Winding down towards the end of the month means that it’s that exciting time again. The time when PS Plus and Xbox Gold subscribers everywhere find out what FREE games they’ll be gifted to play as part of their membership. And June doesn’t look to disappoint. This is one of the broadest mix of games...
While recently it’s often felt like triple-A publishers have been biding their time during the first half of 2020, June is the month where things get serious for pretty much every console platform. Not only does it see cult classic games faithfully restored (a running theme for this year), but you have publishers like Sony...
As well as granting us with a slew of remasters and remakes, 2020 also appears to be the year where established franchises have decided to change tack and move to a top-down perspective. First there was Darksiders Genesis’s release on home consoles. Then Gears Tactics on PC. And now you have Minecraft Dungeons for PS4,...
Comparing Saints Row to GTA is kind of like comparing a Porsche to a Ford Ka. Sure, they’re similar in that both ostensibly deliver the same core experience, but one always feels significantly more premium than the other. Saints Row: The Third saw the sandbox series lean into these wacky eccentricities more than ever, looking...
While its main competitor Microsoft has been all too happy to discuss Xbox Series X out in the open, Sony has remained surprisingly quiet when it comes to PS5. We know that it’ll be arriving some time in holiday 2020, but so far, any information we’ve learned has come in dribs and drabs. Well, a...
While some people claim that PSVR doesn’t have any good games, those who own one know that this simply isn’t the case. Iron Man VR is boosting its way exclusively to the platform this 3rd July just to prove it, releasing simultaneously alongside this new bundle. Announced today over on the PlayStation Blog, it comes...
Sometimes a piece of cool gaming history never intended to be seen by player eyes crops up on the internet, shedding light on a weird parallel world highlighting what could have bee. The latest instance of this happened yesterday when a new video surfaced online seemingly showing Gears of War 3 being played on a...
Just when you thought we’d seen the last of special edition PS4 consoles, today Sony has revealed via a post on the PlayStation blog that a suite of new products will be released to coincide with the release of The Last of Us 2. The headline act is a uniquely designed PS4 Pro £349.99) complete with...
Five big takeaways from the Ghost of Tsushima State of Play | Console deals blog
We previously heard that there were big things planned this year to celebrate Super Mario's 35th birthday, and it would appear that Nintendo is now finally ready to start showing off some of the stuff that's in store. Paper Mario: The Origami King was just surprised announced today, serving as an all-new entry in the...
Game Review: The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners | Console deals blog
The ongoing pandemic has led video game developers and the publishers behind them to think out of the box when it comes to promoting their games over the summer period. Usually folks like EA, Ubisoft and Activision would team up with a platform-holder (or hold their own press conferences) at E3 in order to tantalise...
There are several reasons why players should be excited about Xbox Series X’s arrival this Holiday 2020. But arguably one of the biggest is the promise of what Microsoft has dubbed “Smart Delivery”. Now, we wouldn’t blame you if this turn of phrase meant absolutely nothing to you, but it’s perhaps best described as a...
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Xbox Game Pass is currently one of the best deals in gaming. Not only because members gain instant access to a rotating library of 100 games, but because several new ones come to the service throughout the month – as was evidenced over on the official...
A few days ago we received word that Xbox would be holding a pretty substantial digital event with the intention to show us some Xbox Series X games. “The Xbox Game Studios teams are hard at work on some big summer plans”, a Microsoft spokesperson said. And while we won’t get a good look at...
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