Gaming

By Cameron Faulkner Just in time for the winter holidays, Sony has announced a slight, but appreciated, price cut to the PS4. But, there’s a catch: it’s only happening in North America. If you’re in the US or Canada, and looking to buy into the PlayStation family, you’ll be able to do just that for…

By Hugh Langley Sometimes you come across a video game mashup so perfect it makes you question why anyone let Mario and Sonic compete in the Olympic Games. Pokémon Sims is an example of such a game – the chocolate and peanut butter of video games, if you will. The concept comes from the brain…

By Hugh Langley Whistleblower Edward Snowden recently caused a lot of buzz when he joined Twitter, amassing 1.3 million followers in just his first week. Since joining the social network Snowden has talked about surveillance, water on Mars, and the fact he forgot to turn off email notifications, which led to a 47GB dump of…

By Hugh Langley Whistleblower Edward Snowden recently caused a lot of buzz when he joined Twitter, amassing 1.3 million followers in just his first week. Since joining the social network Snowden has talked about surveillance, water on Mars, and the fact he forgot to turn off email notifications, which led to a 47GB dump of…

By Dan Griliopoulos Introduction No-one can agree what an indie game is. Some combination of a small studio, a weird idea and no publisher is the nearest we can get to agreement – but to paraphrase Potter Stewart – you know one when you see it. We’ve picked out the ones we like best and…

By Dan Griliopoulos Introduction No-one can agree what an indie game is. Some combination of a small studio, a weird idea and no publisher is the nearest we can get to agreement – but to paraphrase Potter Stewart – you know one when you see it. We’ve picked out the ones we like best and…

By Hugh Langley All Xbox One controllers will soon have remappable controls, an Xbox exec has revealed. Right now the feature is limited to the Xbox One Elite controller, but Xbox director of program management Mike Ybarra confirmed on Twitter that it’ll be coming to all gamepads “soon”. The Elite controller not only has mappable…

By Hugh Langley All Xbox One controllers will soon have remappable controls, an Xbox exec has revealed. Right now the feature is limited to the Xbox One Elite controller, but Xbox director of program management Mike Ybarra confirmed on Twitter that it’ll be coming to all gamepads “soon”. The Elite controller not only has mappable…

By Kate Gray So. Edge has just published its Top 100 Games Of All Time list. (SIT BACK DOWN, child. You will not be finding any rank-related bitching here. This is a place of calm. Shoo.) Unsurprisingly, said list has caused a bit of a ruckus on the fragile planet that is The Internet, where…

By Kate Gray So. Edge has just published its Top 100 Games Of All Time list. (SIT BACK DOWN, child. You will not be finding any rank-related bitching here. This is a place of calm. Shoo.) Unsurprisingly, said list has caused a bit of a ruckus on the fragile planet that is The Internet, where…

By Nick Pino Physics are a pretty important part of your favorite video games. Right next to graphics and gameplay, they’re one of the most crucial components in a successful title. Any time you’ve ever bumped in a wall in a game, jumped or fell down, you have the physics engine to thank. With that…

By Dan Griliopoulos Introduction Picking the best VR games at the moment is tricky because many of the best VR experiences aren’t the best games, and vice-versa. For example, much as we love Team Fortress 2, you don’t half get motion sick running at the scout’s speed in VR. Other experiences are like hands-off coaster…

By Hugh Langley People do some crazy things in Minecraft – like, really crazy – but I think this is the most impressed I’ve ever been. What you’re looking at above is a giant Game Boy running Pokémon Red, built in Minecraft. “Great,” you say, “Someone modded an emulator into a Minecraft Game Boy. Big…

By Duncan Geere Psychologists studying the effects of different types of games on our minds have discovered that brain training games aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. In fact, there’s huge differences in the positive and negative effects that games can bring – and it turns out that action games have the most positive…

By James O’Malley Sim or game? In the early 1980s Japanese gaming powerhouse Namco was riding high following the huge success of Pac-Man, but the company didn’t stop innovating there. In 1982 it released Pole Position to both arcades and home computer, and the game came to define the driving simulation. It introduced many of…