Gaming

By Henry St Leger Microsoft has put plans for VR support for Xbox devices on hold, according to an interview with Xbox’s chief marketing officer. Speaking to gamesindustry.biz, CMO Mike Nichols said that the gaming platform doesn’t have “any plans specific to Xbox consoles in virtual reality or mixed reality”. Microsoft’s Xbox Live avatars finally…

By Gerald Lynch It’s time. The sun may be shining, but you’re about to spend the next few weeks sat in front of your gaming PC, as the Steam Summer Sale 2018 is set to kick off today. That’s information courtesy of the Steam Database Twitter account, which has reliably pointed to the kick off…

By Nick Pino Sony might have an ace up its sleeve in the fight against Microsoft’s successful new Xbox Game Pass program. The strategy? Sony might offer downloadable titles via its PlayStation Now game-streaming service. It’s all just a rumor from an insider source at the moment, but a new report says that offline downloads…

By Darren Allan PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is celebrating becoming one of the ‘world’s most played games this year’ by knocking a third off the price of the PC version of the game on Steam. That means you can get a slice of the battle royale action for $19.99 in the US (around AU$27), rather than…

By Henry St Leger The tank warfare simulator and global phenomenon World of Tanks is getting its largest free expansion to date. World of Tanks has been a sleeper hit since its first iteration came out on PC in 2010, pitting players against each other in WWII-era tanks with an unrivaled eye for historical accuracy…

By Nick Pino If you’ve held off on buying some of the best PS4 games, Sony is ready to reward your patience. Earlier today, the makers of the PS4 and PS4 Pro announced the PlayStation Hits Collection that will contain the system’s top-selling games at a new price point of $19.99. Games listed as part…

By Joe Osborne In what couldn’t be a stronger sign of the times, the once unstoppable video games retailer GameStop is officially looking to sell. The company confirmed as much in a press release following an earlier Reuters report saying as much. “GameStop Corp. today confirmed it is in exploratory discussions with third parties regarding…

By Kevin Lee Steam has a new tool to let you know just how much you’ve spent on video games in its virtual store – though you may regret seeing the result. VentureBeat first spotted the new official Steam ‘Account Spend’ tool that adds up every single purchase you’ve ever made on Steam. All you…

By Joe Osborne Square Enix, publisher and developer of the seminal Final Fantasy role-playing game (RPG) series, seems keen to bring its widely popular massively-multiplayer online (MMO) entry in the series, Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV), to the Nintendo Switch. Naoki Yoshida, producer on FFXIV, spoke to gaming news outlet VGR at length about the latest…

By Emma Boyle While a lack of console cross-platform play has long been an issue for fans of gaming, it feels like it’s really come to a head recently with Fortnite Battle Royale. As Xbox and Nintendo tweet one another to organize games of Fortnite, PlayStation remains on the sidelines as the platform that refuses…

By Joe Osborne VR, or virtual reality, has all but become a buzzword in the homes of millions since the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive PC headsets landed in 2016. If these headsets haven’t sold but a fraction of, say, the PS4 or even Xbox One consoles in the same time frame, how did this…

By Emma Boyle Microsoft has been talking about its fully customizable avatars for over a year now and now, after many delays and leaks, they’re finally launching for Xbox Insiders on its Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead rings. Anyone who’s ever used an in-game character creator like those in The Sims will be familiar with…

By Kevin Lee Video game addiction will soon become a diagnosable metal health condition, at least in the eyes of leading international health officials. The World Health Organization now considers Gaming Disorder a unique mental health condition in the latest revision to its disease classification manual. According to the document, the UN health agency classifies…

By Emma Boyle After two years of inviting players to catch ‘em all, Pokemon Go will soon offer the ability to trade ‘em too. Announced by Niantic, new trading and friends list features will be coming to the game over the next few weeks. The first of the two features to roll out will be…

By Joe Osborne Microsoft promised them at E3 2018, and Microsoft has delivered: faster Xbox One game downloads through Game Pass are here. Microsoft has upgraded its game download service with the new Fast Start feature, powered by its machine learning (ML) server technology. Of course, this feature is only available at the time of…