Gaming

News, reviews and opinion from our team of gaming geeks. If it shoots, drives, runs, fights and comes on a console, chances are it’s in here.

No Xbox 720 in 2012 says Microsoft France

No Xbox 720 in 2012 says Microsoft France

Microsoft France’s marketing director Cedrick Delmas has stated in an interview with Lepoint.fr that the Xbox 720 will not be released this [...]

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Nintendo Wii U launching in time for Christmas 2012

Nintendo Wii U launching in time for Christmas 2012

Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata has stated that the Wii U will launch in the US, Europe, Japan and Australia before the end [...]

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Xbox Live games coming to Android and iOS

Xbox Live games coming to Android and iOS

The interweb rumour mill has served up an unlikely twist in the world of mobile gaming, with the news that Microsoft is [...]

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Nintendo Wii U to work with NFC

Nintendo Wii U to work with NFC

Near-field communication is starting to find its way into more and more devices – and now Nintendo’s adding it to the Wii [...]

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Angry Birds to land on Facebook for Valentine’s Day

Angry Birds to land on Facebook for Valentine’s Day

Some guys have all the luck. Apparently Cupid saw Facebook bathing in cash and decided to spear its heart with a billet-doux [...]

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Mechatars is an online/offline robot war game

Mechatars is an online/offline robot war game

If proof were needed that we’re about to get confused about what’s real and what’s not, Mechatars present a strong case. The [...]

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Xbox 720 to arrive in 2013 and pack Radeon 6000 graphics

According to reports on IGN, the next-gen Xbox 720 will land on a shelf near you come late October or early November [...]

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Review: Grabatron for iOS and Android

Review: Grabatron for iOS and Android

Like a five-year-old child to a fairground arcade mechanical claw game, we were compelled to play Grabatron the moment we saw it [...]

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Gaikai’s cloud gaming will bring World of Warcraft to Facebook

Gaikai’s cloud gaming will bring World of Warcraft to Facebook

Gaikai has revealed that its cloud gaming service is ready to roll out on Facebook in an effort to bring fully-fledged PC [...]

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Review: LostWinds

Review: LostWinds

Ported from a WiiWare game from 2008, the charm and ingenuity of LostWinds should make it a real gem of a game. [...]

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Fragging rights: Thermaltake and BMW’s Level 10 M gaming mouse

Fragging rights: Thermaltake and BMW’s Level 10 M gaming mouse

Opinion in the StuffMidEast office is divided as to whether this minimalist gaming mouse from BMW Designworks USA and PC case makers [...]

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 to pack more grunt than Xbox 360

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 to pack more grunt than Xbox 360

Qualcomm has announced it’s working the next generation of mobile Snapdragon chips boasting the ability for console-quality gaming on [...]

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Sony says “No” to PlayStation 4 at E3

Sony’s Kaz Hirai has dashed the hopes of PlayStation fans by revealing that Sony will not be making any PlayStation 4 announcements [...]

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Xbox 360 outsells PlayStation 3 by 2.7 million

Xbox 360 outsells PlayStation 3 by 2.7 million

The Xbox 360 was 2011’s top-selling console, with Microsoft shifting 2.7 million more than nearest rival Sony’s PlayStation 3.
According to NPD sales [...]

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Microsoft Xbox 720 to pack DVR functionality?

Microsoft Xbox 720 to pack DVR functionality?

Microsoft’s Xbox 720 may be making an appearance at CES next week and patents suggesting the inclusion of DVR functionality in the [...]

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Nintendo 3DS Lite in the works

Nintendo 3DS Lite in the works

The Nintendo 3DS may be joining you in a 2012 slimming regime, as rumours of a 3DS Lite have begun circling the [...]

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Xbox 720 and PS4 will be announced at E3 this June

Xbox 720 and PS4 will be announced at E3 this June

Both the Sony PlayStation 4 and the Microsoft Xbox 720 will be launched this June at E3 2012.
Today is a big day [...]

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Nintendo Wii U could be getting ebooks

Nintendo Wii U could be getting ebooks

Nintendo is planning to unleash an ebook download service for its upcoming Nintendo Wii console, according to ForgetTheBox [...]

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Sony PS Vita launch games announced

Sony PS Vita launch games announced

The Sony PS Vita, out in the UAE in February, has just had its launch game titles and prices announced. And with [...]

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EA launches Christmas iOS games sale

EA launches Christmas iOS games sale

Those of you with an iDevice – or indeed, those of who will be unwrapping one this Sunday – will be glad [...]

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The world’s first 3D HTML 5 game: GT Racing: Motor Academy

The world’s first 3D HTML 5 game: GT Racing: Motor Academy

GT Racing: Motor Academy has launched on Google+ as the world’s first 3D HTML 5 online game. Of course that means a [...]

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My Xbox LIVE app comes to iPhone and iPad

My Xbox LIVE app comes to iPhone and iPad

Sneaky sneaky Microsoft. With the Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE dashboard update came news of a shiny new Windows Phone companion app with [...]

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All future Xbox apps to be Kinect friendly

All future Xbox apps to be Kinect friendly

Microsoft has shown its commitment to its Kinect wonder-cam by stating that all future updates and apps must support Kinect movement and [...]

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Make your own games with StencyIWorks

Make your own games with StencyIWorks

Just because you think Java’s a type of coffee and C++ was the grade you got in GCSE maths doesn’t mean you [...]

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Nintendo 3DS now has 3D video recording

Nintendo 3DS now has 3D video recording

Ninty’s delayed firmware update to our Gaming Gadget of the Year, the Nintendo 3DS, has just gone live – and it’s just [...]

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Review: Saints Row: The Third

Review: Saints Row: The Third

For years, the Saints Row franchise has laboured under the sneers of those who consider it a poor man’s Grand Theft Auto. [...]

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Fallout studio Obsidian making South Park RPG

Fallout studio Obsidian making South Park RPG

A South Park game video game is set to be developed for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC by Fallout: New Vegas studio [...]

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Need to know: Xbox 360 dashboard update

Need to know: Xbox 360 dashboard update

Xbox 360 update – Metro. This is your new UI, and if you’ve got a Windows Phone Mango handset like the Nokia Lumia 800 or the [...]

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Kinect 2 will read your lips

Kinect 2 will read your lips

Sources have revealed to Eurogamer that the next version of Microsoft’s Kinect device will be accurate enough to lip read.
Improved motion sensing [...]

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Nintendo 3DS firmware update put on hold till December

Nintendo 3DS firmware update put on hold till December

Nintendo 3DS gamers who have been impatiently waiting for the planned November firmware update to land have been dealt a hard blow [...]

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GameGadget puts retro games in a handheld

GameGadget puts retro games in a  handheld

If you still have fond memories of early handheld consoles like the Gameboy, this announcement will be right up your street. Blaze, [...]

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New Xbox 360 dashboard landing on December 6

New Xbox 360 dashboard landing on December 6

Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox 360 dashboard will be getting a fresh new look on 6 December [...]

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Review: Halo: Combat Evolved – Anniversary

Review: Halo: Combat Evolved – Anniversary

Like a Blue Peter time capsule, this reworking of the original Halo shows just how much gaming has changed since Master Chief [...]

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Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Let’s get this out of the way from the off: Skyrim is a bit of a rubbish name for a game, especially [...]

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Review: Battlefield 3

Review: Battlefield 3

Bold strikes don’t come bolder than this. Battlefield 3 is out to topple Call of Duty off its perch. Yes, that Call [...]

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Review: Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

Review: Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

Assassin’s Creed Revelations sees a battle-worn Ezio Auditore follow in the footsteps of legendary assassin Altair, in a journey which leads him [...]

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Review: Super Mario 3D Land

Review: Super Mario 3D Land

Mario’s first major outing on the 3DS has to walk a tightrope. On one hand it’s designed to be catnip for die-hard [...]

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Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Modern Warfare 3 smacks of familiarity. Once again the story is a barrage of military jargon that’s as impenetrable as Will Self [...]

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Review: F1 2011

Review: F1 2011

After defying the expectations of yet another F1 game disappointment with F1 2010, Codemasters have returned with an update that is every [...]

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Review: Forza Motorsport 4

Review: Forza Motorsport 4

Forza Motorsport 4 sure knows how to start our engines. Although you’ll have to listen to Jeremy Clarkson prattle on for a [...]

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Review: Batman: Arkham City

Review: Batman: Arkham City

Batman’s back and as ever there’s a whole lot of trouble going down in Gotham City. The premise of Arkham City is [...]

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iOS and Android games more popular than handheld consoles

iOS and Android games more popular than handheld consoles

A quick look about on the train could have told you smartphone gaming is more popular than handheld consoles, but who would [...]

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New Microsoft Xbox 720 codenamed ‘loop’

New Microsoft Xbox 720 codenamed ‘loop’

With the Xbox 360 going on six years young, there have been a lot of rumours circulating in the techosphere about its [...]

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Xbox.com gets new social features

Xbox.com gets new social features

Gamers logging on to Xbox.com today will notice that it’s has undergone a bit of a revamp, with new social networking features [...]

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