Gaming

By Kane Fulton Doom is back, and you’ll be able to dive into the Closed Beta on May 13 if you’re the lucky owner of a code. If you believe in making your own luck, pre-ordering Wolfenstein: The New Order before May 26 will snag you one. Those planning to play the gore-geous FPS on…

By Hugh Langley The Luchador Pikachu stands upon the ring post as he beckons the crowd into a frenzy, the soundtrack to my demise. Yeah, his wrestling mask is cute, but he’s got a look in his eyes that says this little guy, this once-friendly yellow bastard I rescued from the Viridian Forest in Pokémon…

By Hugh Langley The Luchador Pikachu stands upon the ring post as he beckons the crowd into a frenzy, the soundtrack to my demise. Yeah, his wrestling mask is cute, but he’s got a look in his eyes that says this little guy, this once-friendly yellow bastard I rescued from the Viridian Forest in Pokémon…

By Kane Fulton Nvidia has updated its GameWorks software development kit with three new tools designed to help developers make games look more life-like than ever before. If you’ve played games such as GTA V on newer Nvidia GPUs in recent years, you’ve no doubt noticed GameWorks-related graphics options such as Percentage Closer Soft Shadows…

By Kane Fulton Nvidia has updated its GameWorks software development kit with three new tools designed to help developers make games look more life-like than ever before. If you’ve played games such as GTA V on newer Nvidia GPUs in recent years, you’ve no doubt noticed GameWorks-related graphics options such as Percentage Closer Soft Shadows…

By Duncan Geere It’s over. Mankind has been defeated by the very robots it helped create. Over the past week, an artificial intelligence took on humanity’s greatest champion and returned victorious. In this case, the battlefield was the ancient Chinese game of Go rather than a muddy meadow. But the result could end up being…

By Duncan Geere It’s over. Mankind has been defeated by the very robots it helped create. Over the past week, an artificial intelligence took on humanity’s greatest champion and returned victorious. In this case, the battlefield was the ancient Chinese game of Go rather than a muddy meadow. But the result could end up being…

By James O’Malley There may not be a console installment of Assassin’s Creed coming this year, but there’s going to be plenty to keep fans of the franchise busy. Ubisoft has just announced at GDC that the company will be releasing a VR ‘experience’. According to Polygon, the ‘experience’ – definitely not ‘game’ – will…

By James O’Malley There may not be a console installment of Assassin’s Creed coming this year, but there’s going to be plenty to keep fans of the franchise busy. Ubisoft has just announced at GDC that the company will be releasing a VR ‘experience’. According to Polygon, the ‘experience’ – definitely not ‘game’ – will…

By James O’Malley Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) has revealed a short trailer for an experimental new game for HTC’s Vive Virtual Reality headset. The company is calling it a “cinematic virtual reality experiment”, and it is coming directly from the company’s “ILMxLab” – a skunkworks designed to experiment with new immersive technologies. In other…

By SJ Azar System Shock is coming back. Night Dive Studios has just release pre-Alpha gameplay footage of the re-mastered 1994 game and we’re excited and simultaneously terrified about space all over again. Released originally by Looking Glass Studios and produced by games maven Warren Spector, the first-person shooter set aboard a spaceship somewhere in…

By Nick Pino Twitch has always excelled at showing gamers the latest video games, but soon it might just be the best place to play them, too. On the first day of the 2016 Games Developers Conference, Twitch has debuted three new browser-based games that it helped develop that will enable broadcasters and their audiences…

By Darren Allan AMD is going to send its dual-GPU Radeon Pro Duo graphics cards to developers at universities, so they can get to work on producing (and enjoying) virtual reality (VR) content. The company has partnered up with Crytek (of Crysis fame) for the scheme, known as the VR First Initiative, which envisions VR…

By Farrha Khan Ever wanted a try a mobile game out before having to install or even buy it? Well, Google’s got you covered with a whole new search feature that will let you demo a game before you ever go into the Google Play Store. It’s actually a new ad feature announced today with…

By Nick Pino PlayStation Vue has been evolving ever since its launch. It started life as a passion project, exclusive to the PS4 and PS3, before expanding to iPad and, eventually, all of iOS and Amazon Fire TV. Now Sony’s live TV service is making a nation-wide debut, growing immensely from the seven cities it…