Gaming

By Hugh Langley More details about Pokemon Go have been released, including some new screenshots, giving us a better idea of how the game will work. Details so far have been scarce, and just when we thought Niantic was about to spill the beans at GDC, it cancelled its talk. But today the Pokemon Company…

By Duncan Geere Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect peripheral never quite took off as the future of gaming, but it’s proving enduringly popular among scientists as a low-cost imaging device. In the past we’ve seen it used to study glaciers and asteroids, for shopping analytics, in supermarket trolleys and even keeping peace on the Korean border. Now,…

By Hugh Langley Rockstar had plans to make Grand Theft Auto: Tokyo, and even carried out a reference trip for the game, techradar has learned. Rockstar visited the Japanese capital several years ago to assess its potential for a full GTA game, but ultimately pulled the plug on the idea, according to a source close…

By SJ Azar Sony is standing up to its ever-growing competition among phone and tablet games, and it’s going as far as forming a new company that’ll bring PlayStation titles and characters to mobile devices. ForwardWorks, revealed as the name of the new branch in a press release, will cater to “users with opportunity to…

By Nick Pino If Nintendo wanted to keep its next system under wraps until E3 2016, it’s not doing a very good job. First, two patent documents slipped out on NeoGAF that painted a vivid picture of how the system would work before a marketing partner outed the system’s features. Then, Nintendo watchdog Dr. Serkan…

By Jeremy Laird Apple GPU It’s long been rumored that Apple plans to start doing its own graphics hardware. Today it was reported that the company is in talks to buy Imagination Technologies, the company behind the PowerVR graphics tech currently found in iPhones and iPads, before Apple stamped out the fire. Still, Apple did…

By Nick Pino Like the real known universe, the Lego universe just keeps on expanding. Today, TT Games unveiled the first gameplay video for the fifth entry in its Lego Star Wars Saga, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The trailer shows off a few new gameplay modes – space combat and first-person shooter mode…

By TechRadar Deals The PS Vita is a brilliant handheld gaming console, certainly the most powerful and graphically impressive handheld ever. Hardcore gamers with cash to spend should feel confident in snapping this monster up and fire up some of the big launch games with great haste. For anyone else, it’s a case of working…

By Parker Wilhelm Rocket League has apparently cracked the code on pitting PS4 and Xbox One players against each other. So we can all go home, now, right? Not so fast. Developer Psyonix said that the final decision to make this dream a reality is up to Sony and Microsoft. Jeremy Dunham, vice president at…

By Cameron Faulkner Nintendo will be announcing its next home console, codenamed the Nintendo NX, later in 2016. But, in preparation for what’s coming next, a report suggests that 2016 could also bring about the halt in production of Nintendo’s current console, the Wii U. While it’s definitely not uncommon for a company to phase…

By Cameron Faulkner Nintendo will be announcing its next home console, codenamed the Nintendo NX, later in 2016. But, in preparation for what’s coming next, a report suggests that 2016 could also bring about the halt in production of Nintendo’s current console, the Wii U. While it’s definitely not uncommon for a company to phase…

By Hugh Langley Sony has announced that it is closing Evolution Studios, the developer of Driveclub and the MotorStorm series. It’s more bad news for the industry, coming just days after Microsoft announced it’s to shut Fable developer Lionhead. Half of the Evolution studio was laid off in 2015 following Driveclub’s rocky launch, but today’s…

By Hugh Langley Sony has announced that it is closing Evolution Studios, the developer of Driveclub and the MotorStorm series. It’s more bad news for the industry, coming just days after Microsoft announced it’s to shut Fable developer Lionhead. Evolution studios saw significant layoffs in 2015 following Driveclub’s rocky launch, but today’s announcement is a…

By Darren Allan Aorus has launched a pair of gaming laptops packing slim and light chassis designs paired with meaty GPUs under the hood. Called the Aorus X5S v5, the first of the two is a spin on the Aorus X5 that launched at CES 2016. It boasts a 4K 15.6-inch display with a 3,840…

By Darren Allan Aorus has launched a pair of gaming laptops packing slim and light chassis designs paired with meaty GPUs under the hood. Called the Aorus X5S v5, the first of the two is a spin on the Aorus X5 that launched at CES 2016. It boasts a 4K 15.6-inch display with a 3,840…