Gaming

By Jon Porter The PS4 Pro has to be one of the most complicated console’s ever released. We first heard about the new hardware at the beginning of 2016 thanks to a substantial leak of its developer documentation, but we had to wait until September 2016 before it saw an official announcements. That’s not what…

By TechRadar The first time you flew the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars Battlefront; getting the play of the game in Overwatch; Uncharted 4’s car chase. It’s been a great year for gaming moments. But which is the absolute best? It’s a tough question – and you’re needed to help answer it. The Golden Joystick…

By Andrew Williams,Jamie Hinks PC gaming is by no means “affordable”. By the time you blow hundreds on future-proofing your hardware to compete with the upcoming PS4 Pro or Project Scorpio, the games themselves may be financially out of reach. But, who says the best things in life aren’t free? It’s 2016, and no longer…

By Emma Boyle Still regularly playing Pokémon Go? Then here’s some good news! According to a recent collaborative study between Microsoft and Stanford University you might just live longer. In an attempt to determine just how much impact Pokémon Go has had on physical activity, researchers collected data and engine logs from the Microsoft Bands…

By Darren Allan Bethesda has announced that the remastered version of Skyrim which is due out later this month has gone gold, while also revealing the PC system requirements for the game. Unsurprisingly, Skyrim Special Edition is a good deal more demanding than the original, which is five years old now (can you believe?), due…

By Emma Boyle It’s not long now until PlayStation VR is launched to the public and hundreds of thousands of living rooms around the world are about to welcome their very first high-end virtual reality (VR) headset. The thing about high-end virtual reality headsets is that getting them to work takes more than just popping…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln PS4 Pro better than PC PS4 Pro has had the gaming community giddy for months now. With all this talk of HDR and faux-4K and the like we’ve almost abandoned our current-gen love for regular PS4s and Xbox Ones as the allure of new hardware made our eyes grow large and our…

By Darren Allan This problem is nothing new Cross-platform games are wonderful in that, if there’s a hot new game out, everybody gets to play. But, the sad fact is that, when it comes to ports (i.e. converting a game to work on another platform), it’s PC gamers who usually get the pain of experiencing…

By Jon Porter Pokemon Go has been out for several months now, and while the app has progressed a lot in this time – just remember how unstable the servers when it launched – there’s still lots more work to be done. Some of these features are ones that developer Niantic spoke about prior to…

By Parker Wilhelm With the Oculus Touch getting a price and release date, all that’s left for Oculus Rift owners on the fence to consider is simple: What all can I play on it? The library-to-be for the upcoming VR-enabled motion controller is already impressive, with over 30 games in the works. However, as the…

By Nick Pino Oculus and Facebook are ready to bridge the gap between powerful tethered VR systems like the Oculus Rift and mobile headsets like Samsung Gear VR. The prototype of the product, shown off by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg at Oculus’s Connect Developer Conference, is the firm’s first stab at doing just that. The product,…

By Emma Boyle In a welcome turnaround, game publisher Bethesda has announced that the PlayStation 4 versions of Fallout 4 and Skyrim will soon receive mod support and will render in native 4K on the PlayStation Pro console. It was just a month ago that gaming publisher Bethesda announced that two of its most popular…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln Gears of War 4 review Despite a new platform, a new development team and a new-ish set of muscled heroes on its box art, Gears of War 4 isn’t some grand reimagining of the series that helped Xbox 360 go supernova back in 2006. But then again, such a revelation shouldn’t come…

By Jon Porter Pokémon Go fever might have been slowly dying a death thanks to a variety of reasons, but developer Niantic is working hard to bring players back to the game. The latest planned update (as detailed in a blog post) will start to reward players for catching the same low-level Pokémon time and…

By Michael Rougeau Oculus Connect 2016 The Oculus Rift may have started the virtual reality revolution, but recent weeks haven’t been overly kind to the start-up turned multi-million dollar VR headset. Competitors have begun to eclipse it, and a scandal involving its creator hasn’t done the company any favors. Worse, the headset was slow in…