Gaming

By Parker Wilhelm In case you haven’t logged on to Overwatch today, a few changes went live for Blizzard’s colorful team shooter in the name of sportsmanship and cross-brand promotion. In celebration of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Overwatch has undergone an athletic makeover, offering players Olympic-themed content for your favorite hero…

By Darren Allan Nvidia’s fresh take on the Titan X is a massively powerful graphics solution – in fact, we recently called it irresponsibly overpowered – and the good news is that if you want to get in on some seriously high-end gaming, this video card is available now. The short story of the new…

By Brendan Griffiths The new and improved Xbox One S console from Microsoft is here and firing the first 4K shots in the fightback against Sony’s dominant PS4. If you’re looking for the best value Xbox One S deals at launch, you’re in the right place. We’ve already seen the Xbox One S sell out…

By Hugh Langley Pokémon Go’s latest update left players disgruntled after removing some of the game’s key features, including the footprint tracker, and Niantic has finally explained why. Writing on its Facebook page, Niantic gave a few reasons for the recent changes, also explaining why it had requested third-party tracking tools be taken down. Niantic…

By Nick Pino In case you missed it, there’s going to be a new Pokemon game … well, two of them to be exact. Called Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon, they’ll take place in the tropical locale of the Alola region and pack in dozens of new monsters to catch, train and battle. And while…

By Hugh Langley While Niantic is trying to fix all the problems of Pokémon Go, right now the Pokémon Company is distracting us with some more positive news. A new trailer for Pokémon Sun and Moon has just arrived, like a massive Pokemon lorry crushing us beneath a mountain of Poké-rubble, and we’re not sure…

By David Nield The summer update for the Xbox One has been a long time coming but it’s finally here, giving Microsoft’s army of gamers access to the Cortana digital assistant for the first time, as well as bringing with it a bunch of other useful features. Cortana works more or less as it does…

By Gabe Carey Xbox Play Anywhere At E3 2016, it came as little shock that Microsoft would be introducing, for the first time ever, a cross-buy program between Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs. After a year of showing strong support for the Universal Windows Platform, Microsoft’s software consolidation push, it was high time for…

By Hugh Langley Sony has revealed how much space will be required to use PS VR, while a premature blog post has announced that Driveclub VR will be a launch title in Japan. The parameters for using PlayStation VR can be seen on the PlayStation Asia site, recommending that the PlayStation Camera is given a…

By Darren Allan Want to play Minecraft in virtual reality on your Oculus Rift? Well, we’ve got some good news for you – Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 users will soon be able to do so. In a blog post celebrating the fact that Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta is now a year old,…

By Hugh Langley Earlier this year, Eidos Montreal announced a partnership with prosthetics specialist Open Bionics to create bionic arms inspired by the game franchise Deus Ex. The human augmentations of Deus Ex made for an obvious tie-in, but the announcement also brought to light the work Open Bionics is doing to make prosthetics more…

By Jon Porter The world’s first Apple Watch RPG, which was revealed by a teaser site just last week, has been released today. The game, called Cosmos Rings, is available right now at a discounted price of $5.99 (£4.49, AU$9.99) as part of a simultaneous worldwide release. The regular price of the game will be…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Has it already been one year since Windows 10 landed on July 29, 2015? We can remember Microsoft waxing lyrical about its new operating system and the opportunities that it would bring around gaming – from DirectX12 to Xbox streaming. According to the latest Steam survey, just short of 43% of…

By Hugh Langley Bungie has just deployed its last-ever Destiny patch for the PS3 and Xbox 360, as it shifts all its focus to the new-gen consoles. Update 2.3.1 is a minor patch, but other than “emergency fixes for future game-breaking issues”, it’ll be the last that legacy consoles will see. The update has been…

By Joe Osborne Any self-respecting Nintendo fan knows already that several sources have spilled the beans to both Eurogamer and The Wall Street Journal about how the Nintendo NX is expected to work. According to the reports, Nintendo’s forthcoming game console is to be a primarily handheld affair in the same vein of its DS…