Gaming

By Emma Boyle Sony’s Paris Games Week conference has come and gone, bringing with it a glut of new trailers for us to feast on. There were trailers for brand new games as well as confirmed upcoming titles from both first and third-party studios across the PlayStation VR and PS4 platforms. To make your feasting…

By Jon Porter At its Paris Games Week keynote, Sony began strong by announcing a brand new PS4 game from Infamous developer Sucker Punch. Titled Ghost of Tsushima, the new game appears to be set in a Samurai-inspired setting. Aside from a title and setting, details of the new game were pretty scarce. Given that…

By Gerald Lynch The gorgeous new open-world Assassin’s Creed Origins, set in a beautifully realised ancient Egypt, would be a demanding game for PC hardware to run at the best of times. But it seems that stringent anti-piracy measures may be adding an additional, substantial strain on machines. Following reports of excessive CPU load from…

By Emma Boyle Like an exceptionally under-achieving older sibling, the Wii U continues to make the Nintendo Switch look like a child prodigy – in just six months the Switch has managed to sell half the number of consoles the Wii U did in its five year lifetime. According to Reuters, the Switch has at…

By Andrew Williams,Dom Reseigh-Lincoln It may be the opinion of some PC gamers that you aren’t a hardcore player unless you’re rocking a GTX1080 and have a different VR headset for each day of the week. But almost any half-decent laptop made in the last five years can actually play an amazing library of games…

By Matt Hanson Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2014’s critically acclaimed reboot of the famous series, The New Order. That game gave the long-running series a big shot in the arm, portraying a gritty alternative timeline where the Nazis won World War II, while maintaining the fast-paced gameplay and…

By Joe Osborne Valve has finally pulled the proverbial coffin lid back on its annual Steam Halloween Sale, unleashing amazing deals on a huge collection of horror games and movies. From big AAA games to indie gems, expect to save up to 80% on the best scary games of recent memory. The sale went live…

By Leif Johnson After so many years of doom and gloom, Nintendo is enjoying a bit of a renaissance. But perhaps because it’s used to the demands of that earlier, slower era, the well-known gaming company has had a rough time meeting the wild demand for new devices like NES Classic, SNES Classic and Nintendo…

By Damien McFerran Super Mario has become something of a defining character when it comes to Nintendo hardware; Super Mario Bros. effectively sold the NES to the global masses in the ’80s, while Super Mario World was a dream launch title for the 16-bit SNES a few years later. Super Mario 64 would revolutionize the…

By Emma Boyle Assassin’s Creed has always claimed that “history is our playground” but Assassin’s Creed Origins may be the first game in the series that truly captures that. Previous titles in the series have, unfortunately, tended towards feeling more like closed schoolyards than open playgrounds. Open to explore though they were, these settings had…

By Andrew London Just in time for the Steam Halloween Sale, Valve has introduced digital gift cards, allowing you to give the gift of PC gaming without leaving your home. There have been physical gift cards available for a while, but this would mean that you’d have to take your actual physical body to an…

By Leif Johnson Image credit: Seagate It’s ridiculously easy to run out of space on a modern gaming console like the PlayStation 4, which is why we were happy when Sony started allowing customers to hook up external hard drives for the device back in February. Today Seagate announced its new Game Drive, which brings…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons GameStop’s Black Friday deals are starting even earlier this year as the gaming retail giant is opening its doors on Thanksgiving. This is a major change of course for GameStop, which has in recent years remained closed on Thanksgiving. But this year, GameStop says it’s responding to store associate and customer requests…

By Gerald Lynch If you’ve tried a first-person VR game, you’ve probably already had that smile-lifting, goosebump-inducing moment of looking down at your digitally-rendered body, rebuilt as someone else. Maybe it was as the Dark Knight in Batman Arkham VR, or as a lightsaber-wielding Jedi apprentice in Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine. In case you…

By Emma Boyle Microsoft has put a hard ‘K’ into death knell by revealing that it’s no longer manufacturing the Kinect camera in an exclusive interview with Fast Co Design. After going full-steam ahead when it launched the device for the Xbox 360 in November 2010, Microsoft drew back from it in later years to…