Gaming

By Gerald Lynch Getting ready to pay the annual FIFA tax? If FIFA 18 is on your Christmas wishlist, you might want to give it a try before you buy. Good news then: the FIFA 18 demo goes live today. Whether you’re playing on PS4, PC or Xbox One, you’ll be able to go hands-on…

By Andrew London It’s a good day for Nintendo fans, the company has announced that the NES Classic Mini is going to be back in stock next summer. The hugely successful console in a tiny little case sold like proverbial hotcakes, leading to stock running out and prices on auction sites souring. While previously the…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln Not many games manage to pull off being a huge, triple-A success and a cult hit, but then again, not many games are MMO-esque shooters made by Bungie. The original Destiny proved the House That Halo Built could move beyond Master Chief with swagger and joie de vivre, but the end result…

By Gerald Lynch If you’ve been struggling so far to get hold of Nintendo’s SNES Mini console, there’s still hope. Given low stock, we’re sure many people are seriously considering paying over the odds for the little gaming device. Rather than spending extortionate amounts with resellers, maybe you’d be better off holding out a little…

By Matt Hanson Since the release of Windows 10 Creators Update in April 2017, many gamers have been complaining of poor performance while they are playing, and it now looks like Microsoft has acknowledged that there is an issue, and is looking to fix it. Complaints about games stuttering, or experiencing FPS (Frames Per Second)…

By Damien McFerran This year marks a quarter century of Mario Kart. Nintendo’s casual racing classic might not boast the painstaking realism of Gran Turismo or the exhaustive and officially-licenced garage of Forza. But the instantly gratifying gameplay, intense focus on multiplayer action and use of some of video game’s most famous characters has allowed…

By Joe Osborne Intel has officially killed its WiGig line of products in favor of dedicating the wireless connectivity technology to virtual reality (VR) headsets, Anandtech reports. This means that Intel will soon no longer sell 802.11d radio cards, antennae and sinks, with End of Life (EOL) programs in place for each. Shipments of these…

By Tom Pritchard On 10th October 2007, Valve released Half Life 2: Episode 2, the continuation of Gordon Freeman’s story as he and his friends fought to free the human race from the oppression of the alien Combine. The ending provided very little in the way of closure, setting up a number of plot points…

By Emma Boyle While you’re not short of options when it comes to controllers for the Nintendo Switch, if you’re short on cash you’re unlikely to be able to pick them all up. At $50/£40 for a single Joy-Con and $70/£60 for the Switch Pro controller, Nintendo has created a bit of a predicament where…

By Jon Porter Unconfirmed rumors of a VR version of LA Noire first started swirling back in January, but today Rockstar finally made the announcement official. The VR version of the game will be arriving on the HTC Vive alongside the PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch remasters on November 14. We’ll admit that when…

By Jon Porter Rockstar Games has confirmed that a remaster of LA Noire is coming to current generation systems (including the Nintendo Switch), as well as a special VR version featuring seven cases from the original game. This is the first time a Rockstar Game has appeared on a Nintendo console since Grand Theft Auto:…

By Emma Boyle In difficult or overwhelming times in my life I will inevitably turn to one of two places: my Harry Potter books or my collection of classic point-and-click adventures. Though it’s not a productive coping method, without fail I come away from my regression feeling safe, rejuvenated and ready for anything. Especially box…

By Brendan Griffiths We had to check our calendars this morning to make sure it wasn’t Black Friday as these new Destiny 2 PS4 and Xbox One bundle deals are incredibly cheap for early September. Not to mention Destiny 2 only came out yesterday. If you’ve had your eye on an Xbox One S or…

By Harry Domanski To mark the release of Destiny 2, the Microsoft Store is offering some really excellent prices on Xbox One S consoles that come bundled with the game as well as two other free games. Microsoft is offering either the 500GB console bundle or 1TB console bundle for $329 and $399 respectively, which…

By Andrew Hayward The Atari name still carries a lot of cachet with video game fans, given the company’s role in creating the home console market – but its last piece of new hardware, the 1993’s Jaguar, was a massive flop. Since then, the Atari brand has changed hands multiple times, emerged from bankruptcy, and…