Gaming

By Parker Wilhelm Atari is a legendary name in gaming, but the classic arcade-era company has been out of the home console market for quite some time — until now, that is. Shortly after a tease for a mysterious “Ataribox” was uploaded online, Atari CEO Fred Chesnais confirms that the long-running game company is working…

By Brendan Griffiths Who needs Black Friday when PlayStation Plus deals are this cheap? We’re assuming these offers are a part of Sony’s Days of Play sale, which means these super cheap prices may only last until June 17. Let’s get straight to it. In the UK, multiple retailers have knocked the 12-month PlayStation Plus…

By Nick Pino It’s easy to feel overwhelmed walking around the E3 2017 show floor. You’re literally surrounded by millions of dollars in advertising. But less than one block away from the show floor is the Devolver Lot – a parking lot that the indie publisher has picked to set up shop. Inside, you’ll find…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln When Microsoft’s E3 2017 rounded off, all puffed up and proud of the Xbox One X reveal and its beefy hardware specs (well, beefy in the context of consoles, at least), whispers were abound that VR was going to go the way of rhythm action games or the unloved stepchild that was…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln If you thought that virtual reality’s renaissance had finally run its course, you’d be sorely mistaken. In fact, it looks like all the biggest names in the video game industry are doubling down on immersive, headset-based experiences. One look at this year’s E3 gathering in LA and you’ll see VR is going…

By Emma Boyle,Jon Porter E3 2017 has revealed that come 2018, we’ll have not one, but two big pirate games to choose from: Rare’s Sea of Thieves and Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones. Though it’d be easy to assume that these games will be going blade to blade as direct competitors on the market, having been…

By Gerald Lynch Have you played Minecraft? Sorry. Yes. Of course you’ve played Minecraft – it’s the videogame equivalent of asking if you’ve ever played Tic-Tac-Toe or hopscotch. It’s this gaming generation’s most ubiquitous title, available (initially freely) on everything from PCs to low-end smartphones to the newly announced Xbox One X. It took an…

By Emma Boyle As I sat down in my seat to start my Call of Duty WWII multiplayer demo at E3, I looked at everyone around me nervously. I am not a veteran when it comes to first person shooters; it’s not that I don’t enjoy them, it’s more that I’m just not good at…

By Harry Domanski Sales come and sales go, but if you were ever on the fence about buying an Xbox One S, or even if you’re just after a 4K Blu-Ray player and some free premium streaming, then this bundle from Big W is worth a look-in. You can currently knock $204 off the total…

By Nick Pino E3 2017 is coming to a close tomorrow. The show, which opened on Tuesday, June 13, will close its doors to the public on Thursday, June 15 at 5 pm PT. Before it does, however, we wanted to piece together a virtual tour of the show floor for those that wanted to…

By Parker Wilhelm In case you thought The Walking Dead couldn’t be more harrowing, the zombie phenomenon is now headed a more in-your-face platform: virtual reality. Skybound Entertainment, the company helmed by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, announced a partnership deal with the similarly named Skydance Interactive to create original VR games set in…

By Cameron Faulkner Dolby Access might be the best-kept secret of E3 2017. Actually, that distinction belongs to Metroid Prime 4, but nevertheless, it’s a nifty app targeted specifically at Xbox One (including Xbox One S and Xbox One X) and Windows 10 users who want to up their game with 360-degree surround sound on…

By Jon Porter Some games click with you right away, but, for me at least, Strange Bridage was not one of those games. The title, which is being developed by the studio behind the Sniper Elite series, is a co-operative third person shooter with all the trappings of a 1930s pulp adventure. With Gears of…

By Emma Boyle At this year’s E3 Square Enix announced a surprise addition to the Life is Strange franchise – a prequel called Life is Strange: Before the Storm, which is set three years before the first game and follows the character Chloe. When it was released in 2015 Life is Strange became a somewhat…

By Matt Swider Amazon Prime Day deals are like the prequel to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and we’re expecting to save even more money in 2017. It’s Amazon.com’s 24-hour discount day on big-ticket items you actually want to buy. Sure, Amazon Prime Day is an invented online shopping holiday, but last year it turned…