Gaming

By Emma Boyle These days it seems like Amazon is really trying to add value to its Prime membership program. Faster, cheaper deliveries, video streaming, music streaming and now free games. Yes, that’s right. Free games. If you’re an Amazon Prime member you’ve probably heard about this, but if you set up an account on…

By Gerald Lynch Microsoft is preparing to build a revamped game streaming service that, rather than being exclusive to its Xbox games consoles, would be available to multiple devices and manufacturers, potentially including mobile devices as well as PCs. The ‘Netflix-for-games’ service would charge a monthly fee to gamers to stream a catalog of titles…

By Emma Boyle Microsoft is currently testing its brand new Xbox Live avatars before rolling them out to users in April, according to a recent report from The Verge. First revealed during E3 2017, the new Xbox Live avatars were supposed to be made available to Windows 10 users by the end of that year.…

By Darren Allan There’s some exciting news for those who have a VR headset and enjoy SteamVR games, as Valve has just introduced a new auto-resolution feature which intelligently adjusts the resolution to match the power of your graphics card. The feature is in beta testing right now, but it should be a major boon…

By Emma Boyle When it comes to Battle Royale games, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (or PUBG for those already inducted into its action) is a name you need to know. Over the past year the game has had a stratospheric rise, going from a Steam Early Access title to a full Xbox release, with a massive following…

By Emma Boyle When the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim launched on the Nintendo Switch last year you probably thought that was it. No more. It’s everywhere now, right? Wrong. Bethesda has announced that Skyrim VR will be coming to Steam on April 3 2018 now that its period of exclusivity on PSVR has come to…

By Emma Boyle Splinter Cell may be a stealth video game series but its next possible release is anything but at the moment. On Amazon Canada a listing appeared recently for Splinter Cell 2018 and though it’s since been taken down an eagle-eyed Redditor spotted it and a screenshot lives on. Though the listing didn’t…

By Emma Boyle Microsoft has revealed its plans for E3 2018 in a new blog post on Xbox Wire and this year it’s trying something new. Over the past few years, Microsoft has stuck to a tradition of hosting its press conference in the Galan Center in Los Angeles before opening a huge booth on…

By Nick Pino Virtual surround sound gaming headphones are nothing new. If you’ve tried on a pair of Turtle Beach or Razer headphones in the last decade, you’ve probably heard it. But the problem with these headphones is that the sound isn’t dynamic – no matter how you move your head, you’re going to hear…

By Emma Boyle If the proliferation of 4K games on consoles and PC has left you longing for the simple days of 16-bit action you’ll be glad to know that a Sega Mega Drive collection is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC in a matter of months. The announcement of the collection came via…

By Emma Boyle Joining the likes of PlayStation Plus and Games with Gold, Free Games with Prime is a new service from Twitch that will award its Prime subscribers a handful of free PC games every month. The first wave of games will come on Thursday March 15 and will include Superhot, Oxenfree, Shadow Tactics,…

By Andrew Williams An app for music streaming service Deezer has been released on Xbox One, giving Spotify-hating gamers another way to play music through the console. Deezer arrives just a few months after Microsoft discontinued its own, rather unappreciated, Groove Music service at the end of 2017. The app will let you play music…

By Harry Domanski UPDATE: Sony is having an excellent sale on its bundle, bringing the price to the lowest out of any retailer, so scroll down for more info. As VR slowly crawls towards the mainstream, units such as the PlayStation VR continue to see more impressive price drops and even more impressive dedicated titles.…

By Emma Boyle Almost four years after its first release, Grand Theft Auto 5 is still a regular fixture in video game charts around the world and its sales continue to thrive. In times of uncertainty it’s oddly comforting to see Grand Theft Auto 5 quietly hold its popularity. With Red Dead Redemption 2 coming…

By Emma Boyle There’s a brand new firmware update for the Nintendo Switch available now that should make it a whole lot easier to connect with your friends. Released on March 12, update 5.0 brings a few changes to the system, but the most significant is that you can now add your Facebook and Twitter…