Gaming

By Nick Pino Project Scorpio, Microsoft’s next ultra-powerful iteration of the Xbox One, promises native 4K gaming and virtual reality headset support. These were key talking points by the company on stage during E3 2016 held last June, and have remained a pillar for the new console. And while Microsoft isn’t backing away from Scorpio’s…

By Gerald Lynch Can you name a handheld device that can play the sort of triple A games you’d expect from a home console? OK, not that one. Do you remember Sony’s PS Vita, the premium dedicated handheld that promised to put the power of a home PlayStation in your hands? It had great potential,…

By Emma Boyle As we expected there is indeed a Pokémon game coming to the Nintendo Switch, but it’s not quite what everyone anticipated. Rather than a Switch port for Pokémon Sun and Moon called Pokémon Stars, Pokken Tournament will be coming to Switch, with the title Pokken Tournament Deluxe. Though many hoped the Switch…

By Gerald Lynch Is virtual reality on the edge of going mainstream? That seems to be the suggestion with the latest sales figures from Sony – its PlayStation VR headset has hit 1 million units sold since going on sale back in October of 2016. That compares very favorably to the rival HTC Vive and…

By Emma Boyle Good news for gamers who are more interested in a Final Fantasy massively multiplayer online experience than they are in owning a PlayStation 4: there are currently discussions happening around bringing Final Fantasy 14 to both Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The game’s director Naoki Yoshida has said previously that he’d like…

By Harry Domanski High-end gaming manufacturer MSI has unveiled its reinvented console-esque gaming desktop, the Vortex G25, at this year’s Computex in Taiwan. First appearing at CES 2016, MSI’s original Vortex (the G65) took the shape of a cylindrical tower that looked like a gamer’s rendition of a Mac Pro. But based on the sleek…

By Jon Porter If ever there was a year for Microsoft to put on a strong showing at E3 it’s this year. Sony has held a comfortable lead in hardware sales and also beat Microsoft to launch the world’s first console VR headset last year, the PlayStation VR. But the tide could be about to…

By Andrew London We may be entering the age where robots can do most jobs a human can do, but one thing they still struggle with is realistic movement. This means that in video games and films where digital characters appear, there is often a motion-capture performer behind the scenes to thank for the naturalistic…

By Gerald Lynch If there’s a gaming battleground for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, there’s no bigger arena than the E3 stage. The annual face-off sees the big three names in game development puff their chests out (even if Nintendo does so from the comfort of its ‘Direct’ YouTube studio), showing off the wares it’s hoping…

By Jon Porter Outrageously modded vehicles? Check. Fast paced, car based stunts? Check. Delightfully corny dialogue? Check and mate. The first trailer for this year’s Need for Speed game (subtitled ‘Payback’) is here, and it looks ridiculous. I’m personally unapologetic about my utter love for The Fast and the Furious franchise, so I’m delighted that…

By Emma Boyle Despite its fairly finite name, it turns out The Last of Us wasn’t the last we’d see of The Last of Us. Considering the first game has been continually hailed as a masterpiece thanks to its excellent, emotional story and engaging life-like characters, the decision to develop a sequel isn’t actually all…

By Stephen Lambrechts After months of speculation, Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has finally shed some more light on its upcoming subscription-based online service for the Nintendo Switch via a post on the company’s official website. Initially expected to arrive shortly after the Switch’s retail release, the launch of Nintendo’s new paid online gaming service has…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln For a very long time franchise games have been king of the proverbial castle. Sat upon a throne wrought from multi-million dollar advertising campaigns, lucrative energy drink tie-ins and over-indulgent celebrity launch parties, they surveyed the industry like a conquered kingdom. But those days, it seems, are numbered. Some of the biggest…

By Emma Boyle I feel pretty comfortable in stating that most of us at some point in our youth had a fascination with pirates. I don’t mean web surfing digital downloaders, I mean the real, historical wave-riding pillagers. Romanticized, of course, so that they’re less smelly and more noble. My interest started around the time…

By Emma Boyle Outside of special editions tied to specific games or competitions, it’s not often we see PlayStation consoles released in colors other than white or black anymore. That could be about to change, however, if there’s any truth behind recent images of a gold PS4 Slim that have appeared online. Sony hasn’t announced…