Gaming

By Gerald Lynch It’s hard to think of two more highly-praised and eagerly-anticipated gaming franchises than Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar. But if you’ve been a long-time Nintendo console diehard, you’ll have missed out on some of these great titles as Nintendo failed to bring them to its machines. Could that…

By Emma Boyle We’ve all had it happen – you’re playing an intense single-player game or watching a movie and all of a sudden every single one of your friends decides now is the time to invite you into a match. The notifications come down your screen so fast and hard you believe in a…

By Zak Storey We tend to find it hard to get excited about controllers for our beloved PCs. The use cases are slim, but a good controller is an essential part of any gaming enthusiast’s PC toolkit. After all, you can’t play every game with a mouse and keyboard. Well, you can, but lots of…

By Darren Allan Asus has unleashed an ROG gaming laptop at CES 2018, which is a little different because it’s a limited edition machine signed by a famous pro gamer. The Asus ROG Strix SKT T1 Hero Edition owes its less-than-succinct name to the fact that this is actually a collaboration between the notebook manufacturer…

By Emma Boyle For a long time now, consoles have claimed the center of the living room by virtue of the fact that you can connect them to “the big TV”, not worry too much about latency, and enjoy immersive visuals on a large scale (particularly now that 4K consoles have arrived). PCs may have…

By Leif Johnson Once upon a time there were pundits who thought the Nintendo Switch was going to be a dud, because – after all – what would be the appeal of a portable home console in this age of smartphones and iPads? Turns out, they were very, very wrong. Today Nintendo announced that the…

By Jon Porter Remember the Miiverse? That Nintendo-made social network that started on the Wii U in 2012 before migrating to the 3DS in late 2013? Remember all the friends you made, and all the memories you shared with them? Yeah, we didn’t think so, but that didn’t stop us from being sad when the…

By Emma Boyle Have you ever looked at a parent using a baby sling and thought ‘man, I could really use something like that for my Nintendo Switch‘? No, us neither. Still, that hasn’t stopped this third-party accessory manufacturer. First tweeted by game developer Jake Kazdal of 17-Bit in Kyoto, this accessory is designed to…

By Emma Boyle After Microsoft announced late last year that it would no longer be manufacturing Kinect cameras, we thought the accessory couldn’t get any more dead. But we were wrong. In some kind of zombie hunting mission, Microsoft has now announced that it’s no longer producing the Xbox Kinect Adaptor. This adaptor allowed Xbox…

By Matt Hanson Steam has just released its December results of its Hardware and Software Survey, and it looks like there’s some good news for the fledgling Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The results of the survey, which Steam users fill in to share information about the hardware they use, show that Windows Mixed Reality headsets…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln Now that 2018 is here, it’s time to start clearing out that hard drive and seriously considering another GPU upgrade because this year is going to put some serious strain on your free time, your wallet and your gaming machine. In the months to come we’re going to see some open-worlds that…

By John McCann A fresh Red Dead Redemption 2 release date of June 8, 2018 has been leaked by a Dutch retailer, making it later than Rockstar’s teased “Spring 2018” arrival. Retailer slip-ups can be honest mistakes, as they ready product pages for upcoming games, allowing them to switch the pages live as soon as…

By Emma Boyle Your to-play list of 2017 may be towering over your head in a Damoclesian manner every time you sit on your sofa but still you can’t help but keep an anticipatory eye on what’s coming next. We know, no judgement – we also have that problem. There’s so much good stuff available…

By Gerald Lynch The Nintendo Switch, this Christmas’s most sought-after present, has been hacked, paving the way for installations of unofficial “homebrew” software – and potentially even pirated games. A recent hacking conference in Germany saw a team of tinkerers take advantage of a quirk of the console’s off-the-shelf Nvidia Tegra chip, allowing them to…

By Matt Hanson If you’re still on the hunt for some amazing Boxing Day deals, then Currys PC World could help you bag a serious bargain, as it’s cut the prices of a huge range of products across its website. These deals went live at 8pm on December 29 and run until January 2 2018…