Gaming

By Hugh Langley No Man’s Sky has been delayed, but it’s unclear how much by. The news was first reported to Kotaku and confirmed by two independent sources to TechRadar. Hello Games’ title was set to arrive on June 21 in the US and June 24 in the UK. Kotaku’s sources believe the game may…

By Joe Osborne PC gaming is expensive enough – especially when all you might have room for is a gaming laptop. HP has finally come around to this widespread attitude with a fresh take on its classic Omen line of gaming notebooks and desktops. The firm is keeping it simple (enough) and approachable this year,…

By Lewis Leong Pokémon Go, the hotly anticipated augmented reality mobile game, is now ready for testers in the US. Niantic Labs, a game maker that used to be a part of Google, announced today that Pokémon Go is available to download for those who signed up to be testers. The company is also currently…

By Hugh Langley Microsoft has multiple new Xbox devices in the pipeline, according to Kotaku and one other insider, but won’t reveal the “Xbox Two” until next year. Brad Sams, a Microsoft blogger with a track record of inside knowledge, claims several devices are in the works, two of which will be revealed at E3…

By Parker Wilhelm Making good on a promise from earlier this year, the soccer/racing phenomenon Rocket League opened the floodgates on cross-network play between PC and Xbox One. Rocketeers on the two platforms began intermingling as of 3pm PT/6pm ET/10pm BST today. Once the necessary patch is applied, players can also choose to opt in…

By Hugh Langley Have you heard the news? Card games are big business. As is toys-to-life, unless you’re Disney. But what happens when the two come together? The answer is Skylanders Battlecast, Activision Blizzard’s new battle card game, which takes many of the principles of Hearthstone and applies them to the Skylanders universe. Unlike Hearthstone,…

By Jon Porter This year, for the first time, E3 will be hosting a public event in Los Angeles, the ESA has confirmed. The event, called E3 Live, is free to attend, and is a three-day event held between June 14th and June 16th. Meanwhile the ‘real’ E3 2016 remains a press-only event, and runs…

By Hugh Langley A software update for the Oculus Rift, designed to clamp down on piracy, has backfired. It’s actually made it easier. The Revive hack let people play Oculus-exclusive games on the HTC Vive by circumventing restrictions, before Oculus responded with a DRM update that prevented it from working. But Revive has found a…

By Jon Porter A YouTube video has been released showing Steam’s Linux client running on Sony’s PlayStation 4. The video shows creator OsirisX browsing the Steam library before launching into the game Bastion, which is then shown running at what appears to be full-speed. Other Linux games are said to also run well, albeit with…

By Parker Wilhelm Minecraft may be an inescapable household game around the world, but the billion-dollar gaming phenomenon has actually missed out on the world’s most populated country until now. Minecraft developer Mojang announced today that its blocky blockbuster will finally be coming to China, courtesy of a licensing agreement with Chinese internet affiliate NetEase,…

By Lewis Leong Step into the Razer zone Razer has always done things its own way. Now, the iconic gaming company is opening its first-ever store in the United States, located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, inside the Westfield shopping mall. Razer invited us to check out the store before its official launch…

By Hugh Langley Hideo Kojima’s first post-Konami game will use a third-party engine, he has revealed. After he “left” Konami, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima went on a world tour visiting studios like Crytek, Guerrilla and Media Molecule. All we knew at the time was that he was searching for something, but now we know…

By Darren Allan Following on the hellishly-hot heels of the Doom reboot, there are potentially plans to resurrect the original Quake. ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda and id Software, has posted a number of job listings which point to the fact that a reimagining of Quake could possibly be on the cards. Techspot…

By SJ Azar Get your sea captain’s hat and harpoon at the ready, Far Harbor is the latest and biggest DLC in the Fallout 4 universe and it’s ready to play today. Bethesda released the add-on at midnight and it’s looking like the island adds a huge area to explore, with new weapons, armour, monsters…

By Jon Porter Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has confirmed that a remastered version of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City will be coming to PS4 and Xbox One on July 26. The two games were originally released for PS3 and Xbox 360 and used the Unreal Engine 3, but this new bundle will see…