Gaming

By Emma Boyle Nintendo has announced that it plans to close up the Wii Shop Channel on January 31 2019. After this date it’ll no longer be possible to buy titles or applications from the channel for either the Wii or Wii U consoles. The process of closing up shop will actually begin before then,…

By Gerald Lynch There’s always a degree of skepticism you should bring with you when looking at “premium” AV cabling. A high price tag and the promise of gold-plated connectors won’t necessarily bring you any greater performance benefits than if you’d just settled on a budget cable. But the Marseille mCable Gaming Edition is promising…

By Emma Boyle Like your birthday, Christmas and Halloween, FIFA release day rolls around but once a year. That most wonderful time of year is almost upon us again with FIFA 18‘s September 29 release date but a matter of hours away. Even though most of us at this point have accepted the FIFA franchise…

By Emma Boyle Rockstar promised brand new Red Dead Redemption news on September 28 and it delivered in a big way with the game’s second official trailer. So, what have we learned about the game this time? Well, according to Rockstar the game will tell “the story of outlaw Arthur Morgan and the Van der…

By Emma Boyle Assassin’s Creed has always been a franchise with a grand vision both in terms of the scale of its worlds and its narratives. Telling a story that has a foot in our present while making history an accurately and respectfully recreated playground is no small task but the team behind Assassin’s Creed…

By Andrew London If you’re disappointed with the line-up of games included in the SNES Classic Mini, there is good news for you. Someone who managed to get their hands on a console a little early has managed to hack it. According to a Reddit post, the same program that could be used to hack…

By Deepti Purohit On the eve of ZOWIE eXTREMESLAND India Qualifier Finale, BenQ ZOWIE showcased two newly launched gaming products to the participants on Sep 22. The products, called as Zowie XL2546 gaming monitor and Zowie Celeritas II keyboard, aim at the gamers and vows to enhance their experience. Both the products are now officially…

By Jon Porter The free games you get with a PlayStation Plus subscription can be a bit hit and miss, but this month includes what is hands down the most interesting game of recent years, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. Now, to be clear, we’re not claiming the final part of the Metal…

By Emma Boyle After taking a year off to find itself, the Assassin’s Creed franchise returns this October with a brand new title called Origins. Set in ancient Egypt, Origins takes players further back in time than any previous game AC title, with the game’s developers promising it’s a complete reinvention of the series. In…

By Damien McFerran This week sees the launch of the SNES Classic Mini, the high-anticipated micro-console which not only packs in 21 amazing 16-bit classics but also gives the world its first official taste of Star Fox 2, a title which was supposed to launch more than two decades ago but was cancelled at the…

By Damien McFerran The SNES Classic Edition (or SNES Mini, if you prefer) launches this week after months of hype and expectation, and we dearly hope you’re reading this as one of the lucky few who actually managed to secure a pre-order, thereby avoiding the agonising process of having to sift through countless eBay listings…

By Brendan Griffiths SNES Mini stock alert! UK buyers will have another chance to pre-order the imminent SNES Mini tonight, from 8pm. We’ve seen stock refreshes since the original batch sell out in minutes over the last few months, and we expect tonight to be no different. UK retailer John Lewis is saying stock will…

By TechRadar Pro As a gamer, there are always upcoming new releases or next-gen consoles to look forward to. However, as game consoles have become more advanced, their prices have increased significantly making the question of which console to buy all that more difficult for consumers. Selling your old consoles and games is an easy…

By Mufaddal Fakhruddin,Kevin Lee As cross-platform play finally makes its way to consoles, the best gaming laptops continue to bear a competitive edge against their living room-based rivals. For one thing, you don’t have to pay for the online multiplayer – there’s almost never a subscription fee required to play games purchased through Steam, Origin…

By Nick Pino Atari made headlines today when it announced the first real details about the Ataribox, its first home console in over two decades. The console will run on a Linux PC platform, come stocked with a mid-grade custom AMD processor and cost, believe it or not, between $250 and $300 (around £185 and…