Gaming

By Marc Chacksfield Future VR Games Virtual Reality is here right now, but it’s an area of gaming that’s seriously lacking a must-have game. Over the next few months that is set to change. With PlayStation VR launching in October, some six months after the arrival of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the VR…

By Jake Tucker Camden Lock in London always feels like a weird vision of the future. The crowded street food stalls and maze-like atmosphere of the place almost looks the part for a very british version of Blade Runner. We’re here for a slightly different type of sci-fi. Tucked away next to Camden’s The Cuban…

By David Nield With its unmatched complexity (18 quintillion procedurally generated planets in all) and small development team, the much-anticipated No Man’s Sky was always likely to experience one or two bumps along the road at launch, and that’s proving to be the case. Having appeared on the PS4 earlier this week, the PC version…

By Andrew Williams Introduction It may be the opinion of some PC gamers that you aren’t a hardcore player unless you’re rocking a GTX1080 and have a different VR headset for each day of the week. But almost any half-decent laptop made in the last five years can actually play an amazing library of games…

By Nick Pino Worst Pokemon in the original games You love Pokemon. I love Pokemon. We all love Pokemon. And Pokemon love us … well, as much as a collection of inanimate creatures made in Japan can love, probably. And while some of us have been right there since the beginning, capturing each new set…

By Jon Porter THQ as a brand has been dead for several years now after it went into liquidation in 2012, and although the following years saw its remaining games released through a variety of other publishers the THQ name has remained silent. That’s all set to change though with the rebranding of Nordic Games…

By David Nield The blocky world-building fun of Minecraft seems like a natural fit for virtual reality (and augmented reality) but it’s taken a while for Mojang’s massive worldwide hit to make its way to the fledgling platform – two years ago original creator Markus Persson (aka Notch) ditched plans for a VR version after…

By Nick Pino Xbox One S vs Xbox One If you’re thinking about finally entering the next generation of gaming and buying an Xbox, you’re faced with a tough decision: Do you buy the old, reliant workhorse – the original Xbox One – or should you opt for the shiny, 4K-ready Xbox One S despite…

By Jon Porter Following in the footsteps of Sony’s acquisition of game-streaming service Gaikai in 2012, Microsoft has acquired Beam. But unlike Gaikai, Beam’s service has an emphasis on bringing interactivity to watching live-gaming streams. Whereas services such as Twitch allow users to watch passively as game streamers play, Beam’s service allows viewers to interact…

By Jon Porter The ongoing question of whether No Man’s Sky is actually an online game has seen a surprising development with the apparent removal of an online play logo from its box. The news follows the apparent discovery that players arriving at the same planet would not actually be able to meet. Prior to…

By David Nield Bought yourself a shiny new Xbox One S yet? We doubt you’ve done anything as impressive with it as hardware hacker Edward Zarick has: he’s stuffed Microsoft’s slimmed-down console into a laptop shell and added a fold-down screen. It’s not a true laptop – you still need a power supply at all…

By Kane Fulton If you’ve been a gamer for some time, you’ll know that the cost of your favorite hobby has fluctuated throughout the years. In the 80s, it was all about beefy desk-hoggers like the Commodore 64 until affordable consoles such as the NES arrived. PC gaming found its feet in the 90s, while…

By Nick Pino All good things come to an end, and such is the case with the 2TB white Xbox One S. The console, which just went on sale August 2, was a limited launch edition … apparently. Before the console was released, Microsoft had told gamers at E3 that it would produce a 2TB…

By Darren Allan MSI has announced that it’s preparing to unleash a whole host of gaming laptops which will all be VR-ready, even the lower-end models. The company has released some initial details about the notebooks, with a full reveal coming at the start of next week. There will be 11 new models in total,…

By Jon Porter It’s only been one day since the release of No Man’s Sky and two players have already managed what the game’s creator called “incredibly rare” before the game’s release. In the run up to the game’s release the game’s creator, Sean Murray, claimed that, while it was possible for players to meet…