Gaming

By David Nield For years there’s been friction between World of Warcraft players wanting access to classic, “vanilla” servers (without all those later expansions and upgrades), and Blizzard, which preferred everyone to be using newer versions of the game, thank you very much. Well, Blizzard has relented: at the annual BlizzCon event in California, which…

By Emma Boyle When you’ve dedicated hours of your life to playing a game there are few things worse than losing all your hard-earned progress. Unfortunately, this is a very real risk that Nintendo Switch owners currently face. Going back to the tense days of corrupted PlayStation memory cards and dying Game Boys, the Nintendo…

By Jon Porter Microsoft’s newest console, the much-hyped Xbox One X, is nearly upon us. If you haven’t checked out our full review of the new console, then we thoroughly suggest you do so right now – it’s a complex beast. There’s a lot to take in with the new console, and it’s also the…

By Emma Boyle November is a big month for the Assassin’s Creed franchise – it’s the first full month since the launch of the latest title, Origins, and it also marks 10 years since the release of the first game. That’s right, the Assassin’s Creed series is 10 years old. No, I can’t believe it…

By Ian Dransfield By staying true to the series’ heritage, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus has ended up offering a stronger, more timely social commentary than pretty much any game released in 2017. Or ever, for that matter. And how has the third Wolfenstein from developer MachineGames done that? Why, by letting you shoot a…

By Gerald Lynch EA Access, the subscription-based gaming service, may be about to expand to “other platforms” having previously been an Xbox One exclusive. EA CEO Andrew Wilson, speaking during an earnings call, revealed that EA Access has been such a success that it’s now being considered for further expansion. “Our subscription services like EA…

By Emma Boyle Korg, the company behind electronic musical instruments and software, has announced that it’s bringing a new music production game to the Nintendo Switch in Spring 2018. At the moment, there’s not much information available on the title but given that it’s titled “Korg Gadget for Nintendo Switch. Music Production Software” we have…

By Jon Porter Of all the Microsoft games receiving Xbox One X patches, Halo 5 is the one we’ve heard the least about recently. However that hasn’t prevented the patch from coming out in time for the new console’s launch. 343 Industries has confirmed that the patch will be launching later today at 9:00 PT…

By Emma Boyle The PlayStation store’s Halloween sale period has barely ended, but it’s already discounting more titles with the launch of its Double Discounts promotion. Though everyone will be able to pick up games for cheaper, this sale will particularly appeal to PlayStation Plus subscribers as they’ll get, funnily enough, double the discounts. So,…

By Samuel Horti After more than 12 years in hibernation, the Age of Empires series is back for its fourth outing. In August, publisher Microsoft Studios announced that Age of Empires 4 was alive and kicking, and that it was being developed by Relic Entertainment, the team behind Homeworld and Company of Heroes (which is…

By Jon Porter Microsoft’s Paris Games Week presentation has revealed that hit third-person shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will be coming to the Xbox Game Preview Program on December 12th. As the word ‘preview’ implies, this means the game won’t arrive on the console in a finished state, but will see frequent updates much as the PC…

By Leif Johnson If you’ve been thinking that Nintendo is having a great year, its latest financial report proves you haven’t been wrong. We’ve already written about the sales of the new Nintendo Switch console, which have been so outstanding that the device is on track to overtake the lifetime sales of the Wii U…

By Paul Taylor With less than a week until the Xbox One X hits stores, we’ve finally got our hands on a final retail review unit and have duly unboxed this beauty to get a closer look at the world’s most powerful console. In the video below, we dig out what’s inside the Xbox One…

By Leif Johnson Rocket League was the talk of the gaming scene two years ago, and it may be about to enjoy a fresh boost of interest soon. Just in time for the Christmas holiday, developer Psyonix announced the scrappy game about soccer with cars will be coming to the Nintendo Switch on November 14.…

By Leif Johnson The shift to a digital marketplace hasn’t been too kind to GameStop, so now the brick-and-mortar video game outlet is attempting to focus on rentals in addition to its usual sales of new and used boxed games. As Mashable reports, GameStop is introducing a subscription-based model called “PowerPass” that will let subscribers…