Gaming

By Joe Osborne Move over, Watson – if you haven’t already. Nvidia has just unveiled the DGX-1, the “world’s first deep learning supercomputer” built on the firm’s newly announced Pascal architecture. Designed to power the machine learning and artificial intelligence efforts of businesses through applying GPU-accelerated computing, the DGX-1 delivers throughput equal to that of…

By Parker Wilhelm PlayStation 4 owners will have to make sure they can connect to PSN tomorrow, as the console’s 3.5 update is set to launch with a list of new tools built for playing in groups, on your own, or even on a computer. Codenamed MUSHASHI, the update detailed in Sony’s blog puts a…

By Stephen Lambrechts For fans of the Uncharted series, the idea of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End being its swansong is a hard pill to swallow, but rest assured – Developer Naughty Dog is making sure that the franchise goes out with a bang. Speaking with developer Arne Meyer on the studio’s biggest game to…

By Joe Osborne During Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference, the firm came out with an updated Windows 10 installs figure of 270 million since launch, its fastest operating system (OS) adoption rate ever. But, there’s one group of people with which the OS is already on top: PC gamers. Valve, the company behind PC gaming service…

By Kane Fulton As first-person shooter aficionados are all too aware, camping is seriously frowned upon online. At the Insomnia gaming festival, on the other hand, it’s actively encouraged. Not the kind where you crouch in the corner of the map waiting to ambush people, of course, but the sleeping-in-a-tent variety. Currently held at the…

By Nick Pino When it came out in 2009, Uncharted 2 garnered universal praise. It was lauded for its massive set-pieces, great voice acting and diverse environments. Interestingly, these environments would have been very different had the team followed through with its plans to make Uncharted 2 about Thor’s Hammer instead of a fabled city…

By Nick Pino This has been a long time coming. I can finally say that I’ve tried Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End’s single-player mode. That might not sound like much of an accomplishment but, given the months of setbacks the developers at Naughty Dog have gone through, I can’t help but feel a bit relieved…

By Cameron Faulkner Dark Souls 3 review In Dark Souls 3, death paves the way for progress. In that regard, it’s business as usual for fans of FromSoftware’s sleeper-hit series. But digging deeper into its core, it’s the boldest, most approachable game that the company has ever created. For those who haven’t yet dipped their…

By Gareth Beavis The long, long set-up I sat there, staring at my desktop PC. It’s too old to run VR, I was sure of that – it’d be getting ready for its first day of high school were it a child. I came to the conclusion that I’d probably only have to upgrade the…

By Dan Griliopoulos Introduction Rollercoasters have been part of gaming’s heritage since the earliest days, back as far as 1983’s 3D Crazy Coasters on the Vectrex. But VR’s inherent sense of presence makes the managed terror of roller coasters all the more impressive. It also has the added, uh, ‘bonus’ of sometimes inducing exactly the…

By Nick Pino Xbox Chief Phil Spencer couldn’t care less that Sony plans on updating the PS4 in 2016. At a roundtable held at Microsoft’s Build Developer Conference this week, Spencer made it clear that when Microsoft makes another system, you can be sure it will be a true “upgrade.” “I’m not a big fan…

By Nick Pino Quantum Break review The story behind Quantum Break is as interesting as the game itself. Introduced at the Xbox One reveal event in May 2013, the first unveiling of Quantum Break painted it as this nebulous think-piece of a game that promised TV-quality, live-action video inside of a sci-fi, third-person shooter. To…

By Dan Griliopoulos Introduction Why worry about the physical realm when you can become an electronic God in a VR universe? You know – a bit like the Lawnmower Man without the old-fashioned phone ringing thing. You may find yourself subsisting on a diet of electrons and ambrosia-pixels, having escaped your fleshy form, and thrown…

By Dan Griliopoulos Introduction Microsoft’s competitors have multiplied suddenly. Back in Bill Gates’ heyday, it only had to worry about IBM and then Apple – and neither of them became big threats to its core OS-bundling business. But as that market has shrunk and faded, rivals have come to attack every part of the company’s…

By Mr Biffo What you are about to read has been written by Mr Biffo, the creative force behind the 90s Teletext videogames magazine Digitiser. He now runs the show at digitiser2000.com. Virtual Reality, then. I wasn’t sold. I mean, I was there back in the day. Back when Virtuality arcade machines were our only…