Gaming

By Leif Johnson The SNES Classic Mini is sure to be one of the big gift hits of the holiday season, but the almost instant shortages have made it a pain to find. Previously we reported that GameStop will be getting regular shipments of the coveted console throughout the end of the year, but if…

By Brendan Griffiths Last year’s Doom turned out to be one of the finest shooters of the generation and thrust the long-running franchise back into the mix of gaming’s elite after an all-too-long absence. Blisteringly fast movement, waves of relentless enemies attacking from all angles, and a fine selection of weaponry blended together for the…

By Emma Boyle More than ever we’re seeing games which depend heavily on massively online multiplayer modes – Destiny 2, FIFA 18, and Call of Duty WW2 are already drawing in players and, next week, Star Wars Battlefront 2 will join them. In light of this, a PlayStation Plus membership and access to the online…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln Controversy is difficult to thing to shed, and it’s something that’s impossible to avoid when discussing Star Wars Battlefront 2 in any kind of depth. Microtransactions – or loot boxes as the cool kids know them now – are a fundamental part of the game’s progression system, so the advantage of paying…

By Nick Pino Black Friday weekend has always been a great time to be a gamer: If you’re careful, patient and observative – which, we all know gamers are – you can make out like a bandit. The coveted prize this holiday season? An Xbox One S for $189. Yes, Microsoft’s HDR-friendly, upscale 4K-capable console…

By Emma Boyle Now that the Xbox One X has arrived alongside the PlayStation 4 Pro, we have well and truly entered the era of 4K gaming. Sure, many of us still have one foot in the not-so-distant Full HD past but the march onwards has begun. Technology is advancing and gaming is changing for…

By Steve Boxer Electronic Arts’ arcade-style racing franchise Need For Speed has been around since 1994, but recent outings have earned it a reputation as the videogame equivalent of a Dan Brown book. That’s because it sells fantastically well, but nobody can fathom why. How refreshing it would be to assert that the latest iteration,…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln Controversy is difficult to thing to shed, and it’s something that’s impossible to avoid when discussing Star Wars Battlefront 2 in any kind of depth. Microtransactions – or loot boxes as the cool kids know them now – are a fundamental part of the game’s progression system, so the advantage of paying…

By David Nield It would appear the Nintendo Switch is a hit, and in fact Nintendo is so confident in the chances of its ongoing success that it’s planning to ramp up production of the gaming device next year – perhaps putting out as many as 30 million Switches during 2018. That’s according to anonymous…

By Emma Boyle It’s taken a while, but the Nintendo Switch is finally getting its first video streaming app: Hulu. There’s been little fanfare around the announcement – in fact, it was first revealed when Nintendo sent out its weekly “Nintendo Downloads” email and Hulu was spotted quite far down the list of upcoming apps.…

By Emma Boyle More than one year after the nostalgia-driven AR frenzy that was Pokemon Go, Niantic has announced it’s going to cast an incendio charm on the world with an AR Harry Potter game. Not too much is known about the game at the moment, but Niantic has confirmed that it’s working in partnership…

By Stephen Lambrechts Within minutes of starting our hands on session with the Nintendo Switch version of L.A. Noire, Rockstar’s classic 1940s-set detective title, we’re confronted with the sprawled out body of a female murder victim. Fully naked, badly beaten and mutilated, this poor woman’s body has been dumped in the hills above the Los…

By Jon Porter I’m standing in a shoe store interrogating my first witness. She’s clearly nervous, her eyes are darting everywhere in the room aside from meeting my gaze, and her shoulders are turned inwards. The experience transports me back six years, back to the first time I played through LA Noire’s, but this time…

By Emma Boyle If you’re a fan of EA Sports titles, you’re probably well-accustomed to the annual ritual that takes place every August and September. It’s the time when all of the new and tweaked sports games are released and your bank account takes a UFC-style beating. It could, however, be a ritual that’s coming…

By Emma Boyle We’re now four years into the current console generation and, if Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot is to believed, it’s going to another two years at least before we enter the next one. During a recent investors’ call, Guillemot explained his reasoning, saying that “as Sony launched PlayStation 4 Pro last year and…