Gaming

By David Nield If No Man’s Sky wasn’t everything you were expecting, then Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida can understand your disappointment, according to a new interview published on Eurogamer. A lot of the criticism of the much-hyped game centres around features that were shown off in demos ahead of time but are not…

By Jon Porter and Nick Pino PS5: what does the future hold for PlayStation 5? Previously it was easy to predict what might be coming with the next PlayStation. We could have made a reasonable guess that the PS5 would arrive around six years after the PS4, that it would feature some beefed up internals,…

By Lewis Leong Project Scorpio Console’s are weird right now aren’t they? First we had the rumors, and then the announcement of the PS4 Pro, and in between we had Microsoft’s announcement and release of the Xbox One S, a souped up 4K-lite version of the Xbox One. And next year with Project Scorpio, Microsoft…

By Dave Rudden and Nick Pino The path to the Nintendo NX The Nintendo NX is one of the most intriguing consoles of recent years. Nintendo has unofficially revealed the release date of the console (March 2017), but beyond that we don’t have any concrete information on what form the new box will take. What…

By Aoife Wilson and Jon Porter New Xbox The Xbox One S has just arrived, bringing with it 4K upscaling and HDR to Microsoft’s console, and Project Scorpio is set to arrive next year with native 4K content, and much beefier internals. It’s all starting to make us wonder, when will we eventually see an…

By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, Nick Pino and Jon Porter Introduction As gamers we can find it easy to get obsessed about the future. We’re bombarded by trailers and screenshots of the next big thing, and it can be easy to forget what a huge number of games we already have access to. The best Xbox One…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln The future of Xbox One With both E3 and Gamescom under our belts, and the hysteria of the winter games release season about to lay waste to our bank balances, we’ve had a little time to sit back and digest all those new games Microsoft and Sony rammed down our throats with…

By Parker Wilhelm Looking for a crafts project this weekend? How about building an arcade cabinet small enough to fit in a cup holder? Top-tier tinkerers at Adafruit put together the world’s smallest arcade machine – complete with the ability to emulate classics such as Donkey-Kong, Pac-Man, Xevious, Gauntlet, and Tempest. The itty-bitty cabinet is…

By Orestis Bastounis Introduction Update: A new hotness in the Origin Millennium has kicked Acer’s Preadtor G3-605 off the list. See why below. PC gaming is currently in better shape than it has been for years. Software sales are up, developers now take both the platform and players more seriously and innovative form-factors like the…

By Emma Boyle Microsoft has launched a brand new exciting program for Xbox and Windows 10 this week called Play Anywhere. Xbox Play Anywhere might sound like a fairly dismissive title – “So, where can I play?” “We don’t know, anywhere we guess” – but it’s actually a pretty big deal for gamers with both…

By Darren Allan Logitech has just purchased Saitek, the company known for its seriously heavyweight flight (and space) sim controllers and accessories, for $13 million (around £10 million, AU$17 million). While Logitech already makes steering wheels for driving games, in a blog post, the company notes that it wants to expand into the wider simulation…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Update: After nearly twelve years, you may finally have a reason to play World of Warcraft. Check number 38 to find out why! With the gap in graphical capabilities widening every day between console and PCs, there’s never been a better place to play than on your own custom machine. Unlike…

By Darren Allan Want to know how powerful Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be? Well, handily enough the spec of the juiced-up 1080 has been leaked. According to the spillage of details which was spotted by OC3D thanks to a denizen of its forums, the GTX 1080 Ti will allegedly run with a base…

By Jon Porter Voting for this year’s Golden Joystick Awards, the only gaming award show where the winners are chosen by the gamers, is open now. 2016 marks the 34th year of the Golden Joysticks, which feature 25 voting categories including ‘Best Original Game’, ‘Best Visual Design’ and ‘Studio of the Year.’ 21 of the…

By Nick Pino Xbox One S vs PS4 Deciding between a PS4 and a standard Xbox One wasn’t easy. They both had a library of awesome exclusives, both played Blu-rays, both had access to Twitch, Netflix, Amazon Instant and HBO and both had equally great online services – I hate to say it, but they…