Gaming

By Jon Porter 2017 has been a great year for games. From the multiplayer mayhem of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to a return to form for the Assassin’s Creed series with Origins, 2017 has had something to offer both single-player and multiplayer gamers alike. Our official game of the year awards were posted just a couple of…

By Emma Boyle It’s kind of hard not to feel a touch of doom and gloom at the moment, isn’t it? Everywhere you look something is falling apart of its own accord or being manipulated to do so. It’s like someone’s let loose a Tinkerbell of despair and she’s taken to sprinkling her miserable magic…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln Wow, what a year it’s been for PC games. While consoles have busied themselves with incremental hardware upgrades dressed up as generational leaps, the world of overclocked gaming has seen genuine strides that have taken the industry forward in exciting new ways. We’ve witnessed a new wave of CPUs transforming how we…

By David Nield Bigger Nintendo Switch game cartridges means more data and less reliance on memory cards, but Nintendo is pushing back the roll-out of 64GB cartridges for the Switch until 2019, after originally planning to introduce them during the second half of next year. That’s according to “people familiar with the matter” speaking to…

By Leif Johnson Image credit: Nintendo The Nintendo Switch is undeniably a hit, and it’s all the more remarkable for achieving that success without a subscription-based online service such as Xbox Live on the Xbox One and PlayStation Network on the PlayStation 4. Nintendo does, in fact, eventually plan to launch such a service called…

By Brendan Griffiths The Argos Boxing Day sales will be seriously busy as always. Argos is one of those stores that always seem to have a sale on no matter what time of year. It usually has a few extra tasty deals around Boxing Day though compared to the random sales in the warmer months…

By Brendan Griffiths,TechRadar Staff The Currys Boxing Day sales are always full of some of the best discounts throughout the Christmas break. Better yet, Currys has actually launched a sale already today on Christmas Day and we’re ready to catch the best offers for you. Currys and PC World merged a while backed, and the…

By Steve Boxer Inevitably, at some point this Christmas, your family gathering will involve playing group games. But if you’re sick of your eccentric uncle’s bumbling efforts at charades, or fed up with losing to your dad at Trivial Pursuit, fear not: Sony’s PlayStation 4 has a new feature that can revitalise the annual post-turkey…

By TechRadar 2017 has been a fantastic year for games – from stunning open worlds like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and massive online shooters like Destiny 2 to runaway indie success stories like Cuphead. While we’d love to praise every game we’ve loved from the last 365 days individually, we just…

By Leif Johnson Image credit: Blizzard Few controversies have shaken the gaming industry this year quite like the row over loot boxes, which typically offer a supposedly randomized chance at winning in-game cosmetic or playable items in exchange for real-world cash. Many critics see this as a form of gambling. Most game-related companies and platforms…

By Jon Porter There’s a long list of advantages PC gaming has over console gaming, but that list is set to get one shorter soon with the addition of keyboard and mouse controls to the Xbox One family of consoles. A (sadly now deleted) blog post on Microsoft’s Polish blog indicated that support for the…

By Darren Allan Chinese manufacturer GPD has carved out a niche for itself making some impressive portable PCs, and the firm – which produced the GPD Pocket that we recently reviewed and liked – is coming out with a sequel to its popular handheld Windows gaming PC. The GPD Win 2 is being fired up…

By Darren Allan The latest from the PC gaming grapevine is that Counter-strike: Global Offensive is getting a ‘Battle Royale’ mode in the style of massively popular hundred-player-shootout PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Before we go any further, we should clarify this is firmly in rumor mill territory, with the speculation springing from a video courtesy of…

By Emma Boyle When you first step into the world of Far Cry 5 you get the sense that you’re coming into something that’s living – the flags are fluttering, the environments are colorful and the characters more so. However, underneath the colors that are almost brighter than real life, in our short hands-on time…

By Emma Boyle Microsoft appears to be in the early stages of bringing Xbox party chat features to Android smartphones. Currently accessible on the Xbox Beta app and first spotted by Reddit users, the new feature makes it possible to use the Xbox mobile app to take part in party chats when you can’t be…