Gaming

By Bill Thomas After E3 2018, we know for a fact that Microsoft is working on the Xbox Two – and Sony can’t be that far off with the PS5. Beyond the fact that the next-generation consoles will exist, however, we don’t really know anything else beyond that. We know of a few games that…

By Joe Osborne Great news, everyone: you can now play GameCube games on your Nintendo Switch – but only with a considerable amount of hacking your console. The Switch can at last run GameCube games through an emulator hosted on a Linux distribution loaded onto the console. The development was made by YouTube user Mizumi,…

By Henry St Leger Fortnite developer Epic has announced the temporary closure of the game’s sandbox mode, Playground, to take place on July 12. Allowing players to test out the game’s controls and building mechanics in a less pressured environment, the new 4-player Playground mode has already fostered a budding crafting community, and offers a…

By Nick Pino Downloading a game from online storefronts like Steam or the Xbox Live Marketplace is the modern equivalent of waiting for your modem to connect to the internet circa 1998: They’re both long, arduous processes that we all know can happen much faster than they do. The good news is that just like…

By Gerald Lynch With it’s detachable controllers and handheld screen, the Nintendo Switch makes for the perfect on-the-go retro gaming machine. And while Nintendo itself is taking its time before bringing its classics to the transforming console, there will be some vintage titles on the way thanks to SNK later this year. The SNK 40th…

By Henry St Leger Bandai Namco’s manga-inspired fighting game, Jump Force, made quite a splash when it was unveiled at E3 2018. But what is Jump Force, who’s actually on the roster, and when is it going to be released? Jump Force is essentially a PvP fighting game featuring manga and anime characters, in which…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln In the hands of any other publisher, an undercooked online infrastructure and a slew of lukewarm reviews would have seen 2014’s The Crew sent on a one-way drive to the scrapheap. But not so with Ubisoft. The French publisher loves a good franchise, so Ivory Tower’s racer returns with a bright new…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Not so great news for PlayStation Vue multi-channel subscribers: your bill is about to go up. Sony announced in a blog post today that it’s raising the price of all of its multi-channel PlayStation Vue plans by $5 starting July 24. That means that if you subscribe to the Access, Core, Elite…

By Matt Hanson Fortnite is currently one of the most popular games on the planet, which means it has inevitably attracted players who cheat at the game by using software. It now appears that pretty much all of those cheating apps contain malware. The team behind Rainway, a game streaming service that lets you play…

By Gerald Lynch There hasn’t been a phenomenon in gaming like battle royale blaster Fortnite in quite some time, with young and old alike jumping into the huge last-man-standing matches on PS4, Xbox One, PCs, smartphones and the Nintendo Switch. But… what if you’re a bit rubbish at it? Enter the newly-released Fortnite Playgrounds mode…

By Gerald Lynch The Xbox One X may currently be the slickest and most powerful console on the market, but the Xbox line’s beginnings were far more bombastic. When the original Xbox console was first revealed back in the year 2000 at the Games Developers Conference, it was far removed from the powerful box it…

By David Nield Epic Games has managed to push Fortnite to mobile phones and the Nintendo Switch but it hasn’t yet been able to roll out Playground Mode. The practice mode for learning the Fortnite ropes has now officially been delayed until next week at least. According to the Fortnite Twitter account, the LTM (Limited…

By Damien McFerran Late last year, developer Panic Button worked wonders by transplanting id Software’s hellish FPS DOOM to the Nintendo Switch. Visual downgrades aside, it was an incredibly accurate conversion of relatively recent AAA shooter, and proof that Nintendo’s system – despite its relative lack of grunt when compared to Sony and Microsoft’s home…

By Henry St Leger Google is reportedly looking at entering the video game market, with a streaming platform set to rival Xbox and PlayStation. Codenamed ‘Yeti’, the under-wraps project would look to offload the processing requirements of high-end games to its own off-site server, allowing standard smart TVs or even budget PCs to replicate the…

By Henry St Leger Xbox could be getting a huge new fleet of modding features, according to internal documents leaked from Microsoft. The leaked presentation lays out a five-point plan for fostering a modding community on the Xbox platform, pointing to an increased focus on ‘UGC’ (user-generated content), a ‘catalog’ for browsing available mods, and…