Gaming

By Parker Wilhelm Gears 4 won’t be an Xbox One exclusive, as Microsoft is bringing the shooter to PC this October – part of a brand new program letting players cross-purchase games across both platforms. Xbox Play Anywhere is Microsoft’s take on allowing cross-buy for PC and Xbox One – a system not unlike Sony’s,…

By Hugh Langley Where were you the day Kinect died? I was watching the Xbox One E3 2016 stream, where Microsoft confirmed its new Xbox One S console won’t have a dedicated Kinect sensor port. If you want to use Kinect on the new console you’ll have to use a separate USB adapter, which seems…

By Hugh Langley Microsoft has confirmed the existence of the Xbox One S, its souped-up new console which packs more power and less bulk. Unfortunately for Microsoft the console leaked just hours ahead of its official reveal, but at least we can now put any lingering doubts to rest. The S is 40% smaller than…

By Jon Porter If you came away from EA’s E3 press conference this year thinking that you’d heard the word ‘Frostbite’ quite a lot, it did come up an awful lot. We got the news that both FIFA 2017 and Mass Effect: Andromeda would be running on DICE’s engine, which was originally produced to handle…

By Joe Osborne Razer, the company known for countless quality gaming mice, headsets and keyboards has had a leg in the virtual reality (VR) for over a year now, but it’s been rather quiet about the whole thing. At E3 2016, Razer’s getting loud about its VR plans with a vastly upgraded and way more…

By Nick Pino Some games, as much as it pains me to say it, just shouldn’t be made. But the Prey 2 I saw four years ago, the one developed by Human Head Studios and featured a human bounty hunter stranded on an alien world, didn’t belong in that category. The details have begun to…

By Kevin Lee If you didn’t think a new Quake game was enough of a bombshell, Bethesda also announced Fallout 4 will debut on the HTC Vive virtual reality headset in 2017. On the E3 2016 stage, Marketing chief Pete Hines explained Fallout 4 would just be the beginning of Bethesda’s virtual reality initiative. Bethesda…

By Parker Wilhelm Bethesda was quick with the news during its second-ever E3 press conference, instantly announcing the return of old-school arena shooter action in the form of Quake Champions. The Quake series makes for Bethesda’s third resurrection of id Software’s long-standing shooter franchises, after Wolfenstein: The New Order and this year’s ever-so-metal DOOM revival.…

By Kevin Lee When DICE first announced it Battlefield 1 was taking the series into a new alternative World War I history, I was delighted in the new direction but at the same time it felt a gimmick on some level. However, after seeing the game in action and its glorious return to environmental destruction,…

By Nick Pino Ah, summer. Bees are buzzing, birds are singing and the largest video game convention in the country, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), is taking over downtown Los Angeles. It’s a beautiful time of the year. The convention kicked off Sunday, June 12 at 1pm Pacific/9pm BST with EA’s untraditional Play community event…

By Joe Osborne Buzz Lightyear would be proud Game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) and developer BioWare tried to let us down easy with the news that the next major entry in the Mass Effect series, Andromeda, wouldn’t release until early 2017 back in May. Now, the duo has come to E3 2016 with yet another…

By Hugh Langley EA’s E3 press conference is over, and thanks to the Titanfall 2 campaign trailer leaking earlier in the day, there weren’t any huge surprises. Even the section dedicated to the publisher’s roster of Star Wars games didn’t reveal an awful lot – except this: Did you miss that? Here it is again.…

By Jon Porter Pictures of Microsoft’s rumored ‘Slim’ version of its Xbox One console have leaked ahead of the company’s press conference on Tuesday, confirming its existence for the first time. Its official name will be the ‘Xbox One S’. We first reported on the existence of this console a couple of weeks ago, but…

By Jon Porter Introduction For many, myself included, E3 is the highlight of the year. New games get revealed, old favorites get sequels, and every half a decade new consoles emerge to make the contents of our collective TV cabinets look tired and outdated once more. More often than not, E3 leaves us feeling excited,…

By Lily Prasuethsut Top 10 E3 2015 moments Another year, another Electronic Entertainment Expo. Before E3 2016 takes over the news channels over the next four days, let’s take one last look at the highs of last year’s show. Could it be? Did E3 2015 actually make everyone a happy gamer? We here at TechRadar…