Category: Gaming
GTA Online gives players a “Festive Surprise”
Rockstar has announced the latest update to Grand Theft Auto Online, which should make murdering people in a virtual city seem a little bit more... festive. In addition to bug fixes and a boost in the number of properties you can now own, the here's what Rockstar says is being added: "EXPLOSIVE STOCKING STUFFERS Brand…
Ubisoft releases gigantic patch for Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Good news! One month on and Assassin's Creed: Unity might finally be playable... as long as you download a gigantic patch. According to Eurogamer, the patch for the PS4 version is 6.7GB big. It's almost though the notoriously bugged game wasn't actually finished. Worse still, for Xbox One players the 'patch' clocks in at 40GB…
Is Nintendo working on a “doughnut” shaped device?!
Reports suggest that Nintendo is working on a device with a screen that will have a hole in the middle. Why? We've no idea. The news comes courtesy of the Japan Times, which reports that Nintendo will be using Sharp's "Free-Form LCDs", which apparently can be manufactured in any shape the client wants - and…
PS4 Remote Play unofficially ported to non-Xperia smartphones
Ever wanted to play Far Cry 4 or The Last Of Us on the go? If you're an Android user and you have a PS4, you might just be in luck thanks to a new port. The Droid Guy reports that a coder called TheScriptKitty has managed to port over Sony's Remote Play app to…
Is Microsoft building an Xbox game streaming service?
Could you soon be playing Xbox One games on your phone, tablet or PC? Sounds crazy but it just might happen, if rumours are to be believed. The muttering comes via ZDNet which reports that Microsoft is building a new "streaming app and game service", code name Arcadia. The suggestion is that such a technology…
Is Advanced Warfare not selling as well as Ghosts?
Oh dear - despite stepping things up a notch critically, it seems that this year's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare isn't performing as well as last year's Ghosts. The conventional thinking had been that AW is an an improvement on Call of Duty: Ghosts, and critically it does seem to be (thanks, Kevin Spacey) -…
Sony: Stop using the laws of supply and demand to sell your 20th anniversary PS4s
Fresh from, umm, asking journalists not to cover the Sony Pictures hack, it has now emerged that Sony don't want consumers selling their 20th anniversary edition PlayStations either. A couple of weeks ago Sony announced it was making some custom PS4s styled like the original PlayStation for the brand's 20th anniversary, and the company even…
The UK Top 10 video games chart: FIFA 15 stays at the top of the table
[nextpage title="Next"] FIFA 15 remains at No.1 in the run-up to Christmas and the Top Five remains the same, with Activision’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare at No.2, Rockstar/Take 2’s Grand Theft Auto V at No.3, Ubisoft’s Far Cry 4 at No.4 and Warner’s Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham at No.5. Ubisoft’s Just Dance 2015…
Is Xbox One getting semi-transparent tiles soon?
Could Microsoft be planning to give the Xbox One home screen a bit of a refit? Check out the above screenshot that was taken by one eagle-eyed Redditor named "mkmkd", who was watching a Twitch livestream by Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb and spotted the change. Notice how the tiles, rather than being solid blocks…
Is patching making games worse?
In the run-up to Christmas we've seen the release of a slew of AAA titles - the multi-million dollar blockbusters of the gaming world. But there has been a bit of a theme. Specifically, disappointment. Perhaps most famously there has been the release of Assassin's Creed: Unity, which was riddled with bugs - including the…
