Gaming

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln The video game industry is changing. Or, more specifically, it’s already changed, and we’re just starting to realise it. Loot boxes and games geared towards a ‘service’ model have seemingly reignited the debate over the monetisation of in-game experiences – one that we faced years ago when free-to-play titles first reared their…

By Gerald Lynch There was a time when the height of pop culture Cockney mischievousness was merely attempting to “blow the bloody doors off.” But in new PlayStation VR title Blood and Truth, you’ll be tasked with blowing up an entire casino as you explore the murky depths of London’s criminal underworld. Fresh from its…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln It only takes a few steps onto the shores of Normandy to realize Call of Duty WW2 isn’t a shooter that’s going to treat you like a god with bullet-sponge skin. Even on lower difficulties, German tracer fire cuts your health down to a sliver. Cover – long resigned to being mere…

By Gerald Lynch There’s a confidence to the next wave of games being developed for the PlayStation VR headset that transcends the limitations of the hardware they’re running on. Sony’s PlayStation 4 VR gamble was one that put accessibility and price (pairing a relatively affordable, low-res virtual reality headset with a relatively underpowered console) over…

By Emma Boyle After revealing the dates for its fourth annual PlayStation Experience at E3 back in June, Sony has now confirmed the exact date and time of its presentation and given some hints about what fans can expect to see. While the experience as a whole will run from Friday December 8 to Sunday…

By Emma Boyle Fans of The Elder Scrolls aren’t short of routes into the world of Skyrim and come November 17 there’ll be one more: PlayStation VR. Given that it’s sure to be a headset-selling title, Sony has announced it’ll be releasing a PSVR and Skyrim VR bundle. As well as Skyrim VR, all of…

By Jon Porter After a year and a half of hype Microsoft’s newest console, the Xbox One X, is finally available to buy in stores. It’s been a long road. Originally announced under the name ‘Project Scorpio’ back at E3 2016, the console was later renamed to the Xbox One X at the following year’s…

By Harry Domanski Although The Gamesmen’s eBay store already has decent prices on a lot of their items, you can take an extra 20% off thanks to an eBay discount code and save some serious dollars on the latest in gaming, not to mention a huge discount on the Xbox One X on day one.…

By Leif Johnson Microsoft’s content strategy for its Xbox One console has largely focused on hoping third-party publishers will create blockbuster exclusives for the device, and it’s been fairly rough going ever since its 2013 release. So now, in an interview with Bloomberg, Xbox chief Phil Spencer claims that Microsoft is planning on creating more…

By Matt Hanson I’m a Windows (and occasionally Linux) guy, and I’ve never really considered getting a MacBook, mainly because, above all, I’m a gamer. Switching to Apple’s operating system would mean I’d have to drop access to a number of my games. Sure, I could try dual-booting macOS with Windows 10, but that defeats…

By Emma Boyle For hardcore completionists, collecting in-game trophies has always been its own reward. However, now that PlayStation has announced that its Rewards program in the US will take trophies into account, earning you PSN store credit for devoted play, the average player has a nice incentive to begin trophy hunting. Now, when you’ve…

By Darren Allan Blizzard has revealed the full details of how the first season of its pro gaming Overwatch League will pan out, with the excitement kicking off in January. To be precise, the first match will be on January 10 (although there will be preseason exhibition matches from December 6 to 9), with the…

By Emma Boyle PlayStation Rewards is giving all the completionists out there yet another incentive to collect every in-game trophy: they can now be exchanged for credit to your PSN account. First discovered by Kotaku, it appears a new section has been added to the Sony Rewards website, where silver, gold and platinum trophies are…

By Jon Porter We expect few tears have been shed as Adobe Flash has gradually disappeared from the internet. The proprietary format was a scourge that lasted for years, as companies seemingly competed to have the most bloated, over-animated websites using the format. But in the pre-HTML5 days Flash was the basis for a number…

By Stephen Lambrechts,Emma Boyle,Jon Porter,Andrew London The Xbox One X is finally here, and there are already a number of high profile titles on the console that have received patches that greatly improve their visuals, allowing the new games to play in true 4K on the console., We now know that there are 130 enhanced…