Gaming

By James Rivington If you were thinking of waiting until Black Friday to grab yourself a hot PS4 deal, you may want to re-evaluate your gameplan. Tesco Direct has just launched a range of PS4 deals that are cheaper than anything we’ve ever seen since the console launched for £349 three years ago. Tesco sent…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Update: At number 16 on our list, we’ve added Darkest Dungeon, a dungeon-crawler RPG that’s ostensibly cutesy on the outside but a tough egg to crack underneath. The idea that Macs can’t do gaming is an outdated one. Sure, you can’t crack open one of Apple’s computers and slot an Nvidia…

By Emma Boyle The 34th annual Golden Joystick Awards are nearly here, and it poses a simple question for you: “What’s the best game you’ve played this year?” It’s a straightforward question, with no tricks to look out for, no hypotenuses to calculate, but there’s little chance your answer will be immediate or easy to…

By Darren Allan Destiny 2 will be coming to the PC, at least if the gaming grapevine is to be believed. As you’re doubtless aware, the original Destiny skipped a Windows version much to the chagrin of PC gamers, only emerging on consoles back in 2014. However, the sequel to Bungie’s online shooter (which is…

By Gerald Lynch Like the idea of an immersive entertainment experience, but not a fan of strapping a set of goggles to your head? Then a new display technology straight out of Japan may be what you’re looking for. Panoworks is looking to give an experience akin to virtual reality without the claustrophobic need to…

By Gabe Carey Linux vs Windows Back in the ’90s, when you couldn’t traverse through a college campus without the violent echoes of heavy metal accompanied by the anxious clicks of a Doom death match, Microsoft reigned king over PC gaming. At the time, using an operating system other than MS-DOS was today’s equivalent of…

By Emma Boyle That time of year is rolling around again – FIFA 17 release day. This year you can get your hands on the title from September 29 in the UK and we’ve rounded up the cheapest places to go about doing so. The game is being released in three editions: Super Deluxe, Deluxe,…

By Gerald Lynch It’s the stuff of pub-chat legend (and often makes for a good Twitter laugh for those that follow football’s pros), but the way EA rates its player stats in its FIFA games is often cause for debate. With the release of FIFA 17, it’s now trying to clear up exactly how each…

By Jon Porter After a brief stint on the Xbox One store, the N64 emulator catchily named Win64e10, has been removed from sale. Although available on the marketplace, the emulator was never officially displayed as it had not been approved by Microsoft, but users were able to find the app by searching for its name…

By Parker Wilhelm Peripheral maker 8Bitdo is taking “old-school” to a logical extreme by making a universal game controller that not only looks like Apple’s old logo – down to the neon green leaf covering the charging port – but even works on your ancient Apple II computer. The company’s AP40 controller takes 8Bitdo’s line…

By Emma Boyle September 26 2016 marks the 20th birthday of the Nintendo 64 console…well, its North American birthday anyway. Despite launching three days earlier than originally planned, with only two games to choose from, the console was a massive commercial and critical success, which had a lot to do with its library of wonderful…

By Darren Allan Mojang has announced that a major update for Minecraft on Windows 10 and the Pocket Edition will be arriving in the middle of next month, bringing with it a raft of new customisation options in the form of add-ons, and improved VR on the PC thanks to added support for the imminent…

By Damien McFerran N64 Pad Whenever you pick up a joypad these days, one thing is common – the presence of analog control. It’s impossible to imagine playing a modern game without this level of precision, but it’s easy to forget that two decades ago digital control was the norm. The system that changed everything…

By Jon Porter Microsoft’s senior Xbox director, Albert Pinello, has told TechRadar he finds Sony’s decision not to include a 4K Blu-ray drive in its first 4K console, the PS4 Pro, “surprising”. Asked what he thought had driven Sony’s decision to not include a physical drive, Pinello said: “I would say it’s one of the…

By Dan Griliopoulos Introduction There’s a whole lot of space out there. An infinity of it. And there are a whole lot of space games to fill it. (Well, not really, as it’s infinity and they’re comprised of indefinitely-large data, and even if they were physical they’re finite – but it’s a metaphor, y’know?) And…