Gaming

By Parker Wilhelm Though things have come a long, long way since its launch in 2014, the Xbox One is still hard at work cleaning up its now-trademark messy Home screen. In its latest attempt to clear things up, Microsoft is introducing a new update that, among other things, brings a customizable Home screen designed…

By Jon Porter A new app listing for Spotify has appeared on Microsoft’s app store, suggesting that the service will be rolled out imminently for the Xbox One, although the app is not currently available for download. The listing follows the news last week that Larry Hryb (known as Major Nelson) had been spotted using…

By Darren Allan Steam has just revealed a load of fresh stats concerning the popularity of the gaming platform, showing that it has way more users than Xbox Live – and almost as many as PlayStation Network (PSN). According to the statistics revealed by Valve at the Casual Connect event in Seattle, Steam has 33…

By Jon Porter In case you missed the news, at the end of August the cost of PlayStation Plus is set to increase significantly for UK subscribers. However, if you buy subscription codes now you can secure them at the current rate or even, thanks to this deal from CDKeys, at a discount. CDKeys is…

By Joe Osborne In Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) and other games of its ilk, there is often what’s known as a ‘Session Zero.’ Think of it as the origin story or the part of the movie trailer with the line “in a world…” In this session, the Dungeon Master (DM) can present the game world…

By Damien McFerran The arrival of the iPhone in 2008 didn’t just change the way we view mobile technology, it started the gradual shift from physical buttons to touch-based interfaces. In the early years of the resultant smartphone war, many Android handset makers turned to physical inputs to offer some kind of advantage over Apple’s…

By Emma Boyle Once there was a time when pretty much every major movie release had some kind of video game tie-in. You probably remember the thrill of going to see a film you love and then being able to go and pick up its accompanying game to take home and stretch out your new…

By Jon Porter There are two kinds of people in the world; those who like all of their controllers to match, and those who want them to stand out with awesome color-schemes called stuff like like Volcano Shadow. If you’re part of the former group then I have little to offer you this morning, but…

By Stephen Lambrechts While most users have had no problems with their Nintendo Switch units since the device launched back in March, some people have been experiencing a battery indicator issue since day one. Now, Nintendo has issued an update to address the problem, though it requires some hoop jumping on the user’s part. The…

By Parker Wilhelm The classic keyboard-and-mouse setup may be the preferred way to handle most PC games, but that doesn’t stop some titles from playing their best with a controller. Thanks to Microsoft’s plug-and-play wireless dongle, the Xbox One‘s gamepad makes an excellent go-to for PC play — and now an improved version is in…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Hold onto your seats: SNES Classic Mini pre-orders go live at the tail-end of August, Nintendo announced today. “We … can confirm that it will be made available for pre-order by various retailers late this month,” the gaming giant posted on Facebook regarding the SNES Classic a short time ago. Nintendo acknowledged…

By John McCann Crash Bandicoot is one of my all time favorite game franchises. I owned the main trilogy as well as Crash Bash and Crash Team Racing (CTR), and plowed countless hours, days, weeks, probably months, into them. So when I heard that the original trilogy was being remastered in 4K for PS4 I…

By Darren Allan There’s more good news for esports fans in the UK, as BT is joining BBC Three in broadcasting pro gaming action from the Gfinity Elite League Series One, which is currently in mid-season. BBC Three (which is now an online channel, as you’re probably aware) began broadcasting live action from the league…

By Jon Porter Last week a pretty substantial price hike hit the UK’s PlayStation Plus service, mirroring a similar increase that hit the service’s US customers last year. Sony didn’t announce any changes to the service alongside the price change, but could bundling in a PlayStation Now subscription be an option for Sony to explore…

By Darren Allan PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a shooter which has been generating more and more buzz and excitement of late, and the latest news is that the game has just become the third most popular title on Steam – setting a new record for the most-played non-Valve game ever. That’s not bad for a shooter…