Gaming

By Parker Wilhelm Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but other times it’s just an excuse to show off new tech. This may have been the case for Reddit user sp00kens when they started working on a remake of 2002’s Super Mario Sunshine in Unreal Engine 4. While not a total remake of the…

By Parker Wilhelm Can’t wait for some hardcore parkour in Mirror’s Edge Catalyst? While the sci-fi free-running game isn’t out for three more months, developer DICE has dropped a new trailer to keep us pumped up. Supposedly shot entirely in the game’s engine, the trailer highlights protagonist Faith Connors and her beginnings as a courier…

By Hugh Langley It’s been a long and bumpy ride, but Doom will arrive on May 13, Bethesda has announced. The game, which spent years in development hell before being sent back to the drawing board, is technically the fourth instalment in the influential franchise. The reboot will hit PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and…

By Darren Allan Windows 10 is popular among PC gamers – or at least Steam users, at any rate – and indeed it’s closing rapidly on Windows 7’s market share among users of Valve’s gaming service. New Steam survey results for January which have just been revealed show Windows 7 in the lead with 42.08%…

By Darren Allan Windows 10 is popular among PC gamers – or at least Steam users, at any rate – and indeed it’s closing rapidly on Windows 7’s market share among users of Valve’s gaming service. New Steam survey results for January which have just been revealed show Windows 7 in the lead with 42.08%…

By Mr Biffo It’s been 12 years since Half-Life 2 was released, and nine years since we had any official Half-Life product from Valve; Half-Life 2: Episode Three has become the very definition of vaporware. It was announced officially, expected to follow close on the heels of Episode Two, and then vanished. In the time…

By Mr Biffo It’s been 12 years since Half-Life 2 was released, and nine years since we had any official Half-Life product from Valve; Half-Life 2: Episode Three has become the very definition of vaporware. It was announced officially, expected to follow close on the heels of Episode Two, and then vanished. In the time…

By Hugh Langley The weirdest announcement to come out of Japan so far this year has to be Detective Pikachu, the latest 3DS game from the Pokémon Company which portrays Pikachu as a tiny, coffee-swigging Sherlock Holmes. The game is out now in Japan, and several YouTubers have already uploaded gameplay footage that reveals more…

By Hugh Langley The weirdest announcement to come out of Japan so far this year has to be Detective Pikachu, the latest 3DS game from the Pokémon Company which portrays Pikachu as a tiny, coffee-swigging Sherlock Holmes. The game is out now in Japan, and several YouTubers have already uploaded gameplay footage that reveals more…

By Hugh Langley We can all agree that the best thing George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels gave us was Podracing, but you’ve never seen it like this. CaptainDireWolf has made a playable Podracing map for Halo 5, which is probably the closest we’ll get to a new Star Wars Racer game for a long while…

By Hugh Langley We can all agree that the best thing George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels gave us was Podracing, but you’ve never seen it like this. CaptainDireWolf has made a playable Podracing map for Halo 5, which is probably the closest we’ll get to a new Star Wars Racer game for a long while…

By Hugh Langley Just off the back of its quarterly financials, Nintendo has announced how we’ll be able to get our hands on its first smartphone and tablet app, Miitomo. Miitomo will launch in March for iOS and Android, but you’ll be able to pre-register from February 2016. While Nintendo has already spoken about the…

By Hugh Langley Just off the back of its quarterly financials, Nintendo has announced how we’ll be able to get our hands on its first smartphone and tablet app, Miitomo. Miitomo will launch in March for iOS and Android, but you’ll be able to pre-register from February 2016. While Nintendo has already spoken about the…

By Kane Fulton Introduction What you are about to read is supporting The PC Gamer Weekender, a gaming event set to be staged by techradar’s sister publication PC Gamer on March 5 – 6 in London’s stunning Old Truman Brewery. As a PC gamer, I’m often disappointed that there aren’t many events dedicated to my…

By Parker Wilhelm Changes are coming… Hearthstone is getting a massive update this spring in the shape of a brand new format, shaking up Blizzard’s online TCG more than when Warsong Commander got nerfed — or possibly ever. Just announced on the game’s official blog, the standard Hearthstone experience will soon be bisected into two…