Gaming

By James Pickard, Monday, 10 February 2020 13:06 GMT A handful of retailers have dropped the price of the Sega Mega Drive Mini to £55 or less – the lowest it’s been since release. Originally launching back in October for £70, the Mega Drive Mini has been floating around at the £60 mark since the

Here’s a quick video introducing the Bleeding Edge character Daemon. This video for the Bleeding Edge character Daemon provides a look at the character’s abilities, supers, specials and just general tips and tricks on using him. Daemon is an augmented ninja who falls within the DPS category. His use of stealth is handy when you

By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 7 February 2020 22:02 GMT If there are a lot of games you’ve been waiting to grab on sale, then big retailer sales can help you fill up your collection in no time flat. Target will be holding a buy two get one free sale on games starting on Sunday, so

By Lauren Aitken, Thursday, 6 February 2020 22:41 GMT The Birds of Prey x Fortnite crossover event is now live, and there’s a bunch of new challenges to complete. The Harley Quinn skin is now available in the Fortnite store and there are new Always Fantabulous Harley challenges you can complete while wearing it. Once

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. This console cycle hasn’t been kind to Microsoft or the company’s gaming ambitions. Lifetime sales of the Xbox One are estimated at 46.52M units according to VGChartz. Call it 50 million by the time the Xbox Series X comes out,

Table Manners: The Physics-Based Dating Game is teaming up with NHS England this Valentine’s Day for a blood donation drive. UK publisher Curve Digital and Echo Chamber Games want to encourage players of Table Manners to start donating blood in partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant’s What’s Your Type? Valentine’s campaign. Players of Table Manners

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Warcraft 3: Reforged hasn’t gotten any more popular in the days since its release. The clamor has gotten bad enough that Blizzard has reportedly begun giving instant refunds to players who want them. That’s the word from Reddit user krOnicLTD,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Current-generation console sales have plunged more quickly than anticipated, as potential customers apparently hold off on purchases ahead of this year’s reveal. That’s the consistent messaging we’ve heard from multiple companies in the game console market, including AMD, GameStop, and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Several game streaming services have come and gone while Nvidia has been fiddling with its GeForce Now cloud gaming platform. It tried to launch once in 2015, but ended up going back to the drawing board with a new beta

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:38 GMT Code Vein, Bandai Namco’s action RPG inspired by the Souls series, has sold over one million copies. Code Vein hit over one million copies sold within five months of its fall release. The game’s official Twitter account announced the new good news today. Dearest Revenants, we’d

By Emily Gera, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:08 GMT Blizzard is now offering an automatic refund for players who feel disappointed in the recently released Warcraft 3: Reforged. While Blizzard has yet to make an official statement on the matter, the company is currently offering instant refunds for the remastered edition of Warcraft 3: Reign

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 2 February 2020 23:44 GMT Total War: Rome 2 – Enemy at the Gates will be the first PC games from Sega to officially ship with environmentally-friendly packaging. “We’re pleased to announce that all of our future physical releases of PC games will be launched in fully recycled packaging!” Sega revealed

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 1 February 2020 16:43 GMT Nintendo has updated the usability clause for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, noting only one island is allowed per console, irrespective of the number of user accounts on the Switch console. It was mentioned in the initial Animal Crossing: New Horizons announcement you could only have one island

By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 31 January 2020 21:31 GMT The Last of Us Part II may have been delayed to May, but that isn’t stopping companies from creating more swag to buy for the Naughty Boy title! Dark Horse is making The Art of The Last of Us Part II, and you can preorder the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia has been trying to make its GeForce Now streaming service a viable product for years, but it has yet to get all the kinks worked out. Google leapfrogged Nvidia when it launched Stadia late last year, offering cloud gaming

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 30 January 2020 19:51 GMT Blizzard has promised more frequent updates to Overwatch in the coming year, and the studio also plans to introduce an Experimental Card and Hero Pools. All of this was outlined in the latest Overwatch developer video by games director Jeff Kaplan. First off, Hero Pools are

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. According to research analytics firm SuperData, demand for Half-Life: Alyx drove VR sales sharply skywards in Q4. Valve, in particular, was the beneficiary of this trend: Sales of the company’s $999 Index VR system more than doubled from Q3 to

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Blizzard announced and launched Starcraft Remastered, the fan and critical response was excellent. People were pleased with the product and quality of the remaster and Blizzard was commended for the work it did. When the company announced Warcraft 3:

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We’re no strangers to expensive mechanical keyboards around here, but a popular Twitch streamer just showed all his subscribers how deep the keyboard rabbit hole can go. Turner “Tfue” Tenney just got his hands on his new custom keyboard, which

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 19:22 GMT Warcraft 3: Reforged is out and so is a patch. Blizzard has released a patch for Warcraft 3: Reforged which among other things updates all campaign characters and visual assets. You can also now toggle between Classic and Reforged mode for graphics, it also adds a

Pokemon Go players can start going up against one another in the Go Battle League. Niantic Labs has started rolling out a preseason trial of Go Battle League, which brings PvP to Pokemon Go. To make sure things go according to plan, the preseason will be rolled out based on Trainer level at the moment.

By Emily Gera, Monday, 27 January 2020 22:27 GMT Eight Atari-branded gaming hotels will be built across the United States later this year. The veteran gaming company today announced a partnership with strategy group GSD Group to build Atari Hotels – gaming hotels that will include VR and AR experiences, with select locations including gaming

Games industry veteran Hideo Kojima is interested in developing more projects outside of video games. Which probably isn’t a big surprise to anyone who has played his heavily film-inspired, cinematic games. Speaking in the February edition of Famitsu (as translated by DualShockers), Kojima and character artist Yiji Shinkawa described what projects they would like to

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:19 GMT GDC has released its annual State of the Industry Survey, and it finds that 34% of developers are making games for both current and next-gen consoles. According to the survey [PDF], while 34% are developing for both generations, 22% said they’re exclusively targeting current platforms. The

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 24 January 2020 19:52 GMT Studio Wildcard has announced a release date for the first of two drops for Ark: Genes. Ark: Genesis is the next chapter for Ark: Survival Evolved, and part one of the expansion will be released on February 25. The expansions contain new biomes and a new

Red Dead Redemption 2 saw a major uptick in digital sales when it released on Steam in December. According to a report from SuperData, Red Dead Redemption 2 received a “substantial boost” in digital sales after its launch on Steam. Figures state digital sales of the title more than doubled from 406K in November when it

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s two pieces of Half-Life related news today. First of all, the Half-Life: Alyx dev team has posted an AMA on Reddit, and they actually give some intriguing answers to what sorts of changes and design rules Valve has followed

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft surprised everyone with a teaser announcement of its upcoming Xbox Series X late last year. We didn’t get much aside from the name and a render of the monolithic case, but now a Twitter user has posted what appear

By James Pickard, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:06 GMT The Fanatical Lunar New Year sale is now live until 27th January with over 1500 games reduced by up 90 per cent. As there are so many games reduced it’s probably best if you hop over to the Lunar New Year sale page at Fanatical to see

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 17:34 GMT Microsoft has added 15 new titles to the Project xCloud Preview library. Participants in Microsoft’s Project xCloud Preview can play the 15 additional games from today, reports Windows Central. The new titles include Destiny 2, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, three Telltale titles, Wasteland 2, Civilization