Ash

Reporter and editor for the gaming section.

Borderlands 3 won’t feature cross-play at launch

5 hours

A tweet from Randy Pitchford has revealed that the extremely hotly anticipated and long awaited Borderlands 3 will not have any sort of cross-play at launch. Some folks may be speculating that this thing tomorrow may be about cros...

Pokémon GO and One Piece are teaming up for a good cause

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6 hours

As of July 22nd, Pokémon GO players will find themselves inundated by a swarm of cheeky Pikachu clad in an iconic straw hat. The hat, of course, is the same one as the protagonist of One Piece – Monkey D. Luffy – wear...

Review: The AirUnleashed Wireless Charging Mat is efficient, but not necessarily a necessity

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6 hours

Earlier this year, Apple completely cancelled and scrapped its AirPower charging product due to the product ‘not meeting their standards’. However, there’s now an alternative in the form of the AirUnleashed. The ...

Tropico 6 coming to consoles later this year

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6 hours

Tropico 6, the construction and management simulation game where you play as El Presidente and try your best to support and/or destroy your own island nation, is finally coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game has been out ...

Amazon Prime Day Deal: Pick up a Phantom White Xbox One controller and Chat Headset for $69

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12 hours

Yesterday, we reported on how you can bag yourself an Xbox One S All-Digital console and a Phantom White controller for just $200. Today, we’re back to let you know that, if you’ve already got an Xbox console, you can ...

The Faceoff Deluxe+ Audio Wired Controller from PDP Gaming is now up for pre-order

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13 hours

Back at the start of April, we reported on the Faceoff Deluxe+ Audio Wired Controller from PDP Gaming, which is all about making communication clearer for Nintendo Switch players. The controller features support for Vivox’s ...

Deal Alert: The PlayStation Classic is going for just $19.99 at Best Buy

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Amazon Prime Day is here and with it comes a thousand and one deals such as an Xbox One S All-Digital and a Phantom White controller for just $200 and Sony noise-cancelling, wireless headphones from $99.99. Not to be outdone, howe...

Amazon Prime Day Deal: Get yourself an Xbox One S All-Digital and a Phantom White controller for just $200

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1 day

This Prime Day, you can snap up a fancy Xbox One S All-Digital console and a Phantom White controller for just $200 (thanks, Windows Central, for pointing out this deal!) The Xbox One S All-Digital edition was created by Microsoft...

The Sims 4 is officially being rebranded

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2 days

On July 12th, during the July Maxis Monthly lifestream, it was revealed that The Sims 4 is set to be completely renovated and revamped, with aesthetic overhauls and brand new additions to the game. The rebrand represents the commi...

Ubisoft and HitRecord are partnering up to get your music in Watch Dogs: Legion

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2 days

Ubisoft has partnered up with HitRecord in order to give fans of Watch Dogs: Legion the chance to get their own music in the upcoming post-Brexit game. The news was broken by an article from Rock Paper Shotgun, which also points o...

GOG Galaxy 2.0 update now lets you hide games

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2 days

GOG Galaxy 2.0, the desktop launcher from CD Projekt’s GOG that takes all your games and puts them all in once place, has received a fresh update that corrects a few bugs and introduces new features. The launcher is capable ...

Blizzard testing out an anti-cheat system for Overwatch

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3 days

In a July developer update, Overwatch lead designer Jeff Kaplan said that Blizzard is introducing a new system that, upon detecting hacks or cheats being used in Overwatch, just shuts down the current match. Kaplan said that the s...

Gears 5 will be a completely smoke-free game

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4 days

Gears 5, the latest and upcoming instalment in the Gears of Wars series, is set to be completely free from smoking and all smoking-related references. According to a report from Variety, the decision to go smoke-free was made afte...

G2A proposes a key blocker tool for game devs

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4 days

In the wake of indie game developers banding together to oppose G2A and G2A responding to the allegations of illegally acquired keys being resold on the site, G2A has now proposed the creation of a ‘key blocking tool’ ...

Man of Medan will have two different multiplayer modes

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5 days

In a recent blog post on the PlayStation Blog, Pete Samuels, Series Director and Executive Producer of The Dark Pictures Anthology, revealed that multiplayer mode will be available for every single instalment in the upcoming cinem...

Valve introduces Steam Labs

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5 days

Valve has introduced the new Steam Labs tab – a way for you to try, share, and potentially break the company’s current works in progress before sharing your feedback. The three current active experiments for you to che...

[UPDATE] Chinese government revokes Indievent’s business license, shuts down company

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6 days

UPDATE 10th of July 2019: Khee Hoon, a Chinese journalist, has tweeted that the Chinese government was actually “Very Specific” about why they revoked Indievent’s business license. The reason why it's revoked...

A Pokémon card worth $60,000 has ‘gotten lost’ in the mail

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6 days

Last August, a buyer on eBay dropped an entire $60,000 on an extremely rare Pokémon card. It’s now July 2019, and the card has apparently vanished off the face of the earth. YouTuber smpratte, a trading card connoisseur, po...

A Short Hike coming to Steam and Itch.io with new content this July

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6 days

A Short Hike is an exploration game that’s based around, well, taking a short hike up a mountain. The game was first released as a Humble Original back in April 2019, and it’s now heading to Steam and Itch.io on July 3...

The Amazon Alexa will soon be able to tell you if you’re dying

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7 days

Starting this week, those in the UK with an Amazon Alexa will be able to ask their device to search the official NHS website for health and medical advice. Your Alexa won’t actually be capable of diagnosing you with anything...