Gaming

By Hugh Langley The smartwatch has yet to prove itself as a valid gaming platform; developers are trying some interesting ideas, but the watch still hasn’t found its Angry Birds. Perhaps the best thing to do is go back to the start – all the way to 1972, the year that Atari launched Pong, to…

By Patrick Goss Just when you thought that the world had wrung the last dollar out of your gaming sentimentality, Sir Clive Sinclair has involved himself in a funding drive to produce a handheld games console based on his ZX Spectrum. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ will include 1,000 licensed games and a Liquid Crystal…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Due to land on Xbox One on February 17, Rocket League has had sports and racing fans alike hooked since it launched on the PS4 in July 2015. Psyonix has wisely chosen not to tinker with the game’s core gameplay mechanics, instead introducing alternate modes that use game-altering “mutators” to ramp…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Due to land on Xbox One on February 17, Rocket League has had sports and racing fans alike hooked since it launched on the PS4 in July 2015. Psyonix has wisely chosen not to tinker with the game’s core gameplay mechanics, instead introducing alternate modes that use game-altering “mutators” to ramp…

By techradar The PC Gamer Weekender is just around the corner, and it’s been announced that the show will be hosting several gaming tournaments for you to show off your prowess. Tournaments will be held for Street Fighter 5, Rocket League, Dota 2, League of Legends and Hearthstone. There’ll even be prizes up for grabs…

By Richard Cobbett Introduction Speaking as a mature, tax-paying grown-up, I want to complain about a lack of toys. I know. It’s not exactly a political polemic. I’m not even sure it counts as #firstworldproblems. Still, it’s something that’s bugged me in recent months, and one of those mild irritations that’s now developed into something…

By Richard Cobbett Introduction Speaking as a mature, tax-paying grown-up, I want to complain about a lack of toys. I know. It’s not exactly a political polemic. I’m not even sure it counts as #firstworldproblems. Still, it’s something that’s bugged me in recent months, and one of those mild irritations that’s now developed into something…

By Kate Gray Let’s be honest: the only reason any of us are looking forward to the rise of commercially available, financially affordable virtual reality is so that we may break free from the shackles of the boring, never-ending slog that is reality. Maybe our virtual paradise will be a beautiful beach. More likely a…

By Kate Gray Let’s be honest: the only reason any of us are looking forward to the rise of commercially available, financially affordable virtual reality is so that we may break free from the shackles of the boring, never-ending slog that is reality. Maybe our virtual paradise will be a beautiful beach. More likely a…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln First-person experience in vogue Back in the ’90s, when everyone wore brightly coloured trousers and worshipped the cult of Spice, gaming in first-person was split into two very different camps: the first-person shooter (powered by the rocket launchers, shotguns and BFGs of Doom, Quake and more) and the first-person puzzle game. The…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln First-person experience in vogue Back in the ’90s, when everyone wore brightly coloured trousers and worshipped the cult of Spice, gaming in first-person was split into two very different camps: the first-person shooter (powered by the rocket launchers, shotguns and BFGs of Doom, Quake and more) and the first-person puzzle game. The…

By Parker Wilhelm Hot off its Super Bowl 50 appearance, Pokémon is pitting another two teams against each other to settle a 20-year-old debate once and for all: Red or Blue? The theme of the upcoming Splatfest – a regular multiplayer event in Splatoon, where players fight for one of two opposing sides – tasks…

By James O’Malley Move over Mike Bithell, there’s a new face of indie games – Kanye West. The rapper has announced that he has been working on a video game called Only One, after a song he co-wrote with Paul McCartney. So what’s the game about? Well, you might expect a rapper to come up…

By Darren Allan Quantum Break may be coming to the PC, but the bad news is that if you want to play, you’ll need to be running Windows 10. Quantum Break, as you’re likely aware, is a third-person shooter from Remedy (of Max Payne and Alan Wake fame) which is hotly anticipated and made our…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Just when you wrote off a Destiny sequel as a unicorn we’ll never see, Activision and Bungie went ahead and announced that the next chapter is coming in 2017. The news was packed in with several other announcements, but here’s the big one: A full Destiny sequel is coming next year. In…