Gaming

By Paul Taylor Xbox One X and One S owners will soon be able to enjoy a luxury that PC owners have had for the last three years. AMD and Microsoft have announced that the two higher-end Xbox One consoles will both get Radeon FreeSync support from Q2 this year. Xbox One X review FreeSync…

By Emma Boyle Now that the final beta for Sea of Thieves has closed, fans (many of whom just had their first taste of the game) will be waiting until March 20 until they can play the game again. However, to keep the hype alive, Xbox and Rare have revealed a pre-launch competition that’s very…

By David Nield A couple of days ago we heard that Fortnite was expanding its reach to mobiles with iOS and Android support, and planning to allow opt-in cross-play between mobile devices and consoles. Now we’ve got a bit more clarification on what that means – and there’s good and bad news for gamers. First…

By Emma Boyle National Mario Day is coming up and if you weren’t sure how to celebrate, Nintendo is giving you an option by slashing the price of its mobile game Super Mario Run by 50%. That means you’ll be able to pick up one of Nintendo’s more popular mobile ventures for $4.99/ £4.99/ AU…

By Emma Boyle Not content with its growing popularity on consoles and PC, Epic Games has announced that its battle royale hit Fortnite is also coming to iOS and Android mobile devices. Whether you’re on a phone or a tablet, Epic has said this will be the “same 100-player game you know from PlayStation 4,…

By Nick Pino “Nintendo just teased Super Smash Bros for Nintendo Switch.” It’s a phrase game journalists have been waiting to write, well, since the unveiling of the Nintendo Switch two years ago, and now we can finally write it. The unveiling happened during the company’s March 8 Nintendo Direct which was supposed to focus…

By Emma Boyle A recent patent suggests that Nintendo Labo is only the beginning when it comes to Nintendo Switch peripherals. Filed by Hitoshi Yamazaki in August 2017 and made public in March 2018, the patent depicts a range of ‘extended input devices’ which would be powered by various aspects of the hardware, such as…

By Rounak Jain Asus Republic of Gamers has announced the launch of the Strix GL702ZC gaming laptop in India, at a price of Rs 1,34,990, exclusively on Flipkart. The Strix GL702ZC is the world’s first gaming laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 octa-core processor and comes with AMD’s FreeSync technology for fluid gaming performance. Commenting on…

By Joe Osborne If you logged into your computer on March 7 to get into some virtual reality (VR) shenanigans with your Oculus Rift, you were probably met with some major disappointment. Rather than being able to jump into VR, Oculus Rift owners around the world were greeted with a dialog preventing them even using…

By Emma Boyle Every year we can usually mark the passage of time with some pretty predictable events: Christmas, Easter, Halloween, our birthdays and the release of a new FIFA. Though it hasn’t been officially revealed just yet, we can be fairly sure that 2018 will bring us the release of FIFA 19. We’ve seen…

By Andrew Williams Sony has kicked off a new sale on PSN. This time the discounts focus on “Only On PlayStation” exclusives, including classics like Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End for PS4. PlayStation Network’s Deal of the Week is Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles Edition, reduced from £54.99 to £29.99. Not…

By Emma Boyle It’s not long at all until the March 27 release date of Far Cry 5. This time the series will take players to Hope County, a fictional area in the very real US state of Montana. The area has been taken over by a cult known as The Project at Eden’s Gate,…

By Emma Boyle Over the past few years Microsoft has worked hard at increasing transparency with its Xbox fanbase, and its next step in improving this dialogue is to launch a new Xbox-focused web series called Inside Xbox. The first episode will be shown on Saturday March 10 at 12pm PT/ 3pm ET/ 8pm GMT…

By Emma Boyle For a long time, Nintendo hasn’t been a gaming company that touts the latest and greatest technology to sell its hardware. While Sony and Microsoft vie for the 4K crown with the powerful PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X, for example, Nintendo has announced a DIY cardboard accessory for the Nintendo…

By Stephen Lambrechts Bringing a slew of innovative features to Xbox One consoles, Microsoft’s new Spring update has started rolling out to members of the Xbox Insiders Program today, and is expected to become available to everyone in the near future. We’ve known for a while that Xbox One X and Xbox One S consoles…