Gaming

By Jon Porter Pokemon Go might be all everyone’s talking about right now, but weirdly the consensus is that the game itself isn’t that great. People love the experience, they love exploring their local environments, and they love meeting others as they play, but they’re less keen on the game’s mechanics. Part of this is…

By Hugh Langley Earlier this year the internet went into a frenzy over some photos of what was claimed to be the controller for Nintendo’s upcoming NX console. As it turned out, it was an elaborate hoax of two parts: one photoshopped render followed by a physical prototype that was built by a second person.…

By Stephen Lambrechts Though most people seem to be enjoying the heck out of Pokemon GO, with the app receiving an overwhelming amount of press coverage in the week since its release, it’s got its fair share of haters, too. You can count Jamie Farrelly among them, a software developer who, by his own estimation,…

By Andrew Hayward PS4.5 NEO: What we know about PS4K Update: A new report from The Wall Street Journal claims that Sony has not one, but two new consoles coming in 2016. According to a Sony insider, the company plans to unveil both a PlayStation Neo and new PlayStation 4 Slim at the Tokyo Game…

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By Darren Allan Zotac has revealed a pair of GeForce GTX 1060 cards including a new Mini offering designed to fit in small PC cases. The GeForce GTX 1060 Mini (pictured above) is 6.85-inches long (a tad under 17.5cm) meaning it should fit in a Mini-ITX case. Zotac has equipped this model with what it…

By Darren Allan So you want to run Doom with a much faster frame rate? Well the good news is the game now supports Vulkan, a low-overhead graphics API which will put the FPS (frames per second, that is) pedal to the metal. Vulkan (which was built on AMD’s Mantle graphics tech) offers a similar…

By Jon Porter When GTA 5 finally made its way to PC last year it offered a substantial graphical upgrade over its PS4 and Xbox One counterparts. But for one intrepid group of modders, even GTA 5’s PC graphics weren’t up to snuff. They’ve been hard at work creating GTA 5 Redux, which massively overhauls…

By Jon Porter When GTA 5 finally made its way to PC last year it offered a substantial graphical upgrade over its PS4 and Xbox One counterparts. But for one intrepid group of modders, even GTA 5’s PC graphics weren’t up to snuff. They’ve been hard at work creating GTA 5 Redux, which massively overhauls…

By Brendan Griffiths Amazon Prime Day is here and we bet many of you have been holding out for some serious Prime Day discounts on PS4 and Xbox One consoles. Below you’ll find Amazon’s ‘deals of the day’ for Prime members and there some discounts on some tasty console bundles. Naturally, we’ll add in the…

By James Rivington Amazon Prime Day is in full swing but Amazon is not the only online retailer in town! John Lewis is famous for its extra-long warranties and excellent customer service so in many instances it makes more sense to buy big electronics items from John Lewis. The online and highstreet department store has…

By Matt Swider Amazon Prime Day deals 2016 The best Amazon Prime Day deals in the US started at midnight and all of the temporary price drops only last 24 hours through the end of July 12. The good news is that the Deal of the Day bargains list proves to be better in year…

By Stephen Lambrechts If there’s one thing that’s unacceptable in every Pokemon fan’s life right now, it’s the notion of getting a flat smartphone battery right in the middle of an intense Pokemon GO session. Virgin Mobile knows your plight all too well, which is why it’s letting Pokemon GO players recharge their phones at…

By Hugh Langley Update: You might be able to get the Xbox One S at a steep discount when it comes out in August. When asked about if gamers would be able to trade up to an Xbox One S or Project Scorpio, the general manager of Xbox Services, Dave McCarthy told the Daily Star…

By Nick Pino The most disappointing games of the decade When Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune announced that he was creating a spiritual successor to the Blue Bomber that would again pit a young cyborg against a band of renegade robots and, most importantly, that he was going to crowdfund it, the internet lost its…