Gaming

By Henry St Leger Starfield is going to be huge for Bethesda. It’s the gaming giant’s first bit of new IP for 25 years and will be a single player game that marks the start of an all-new epic franchise. But just what is the game about? And, more importantly, when will we be able…

By Joe Osborne PC games ported to Mac soon won’t look or perform much worse than they do on their native platform, thanks to external graphics card (eGPU) support from the famed producer of PC game ports on Mac, Feral Interactive. Feral announced during E3 2018 that, starting with the 2015 Rise of the Tomb…

By Matt Hanson As part of TechRadar’s PC Gaming Week 2018, where we celebrate the greatest gaming platform ever, we’ve talked to some of the biggest companies on the planet involved with PC gaming, and they don’t come much bigger than Intel. If you’ve been a PC gamer for as long as we have, there’s…

By Joe Osborne,Matt Hanson,Kevin Lee The fourth annual TechRadar PC Gaming Week is officially here, celebrating our love with a week of in-depth and exclusive coverage of PC gaming from every angle. Join us from today until June 15 for deeper looks into PC gaming software and hardware than you’ve ever seen on TechRadar, whether…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln We’re halfway through 2018 and we’ve already had some incredible games on the good ship PC. We’ve had everything from deep and richly rewarding role-playing titles and triple-A co-op brawlers to some of the best and brightest games from the independent scene. And we’ve still got a whole six months to go.…

By Nick Pino Microsoft threw everything and the kitchen sink at the audience during its E3 2018 keynote. It addressed the elephant in the room – the disparity between Xbox and PlayStation in the number of exclusive titles – by announcing the acquisition of five new studios, and Xbox Chief Phil Spencer even teased the…

By Emma Boyle The big Elder Scrolls news from Bethesda’s E3 2018 showcase may have been the confirmation of Elder Scrolls 6, but it wasn’t the only new announcement in the fantasy franchise. Long before we see Elder Scrolls 6 hit any kind of console, we’ll have Elder Scrolls: Blades. Three years after the successful…

By Nick Pino After a relatively slow Bethesda keynote, executive producer Todd Howard has taken the curtain off the publisher’s next big IP: Starfield. According to Howard it’s a franchise that Bethesda has wanted to develop for years and now has the ability to do it. Unlike Fallout 76, which was also detailed on-stage at…

By Emma Boyle Bethesda has shown that it’s continuing to embrace virtual reality during its E3 2018 presentation by announcing two brand-new VR games for more of its biggest franchises: Wolfenstein and Prey. Prey’s VR release will come later this year and will be called Prey Typhon Hunter. Typhon Hunter VR (for which there will…

By Mark Knapp Bethesda took to the stage at E3 2018, and the developers behind Doom announced a new followup game called Doom Eternal. Unfortunately, details about the game were sparse. 2016 saw the relaunch of the Doom franchise, and the game proved a popular revision to the series. The combat was fast-paced, and the…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln Microsoft wasn’t messing around with this year’s E3 conference – it was out to impress with big exclusives, world premieres and hints at what’s to come next from the Xbox brand (and yes, we do mean the next Xbox console). With no awkward presentations and mostly a flurry of gameplay trailers, we…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Microsoft is developing a new Xbox console, the company’s head of Xbox said on stage at E3 2018 today. “Our hardware team is deep into developing the next generation of Xbox consoles, where we will once again deliver on our commitment to set the benchmark for console gaming,” said Phil Spencer, master…

By Cameron Faulkner Microsoft unveiled three new titles at E3 2018 set in the Gears of War franchise, though it has dropped the “of War” from its name, opting just to call them “Gears” . The biggest unveiling, of course, was Gears 5 and it’s coming to Xbox One and presumably PC, too, in 2019.…

By Mark Knapp Xbox head Phil Spencer had some big news at E3 2018 for Xbox’s exclusive content offerings. Microsoft has acquired five studios to join Microsoft Studios and develop new content. Spencer said Xbox was looking for creative teams and investing in more great content, and this is a sure sign of it. He…

By David Nield It’s the fifth and final day of Sony’s countdown to its big E3 showcase on Monday, and the last reveal is the arrival of Beat Saber on PlayStation VR, having previously been available on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. If you’re not already familiar with Beat Saber, imagine being a Jedi…