Gaming

By Nick Pino Super Mario Odyssey is the Mario Galaxy sequel you’ve been dreaming of. The worlds contained within the game are expansive and detail-rich, and Mario still moves like he’s a limber, spry athlete rather than the 30-year-old plumber that he is. We’ve gotten a chance to go hands on with the game at…

By Jon Porter Microsoft has had a very busy showing at this year’s E3. As well as unveiling its new 4K console, the Xbox One X, the company also managed to find the time to announce that the original Xbox’s games would be coming to the Xbox One as backwards compatible titles. The two announcements…

By Parker Wilhelm Easily one of the biggest challenges of ditching physical media on a gaming console is not even getting a fraction of the games you want onto your machine’s hard drive before it maxes out. To help make developing your digital library and clearing space on your media shelf easier, Seagate is announcing…

By Joe Osborne If you were looking forward to a blow out of new, high-quality Switch games for 2017 from Nintendo’s E3 2017 keynote, you have about as much to look forward to as you did before. This, frankly, is not the impression that Nintendo gave leading into its E3 2017 presentation. “Our various E3…

By Emma Boyle Assassin’s Creed Origins has had a big presence at this year’s E3 in Los Angeles, featuring at both Microsoft’s conference and developer Ubisoft’s conference. At both events, we got to see brand new footage from the game. Even better, we’ve now gotten the chance to get hands on with it on the…

By Parker Wilhelm During its E3 2017 Spotlight presentation, Nintendo dropped details for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild‘s Expansion Pass and its first major chunk of post-release content. The first of the two planned expansions for Nintendo’s open world opus, titled “Master Trials,” adds a new Hard Mode difficulty setting, new armor…

By Emma Boyle After last week’s Nintendo Direct which was dedicated to the Pokemon franchise, expectations for another Pokemon announcement during this year’s E3 livestream were not high. However, Nintendo decided to surprise fans by confirming that a mainline Pokemon game would be coming to Nintendo Switch. No other details were revealed other than it…

By Jon Porter During its E3 2017 livestream Nintendo confirmed that Metroid Prime 4 is in development. However, aside from showing off the game’s logo, details on the new game were scarce, with Nintendo stopping short of confirming a release date, developer, or even officially stating the game’s platform. The previous Metroid Prime game’s were…

By Brendan Griffiths After a year of waiting, Microsoft finally officially unveiled the Xbox One X at E3 2017. Formerly known as Project Scorpio, this is the full 4K HDR upgrade Xbox One owners have been waiting for. So we imagine you’re after any information you can get about an Xbox One X pre-order? Or…

By Darren Allan We’ve seen a huge growth in the popularity of eSports in recent times – to the point where big games have been covered on Sky TV – but will competitive matches be something that can help stoke the popularity of VR gaming, which remains a rather niche pursuit? Intel certainly believes so,…

By Gary Marshall We all know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Amazon Prime Day? If you’re not familiar with Prime Day, it’s when Amazon goes mad for 24 hours and offers big discounts on things you might actually want to buy. Last year it was the biggest day in Amazon’s history:…

By Emma Boyle No one said Sony would have it easy at E3 2017. On Sunday, Microsoft unveiled its powerful new 4K console, the Xbox One X, and Nintendo teased its fans with potential Super Mario Odyssey details well ahead of the show. Honestly it was going to be hard for the PS4 creator to…

By Emma Boyle,Kevin Lee Sony’s E3 conference this year marked almost eight months to the day since the release of its PlayStation VR headset and that meant the pressure was on for the console giant to prove its commitment to the still fledgling platform. Though the headset has now reached 1 million units sold, not…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln Sony’s E3 2017 was much like its last – a no frills event that cut away all the big on-stage monologues and guests in favour of game demos and trailers. While there certainly weren’t enough live demos for our liking (and a few too many edited trailers), its clear PS4 has a…

By Emma Boyle At its E3 conference this year, Sony has announced a new collection of smartphone-controlled games designed to entertain the whole family, including those who might not usually play games. Under the umbrella PlayLink, these games are played on the PlayStation 4 console, but controlled via an iOS or Android smartphone rather than…