Gaming

By Parker Wilhelm As the Steam Summer Sale rages on and PlayStation players enjoy Sony’s Mid-Year Sale, Microsoft is jumping off the savings sidelines to attract frugal gamers of its own. For those with room left in their budget, Xbox has announced its annual Ultimate Game Sale, taking up to 65% (plus an additional 10%…

By Emma Boyle This week the Harry Potter franchise turned 20 years old and the entire world seemed to join together for a communal reminiscence (which actually sounds rather disgusting considering how magical the whole thing was). I feel I would be remiss in my duties as the writer of a throwback column not to…

By Parker Wilhelm Twitch announced today several new changes coming to the livestreaming platform’s mobile app, to include user-demanded features like the ability to livestream directly from the app and a new interface. While the update won’t let streamers broadcast games from their phone just yet (sorry, any on-the-go Hearthstone players) but it will allow…

By Parker Wilhelm This year’s Steam Summer Sale may have all the attention (and wallets) right now, but Sony is putting up its own Mid-Year Sale to give PlayStation owners a chance for save some green for themselves. From now until July 11, the PlayStation Store is holding a sale on a massive swath of…

By Matt Hanson When Nintendo officially announced the SNES Classic Mini, a shrunk-down version of its classic games console, my heart simultaneously rose and sank, tearing itself in half and killing me instantly. I am writing this from the Gamer’s Afterlife, where geeks like me go when we’ve lost our final 1UP. It’s nice here.…

By Jon Porter It seemed like such a good idea at the time. After all, wasn’t the GameCube a modern design classic, an example to the rest of the industry that you didn’t have to make a gaming machine look like a slightly edgy DVD player to have it sell well? To celebrate the Xbox…

By TechRadar India Bureau Not everyone wants the low profile of today’s island-style keyboards. Some of us, instead, prefer the satisfying clicks and clacks of a mechanical gaming keyboard, complete with fancy lighting effects, comfy wrist rests and a few spare macro keys that can be customized to any action. Not only are they more…

By Emma Boyle Ubisoft may have given the Assassin’s Creed franchise a break in 2016 but it’s pushing it forcefully out of the hay bale this year with console title Assassin’s Creed: Origins and a newly announced mobile game, Assassin’s Creed Rebellion. Assassin’s Creed Rebellion will be a free-to-play strategy game for Android and iOS,…

By Emma Boyle Nintendo has announced that it’s taking gamers on another trip down memory lane with the release of the SNES Mini. With this compact plug-and-play console, fans will be able to play 20 of their favorite titles from the Super Nintendo era of gaming. One bonus title that’s been announced for the console,…

By Gerald Lynch It’s small, it’s cute, and it’s packed with some of the best games Nintendo ever made. But, if you’re struggling to get hold of a pre-order of Nintendo’s new SNES Mini console, perhaps you shouldn’t despair too much. Because, while it is indeed a fantastic box of nostalgia, the ‘Nintendo Classic Mini:…

By Jon Porter Update: Nintendo has announced another official retro remake – following on from the NES Classic Mini the SNES Classic Mini will go on sale in September 2017. When it comes to gaming, the past was a simpler time. You bought your console, paid for your games, and then you sat down and…

By Joe Osborne Nintendo plans to absolutely dominate this holiday season with the long-anticipated announcement of an SNES Classic Edition. This time, however, the company has taken the release up several levels. As if after our retro-loving hearts, Nintendo has included the never-before-released Star Fox 2 in the tiny box. Naturally, the firm has made…

By Parker Wilhelm Though excited we were to hear Nintendo announce the SNES Classic Edition, it wasn’t long until memories of the NES Classic Edition and its disappointingly short production run started to set in. Thankfully, it appears that Nintendo has learned a lesson from its previous microconsole, mentioning in a statement that it will…

By Joe Osborne Nintendo plans to absolutely dominate this holiday season with the long-anticipated announcement of an SNES Classic Edition. This time, however, the company has taken the release up several levels. As if after our retro-loving hearts, Nintendo has included the never-before-released Star Fox 2 in the tiny box. Naturally, the firm has made…

By Darren Allan There’s some great news for Grand Theft Auto V addicts, with the revelation that the OpenIV modding tool has been given a reprieve, with a blanket ban on the utility being lifted so that it can once again be used for single player mods. Earlier this month, OpenIV, which is designed to…