Ash

Reporter and editor for the gaming section.

Humble Bundle announces the Conquer COVID-19 bundle

2 days

Humble Bundle has officially announced the Conquer COVID-19 bundle, where 100% of the proceeds support organisations responding to the coronavirus pandemic. The Conquer COVID-19 bundle contains $1,071 worth of awesome stuff, inclu...

Valve changing Steam auto-updates to help bandwidth during coronavirus pandemic

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3 days

Valve has announced that the company is changing how auto-updates on Steam work in order to keep your home’s internet bandwidth working at a stable speed during the coronavirus pandemic. “We know a lot of you (like us ...

GameStop instructs employees to tape plastic bags around hands while at work

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3 days

GameStop has reportedly told its employees to wrap a plastic bag around one hand in order to process purchases from customers using the chain’s new ‘delivery at door’ option. The report comes from The Boston Glob...

Certain custom Xbox settings temporarily deactivated by Microsoft

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3 days

Following an overwhelming surge in demand for online services, Microsoft has made the decision to temporarily deactivate the ability to upload custom gamerpics, club pics, and club backgrounds on all Xbox One consoles. The change ...

Physical versions of Resident Evil 3 may be delayed, warns Capcom

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5 days

Capcom has issued a statement saying that those in Europe may experience delays or availability issues over physical copies of the Resident Evil 3 remake due to the coronavirus pandemic. The global release date for the Resident Ev...

[UPDATE] Sony may slow PlayStation Network speeds across both Europe and the USA

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5 days

UPDATE: Gamers in the USA may notice that PlayStation Network download speeds may be slower, as Sony says it’s working with internet service providers across the USA to manage internet traffic. After originally announcing th...

Microsoft Flight Simulator breaks down its multiplayer mode

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6 days

Flight Simulator is one of the most hotly anticipated games of 2020 and, ahead of its eventual launch sometime this year, developer Asobo Studio has shared a video detailing Flight Simulator’s multiplayer mode. The game̵...

Minecraft Earth wants you to stay at and play from home

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7 days

Minecraft Earth has announced that it wants players to help flatten the curve by staying at home and, as such, the game has received an update to make it easier than ever to play from the comfort of your house. The update includes...

The Elder Scrolls: Blades launches on Nintendo Switch soon

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7 days

Bethesda’s free-to-play dungeon crawler, The Elder Scrolls: Blades, will be finally arriving on Nintendo Switch consoles this Spring 2020. The game’s Switch port was originally planned for an Autumn 2019 release but wa...

Fallout 76’s Wastelanders update has been delayed again

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7 days

The bad news is that the upcoming free Wastelanders update for Fallout 76 has been delayed, but the good news is that the release date has only been moved back by a week. This isn’t the first time Wastelanders has been delay...

Stay at home and play with three more free games from the Epic Store

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7 days

Happy Thursday! It’s time for your regularly scheduled article on this week’s free offerings from the Epic Games Store and you can now get World War Z, Figment, and Tormentor x Punisher for the low price of nothing! In...

Nintendo has donated 9,500 face masks to emergency services

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1 week

Nintendo of America has donated 9,500 N95 Particulate Respirator masks to emergency services, first responders, and health care providers in North Bend, Washington. A statement from the city of North Bend (via GamesIndustry.biz) s...

Photo Mode coming soon to Death Stranding on PlayStation 4

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1 week

Following the announcement that the PC version of Death Stranding would contain a Photo Mode, some PlayStation 4 players felt a little left out. However, Kojima Productions has now confirmed that Photo Mode is “coming soon&#...

Mixer launches new Education category

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1 week

Mixer has launched a new Education category for those who want to learn or want to share their knowledge with others, all from the comfort of your own computer. Regardless of whether you’re learning remotely due to imposed l...

Plague Inc. creator donates $250,000 to fight against COVID-19

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1 week

Plague Inc. creator Ndemic Creations has announced that the company has donated a quarter of a million dollars to charities and organisations who are helping fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds, donated on behalf of all...

Sony may slow PlayStation Network download speeds across Europe

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1 week

Those using the PlayStation Network may find themselves looking at slower download speeds, as Sony Interactive Entertainment says that it’s working with internet service providers in Europe to “manage download traffic&...

Bleeding Edge now available on Xbox One and Windows 10

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1 week

Ninja Theory’s electrifying online brawler Bleeding Edge is officially available on Xbox One consoles and Windows 10 PCs today and, as a nice bonus, it’s available through both Xbox Game Pass and the Xbox Play Anywhere...

Minecraft now has free educational content for those who need it during the COVID-19 pandemic

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1 week

Mojang has announced that some of the company’s favourite lessons from Minecraft: Education Edition are now available for free in the Minecraft Market, allowing those who wish to learn to do so in a fun and calm online envir...

Google announces Stadia Makers program for indie devs

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1 week

Google has officially announced its Stadia Makers program for the Google Stadia, a program which the company hopes will be the “first step into an expansion of self-publishing for experienced independent game developers.R...

Formula 1 goes virtual, uses F1 2019 game in place of physical races

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1 week

As any Formula 1 fan will know, the 2020 series of races have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the races aren’t gone entirely – they’re instead being played using the official CodemastersR...