Gaming

By Joe Osborne If you’ve already decked out your gaming PC with the latest hardware and flashy RGB lighting, perhaps you’re missing the final piece to a truly epic setup: your throne. That’s right, you need a PC gaming chair. However, those things tend to be expensive. So, if you’re on a budget, we’ve found…

By Brendan Griffiths Nintendo is finally getting some new NES Classic Mini units into production once again. And better yet, pre-orders are already underway at one UK retailer and for the original price too. So if you paid over the odds for a NES Mini on eBay, you may want to look away now as…

By Emma Boyle After the huge success of Battlefield 1 in 2016 and a break in 2017, the Battlefield franchise will return in 2018 with a brand-new game called Battlefield V (or Battlefield 5 if you’re not ). This time players will go back to WW2 with a range of single-player and multiplayer missions that…

By Emma Boyle Sony may not be making great strides with its PlayStation Vita, but that doesn’t mean the company is giving up on the portable gaming market just yet. Speaking to Bloomberg, the newly appointed head of PlayStation, John Kodera, said that Sony is still experimenting with portable and mobile gaming and that it…

By Henry St Leger As the popularity of the AI assistant extends beyond smart speakers and into every conceivable gadget into your home, the French video game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment has thrown its hat into the ring, with a personalised chatbot designed to enhance your gaming experience. Inspired by a one-off hackathon with Ubisoft employees,…

By Emma Boyle Everyone suspected, the rumors suggested, but now we know: the next addition to the Battlefield franchise is called Battlefield V and it’s going to take us back to the second world war. We know what you’re thinking: Battlefield has taken us there before, hasn’t it? Why would we want to go back…

By Matt Hanson Acer has expanded its range of Nitro gaming desktops with the Acer Nitro 50 series, which are designed to offer “outstanding casual gameplay at affordable prices”, according to the company. So, while they won’t offer crazily-powerful hardware at ridiculous prices, they will give you very good 1080p gaming performance that’s well above…

By Shashank Sharma,Nick Peers,Nate Drake A Linux gaming distro, as the name suggests, is tailored for avid gamers. As such it usually comes bundled with games to play, as well as drivers for graphics cards, games controllers and so forth. There aren’t many Linux distros specifically made for gaming. This isn’t because Linux users dislike…

By James Peckham Want to buy a Nintendo Switch but don’t like the price tag? You may be in luck as Nintendo has just started selling cheaper Switch bundles in Japan. However, there are a few key parts of the package missing. It doesn’t include the TV dock, and it’s thought this is intended for…

By Sharmishta Sarkar Not long after its March launch last year, it was revealed that a GPU exploit in the Nintendo Switch could be used to run unofficial software, like pirated games and homebrew ROMs. Since then, the Switch’s hacking community has grown, and the discovery of a new ‘unpatchable’ exploit last month has only…

By Nick Pino After the highly successful launches of the SNES Classic Mini and Nintendo Classic Mini: NES, the N64 Classic Mini isn’t an if, it’s a when. That when may be fast approaching as Nintendo Ltd., the main Japanese branch of Nintendo, has just applied for a trademark in Japan for ‘N64′. There could…

By Joe Osborne It’s a sad day for video game bargain hunters, as Best Buy has ended its Gamers Club Unlocked program in all of its US stores. The news comes via a leaked email surfaced by Wario64 on Twitter, an account known for countless video game deal scoops. Gamers Club Unlocked entered the world…

By Gerald Lynch,Henry St Leger Just when you thought you’d escaped the Wasteland, the Fallout series drifts back into your life like a radioactive thunder cloud. Fallout 4 was Bethesda Game Studios’ (which also develops The Elder Scrolls series) most successful launch ever, with irradiated Boston proving the perfect setting for the RPG series’ spectacular…

By Emma Boyle We imagine Fortnite developer Epic Games had a pinky raised against its lips when it announced that it’s going to pump $100 million into a series of Fortnite eSports prize pools this year. If you’re wondering why you haven’t seen many official Fortnite competitions around, however, that’s because they’re not really slated…

By Gerald Lynch Five years after it launched, the PlayStation 4 is now entering the end of its lifecycle. That’s according to PlayStation head honcho John Kodera, speaking during Sony’s Corporate Strategy Meeting, which was aiming to set out Sony’s stall to investors for the coming years. While Sony is still very much fully behind…