Gaming

By Brendan Griffiths We’ve tracked down the cheapest 12-month PlayStation Plus deal in the land today over at digital key specialists CDKeys. Sony increased the prices on annual PlayStation Plus subscriptions last summer by a tenner to £49.99, but we can do better than that today. A lot better. Can I add this to my…

By Emma Boyle It’s been one big year for Nintendo, and between the soaring profits, mightily impressive Switch sales, and promises of much more to come, we think the brand will be strutting into this year’s E3. As in previous years, Nintendo won’t be hosting a live on-stage presentation at the E3 show itself. Instead,…

By Emma Boyle Epic Games has seen massive success for Fortnite Mobile since it released on iOS earlier this year. Now, the developer is targeting an even bigger audience with Android and has said it’s expecting the game to launch on the platform come summer (which would be the winter for all of our Australian…

By Kevin Lee Originally slated for the April 2018 Xbox One update, Microsoft is finally adding 120Hz support on its consoles. The May 2018 Xbox One update finally lets users take full advantage of their high-refresh screens. The new 120Hz capabilities should grant users smoother gameplay and faster reaction times, but you’ll actually need a…

By Emma Boyle Like your birthday and Tax Day, every year you can count on the release of a brand new Call of Duty game. Just before the annual rush that is E3, Activision and Treyarch games hosted a community livestream event in Los Angeles which confirmed that this year’s release will be called Call…

By Gerald Lynch No Man’s Sky, the space-exploration sim that promised a near-infinite number of planets to hop around, finally has a release date for Xbox One. After releasing for PC and PS4 in August of 2016, the game will finally hit Microsoft’s console on July 24. Sean Murray, founder of No Man’s Sky development…

By Emma Boyle Microsoft has announced a new Halo game, but before you start getting excited and start putting coins in your Halo 6 pre-order fund, it’s not a new console game. It’s an arcade game. Called Halo: Fireteam Raven, the game was developed by 343 Industries, Raw Thrills, and PlayMechanix. It’s set in the…

By Nick Pino When we heard Valve was making an app version of the Steam Link, we were surprised – shocked, really, that Valve would have the audacity to shrink the hardware it worked so hard on to the size of a mobile app. And yet, here it is, available to download … at least…

By Emma Boyle Since the release of the first Forza Horizon game in 2012, Microsoft has established something of a pattern with its Forza releases. When one year sees the release of a Forza Motorsport game, the next will welcome a new Forza Horizon game. So, with Forza Motorsport 7 having been released in 2017,…

By Emma Boyle Earlier this week, images of what appeared to be a more accessible Xbox controller emerged online. Now, Microsoft has confirmed the images were real and that the controller will go on sale later this year. Called the Xbox Adaptive Controller, the device is intended to be an easy-to-use and affordable way for…

By Cameron Faulkner Gaming company Wonder has been working on a console that merges the best of a smartphone experience with that of a home console. The currently untitled and still-in-development hardware efforts aim high. Wonder told The Verge in an early look that it wants to build “an entertainment ecosystem for gamers and gadget…

By Darren Allan Stalker 2 is underway again, according to the developer, with GSC Game World announcing that the sequel is being worked on and is expected to arrive in 2021. So yes, the not-so-great news is we’ll be waiting a few years yet before we get our mitts on this full-on Stalker sequel –…

By Emma Boyle Announced at Ubisoft’s E3 2017 conference, Skull and Bones is a game that will take players into the Golden Age of Piracy and let them take the helm of their very own pirate ship. When it launches in late 2018, Skull and Bones will be the second of two big pirate titles…

By Gerald Lynch The end is nigh for the PlayStation Vita. Sony has revealed that it is calling time on the production of physical PS Vita game cards, marking a significant end-of-life milestone in the console’s lifespan. In a message leaked to Kotaku, and later confirmed by Sony representatives, it’s stated that Sony’s American and…

By Emma Boyle Gearbox head Randy Pitchford has recently posted some Tweets which suggest that Borderlands 3 won’t be making any appearance at E3 this year. The key tweet was couched in a string of tweets around magic and illusion: The tweets come not long after Walmart Canada seemingly leaked a handful of unannounced games…