Gaming

By Ben Stinson Introduction Whether your preferred weapon of choice is an MP5 or a plasma assault rifle, the extensive list of shooters on the PC has an epic history that stretches right back to ID Software’s Hovertank 3D – a predecessor to Wolfenstein and Doom released in 1991 by the (now) legendary ID Software.…

By Henrietta Rowlatt Introduction A crazy place at the best of times, the internet has given birth to a plethora of PC peripherals that are capable of all manner of things — like simulating realistic bullet damage in Call of Duty, or providing you with an ultra-realistic controller for your train sim. (All aboard!) We’ve…

By Henrietta Rowlatt Introduction There’s no denying it – PC gaming is the elite of all gaming. Hardware is at the top of its game (and price range), the games look their absolute best. To top it all off there’s the infinitely customizable element of the platform. But friends, it’s time to vent. Letting off…

By Parker Wilhelm Nintendo will be making its mobile versions of Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing free to download, relying instead on in-app purchases to monetize the two franchises’ leap to smartphones. The company’s choice to go free-to-play was shared by Isao Moriyasu, Chief Executive for DeNA – the company developing the mobile games for…

By Jon Porter Firaxis has announced Civilization VI, the next entry in its long-running Civilization series, which first appeared a quarter of a century ago. The sixth game will fundamentally change the way cities operate within the world, for the first time allowing cities to expand across the map. In previous games cities would remain…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Although we spend our time delving into the latest tech trends here at TechRadar, the majority of us aren’t master gaming PC builders. But we do love a challenge, and there’s nothing more satisfying than concocting a pixel-crunching battlestation out of a basket full of parts and a heady dose of…

By Ben Stinson Introduction Few genres manage to unite people from all walks of life like a good racing game. Whether your preference is for outlandish fun or intense realism, the vast collection of racing titles available for PC is sure to offer something that gets your pulse racing and your cheeks aching. In 2016…

By Dan Griliopoulos Introduction We love zombies in our games. Whether you see them as hunks of flesh waiting to be put out of their misery, humans waiting for a cure, or a metaphor for some negative aspect of society, the one thing we can all agree on is that they make fine enemies for…

By Jon Porter EA have announced that Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will be released in 2017 featuring content from the new Star Wars movies. With Rogue One set to release later this year we can only hope that the comments from Blake Jorgensen, EA’s CFO, refer to this movie in addition to last year’s The…

By techradar Introduction While we might remember a game’s sprawling levels, high-powered weapons or snazzy graphics every so often, it’s the characters that tend to stick in our heads. Whether it’s empathy for a protagonist or pure disdane for an immoral baddie, our feelings toward them are often subsconsciously based on our own life experiences…

By Dan Griliopoulos Introduction There’s a whole lot of space out there. An infinity of it. And there are a whole lot of space games to fill it. (Well, not really, as it’s infinity and they’re comprised of indefinitely-large data, and even if they were physical they’re finite – but it’s a metaphor, y’know?) And…

By Parker Wilhelm The Walt Disney Company has put a sudden end to Disney Infinity, discontinuing the “toy-to-life” series and giving up on console games altogether. This surprise move means that all further Disney video games “will transition exclusively to a licensing model,” according to Jimmy Pitaro, Chairman for Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media.…

By Lewis Leong BioWare confirmed today that Mass Effect: Andromeda will be delayed until early 2017. This news shouldn’t come as a surprise as Electronic Arts’ chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen told conference goers in March that the game would be pushed back. Jorgensen said the game would be delayed until EA’s fiscal fourth quarter,…

By Lewis Leong Microsoft is catching up with competing PC gaming platforms by unlocking frame rates of games sold through the Windows Store. The software giant is also enabling AMD’s FreeSync and Nvidia’s G-Sync technologies. Although Microsoft may be bragging about these additions in their press release, the reality is that PC gamers have had…

By Chris Smith Football Manager While another English football season draws to a close, the bi-annual carnage of the transfer window – when clubs are allowed to buy and sell players – will soon resume. As the who-goes-where drama plays out over the summer, there’ll be social media hysteria with fans arguing about players they’ve…