Gaming

By Jon Porter and Hugh Langley Single-player campaign review It might sound silly given its insane levels of violence, but Id Software’s newest Doom is actually a remarkably clever game. It returns to the roots of what made the franchise great in the early 90s, but it does so with some mechanical tweaks that tighten…

By Hugh Langley EA decided against putting a campaign in Star Wars Battlefront so it could ship the game in time for The Force Awakens, the company has revealed. You’ll recall that Battlefront was released close to the seventh Star Wars movie, but it was a tie-in that cost the game an all-out single player…

By Kane Fulton Introduction ESports has turned into the rebel of the entertainment world in recent years, skulking around like a moody teenager tanked up on Mountain Dew. The scene is becoming infamous for players breaking their contracts, taking performance-enhancing drugs and generally testing their sponsors’ patience. And they’re the well-behaved ones. Those controlling the…

By Lewis Leong Nearly one million unused Xbox gamertags will be up for grabs this Wednesday, May 18. Microsoft recovered these dormant gamertags from players who haven’t used the Xbox Live service in years. According to Ars Technica, a majority of the nearly one million freed names were recovered from a pool of gamertags that…

By Nick Pino How far we’ve come in a decade. In the early aughts, companies celebrated opening an online version of their brick and mortar business. These days, the exact opposite is true. Gaming peripheral manufacturer Razer celebrated such a milestone today when it announced that its first RazerStore, a retail store that lets you…

By Darren Allan Asus has produced a new compact gaming laptop which is pretty thin and comes in a 15.6-inch form factor, but still packs a lot of power into the available space. The ROG Strix GL502 offers a Core i7 Skylake CPU twinned with up to an Nvidia GTX 980M graphics solution with either…

By Hugh Langley Nintendo might be about to make a serious move into the movie business. Nintendo CEO Tatsumi Kimishima said that the game maker is considering the possibility of moving into filmmaking, Japanese newspaper Asahi reports, but it’s not yet decided if this will be a theater or DVD/Blu-Ray type of deal. The news…

By Nick Broughall When Microsoft launched backwards compatibility for the Xbox One last November, there was one slight hurdle: all the games it supported only had a single 360 disc, because the engineers hadn’t yet cracked the code for multi-disc games. That has all changed now, with Microsoft’s Major Nelson confirming on Reddit that the…

By Joe Osborne Total War: Warhammer Preview Now, it’s been nearly 20 years since I last put a tiny paintbrush to a figurine or ran my fingers against the turf of a war game table at a local Games Workshop store. But, after just playing a few hours of Total War: Warhammer, I’m so sucked…

By Joe Osborne Overwatch Q&A Blizzard Entertainment is one of PC gaming’s stalwarts, responsible for the poster children of some of the most popular genres in the scene. World of Warcraft is to MMO games what Starcraft is to strategy games: the first place your mind goes to. Now, the studio looks to make another…

By Kate Gray Pokémon designs have come a long way in the last 20 years – from the simplistic but cute designs of Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Pikachu to the more complex and occasionally confusing designs of the more recent starters. Where the first-generation designs relied on word recognition (Water type? TURTLE. Fire type? DRAGON.…

By Gabe Carey Back in the ’90s, when you couldn’t traverse through a college campus without the violent echoes of heavy metal accompanied by the anxious clicks of a Doom death match, Microsoft reigned king over PC gaming. At the time, using an operating system other than MS-DOS was today’s equivalent of using a controller…

By Parker Wilhelm We’d think up a better opener than “Hollywood is clearly out of ideas,” but clearly Hollywood is out of ideas as the next mega movies could be based on 36-year-old Atari games. Film adaptations of Missile Command and Centipede are coming to the big screen after Atari struck a partnership deal with…

By Lewis Leong Blizzard is enacting a strict no cheating policy with its upcoming Overwatch multiplayer first-person shooter. Players who are found using hacks, bots, or third-party software to gain an unfair advantage will be permanently banned from the game. Blizzard says this policy is being enforced to “preserve the integrity” of the title. “If…

By Lewis Leong Blizzard is enacting a strict no cheating policy with its upcoming Overwatch multiplayer first-person shooter. Players who are found using hacks, bots, or third-party software to gain an unfair advantage will be permanently banned from the game. Blizzard says this policy is being enforced to “preserve the integrity” of the title. “If…