Gaming

By David Nield As we brace ourselves for E3 2016 (14-16 June, gaming fans), the speculation is ramping up about what we can expect to see. With the Xbox One trailing Sony’s PS4 in the console race, the pressure’s on Microsoft to come up with something of note. The logical next step is virtual reality,…

By David Nield As we brace ourselves for E3 2016 (14-16 June, gaming fans), the speculation is ramping up about what we can expect to see. With the Xbox One trailing Sony’s PS4 in the console race, the pressure’s on Microsoft to come up with something of note. The logical next step is virtual reality,…

By Kate Gray This year’s E3 will not be a big one for the Nintendo fans. The only playable game at the show will be the new Legend of Zelda, which many of us are certainly looking forward to – but that’s it. Nintendo has moved further and further away from E3 in recent years,…

By Kate Gray This year’s E3 will not be a big one for the Nintendo fans. The only playable game at the show will be the new Legend of Zelda, which many of us are certainly looking forward to – but that’s it. Nintendo has moved further and further away from E3 in recent years,…

By Parker Wilhelm Summer vacation may not necessarily be a thing for everyone playing Grand Theft Auto Online, but they may want still take a few days off of work this June as Rockstar announced the next step for the open-world crimefest. “Further Adventures in Finance and Felony,” the follow-up to December’s “Executives and Other…

By Parker Wilhelm Summer vacation may not necessarily be a thing for everyone playing Grand Theft Auto Online, but they may want still take a few days off of work this June as Rockstar announced the next step for the open-world crimefest. “Further Adventures in Finance and Felony,” the follow-up to December’s “Executives and Other…

By Darren Allan Over at Computex, Aorus has been showing off an addition to its 17.3-inch gaming laptop, the X7 DT, which now boasts an RGB keyboard. The RGB Fusion keyboard is a per-key backlit affair, meaning you can change the color of individual keys. This can allow for all manner of effects, such as…

By Darren Allan Over at Computex, Aorus has been showing off an addition to its 17.3-inch gaming laptop, the X7 DT, which now boasts an RGB keyboard. The RGB Fusion keyboard is a per-key backlit affair, meaning you can change the color of individual keys. This can allow for all manner of effects, such as…

By Brendan Griffiths The PlayStation and the DualShock controller have been best buds for most of the PlayStation brand’s lifespan. Sony has changed little since the introduction of the dual analog design in 1997, instead pushing the iconic controller closer to perfection with each console generation. Over 40 million PlayStation 4 consoles have been sold…

By Darren Allan So you want to get your grubby mitts on the GeForce GTX 1080? Well now you can, as Nvidia’s new flagship card is now on sale. The Pascal-powered graphics card (built on a 16nm FinFET process) is now out online with the Founder’s Edition retailing at £619 (around $905, or AU$1,260) and…

By Darren Allan So you want to get your grubby mitts on the GeForce GTX 1080? Well now you can, as Nvidia’s new flagship card is now on sale. The Pascal-powered graphics card (built on a 16nm FinFET process) is now out online with the Founder’s Edition retailing at £619 (around $905, or AU$1,260) and…

By Darren Allan HP and MSI have both revealed new backpack PCs which are designed for virtual reality gaming on the likes of the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. The idea is to cram a desktop computer powerful enough for VR into a backpack which you can simply wear while gaming, thus avoiding having to…

By Darren Allan Fancy bagging your own .game domain? Well, now you can, as the new Top-Level Domain (TLD) is available for usage for those involved in the gaming community in one way or another. Domain name peddler Uniregistry is holding court over .game domains and the firm noted that on the first day of…

By Stephen Lambrechts After an interminably long nine-year gestation period, it’s been revealed that The Last Guardian, the latest game from Fumito Ueda (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus), will finally be released this year. In an interview for the upcoming issue of our sister publication, Edge magazine, Ueda stated that “this is the year we…

By Hugh Langley A new live-action video for Deux Ex: Mankind Divided focuses on how the world has changed since the events of Human Revolution – chiefly, how technology has ruined everything. The video shows how tensions between augmented and non-augmented humans continued to rise after the Augs briefly turned violent in 2027. The widening…