Shock good news about video games! When they're not training us to cold-heartedly murder people with guns, explosives and knives, video games might actually be useful in treating eye problems thanks to work by doctors who have successfully treated lazy eyes with good old Tetris. Read More >>
Chances are you've got some old video game controllers sitting in your closet somewhere. A good-old PlayStation Dual Shock, maybe a N64 controller, or some Donkey Konga Bongos. And you'll never use them again. So clear out that space and preserve their memory with a comprehensive controller family tree. Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"What a rubbish graph, the controllers seem to be inconsistently and stupidly connected (Playstation 2 to Gamecube), includes shit like a Wu-tang contr..." More »
It's that time of the month again when the good folk at the PS Store reveal what they'll be giving away to Plus subscribers over the coming weeks, so let's get out of diaries and schedule some downloads shall we? Read More >>
The temptation of freemium is too much for some people, mainly people under the legal drinking age. It seems almost every week some kid has managed to spend ungodly sums of money on a load of shitty in-app purchases in some crappy game. Now the Office of Fair Trading has had enough. It's investigating whether these tactics are "misleading, commercially aggressive or otherwise unfair"; I'd say all of the above. Read More >>
Featured comment by HughB:
"AFAIK there's a 15 minute window (on iOS anyway) where you won't need to re-enter your password. I think you can change that so you need to enter it e..." More »
An indie coder has rebuilt the Halo developer's first commercial release, which is now available to download on the Mac App Store for free. But Halo it most certainly isn't. Read More >>
Microsoft is said to be planning an Xbox event for May 21st, which it's likely to use as a springboard to give us our first official look at the company's next generation home console. Read More >>
Featured comment by Lewis West:
"Noun
apophenia (plural apophenias)
(psychology) The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena." More »
Game publisher Sega has already come in for heaps of criticism over its Colonial Marines title, with the finished Aliens shooter bearing only a passing resemblance to earlier adverts and preview code. And the Advertising Standards people have upheld a player's complaint about the apparent bait and switch. Read More >>
Featured comment by Southern:
"I will have to look out for it when it is cheap during a sale or something. Speaking of cheap games, I was surprised to see the new Hitman game discou..." More »
You know a chess piece when you see one. They might be the most recognisable objects in gaming. But they didn't always look that way. In fact, for the longest time they didn't even look a way. The Smithsonian Magazine dug into the roots of that iconic design and it's not as old as you might think. Read More >>
Featured comment by magicguppy:
"That'll be it. The other thing that's totally worth checking out is the carved stone balls - there's one called the Towie stone (named after the place..." More »
"We’re all going on a summer holiday, no more working for a week or two, fun and laughter on a summer holiday, blah de blah blah blah blah..." Read More >>
Ask anyone who was an avid gamer in the 1990s what the greatest console game of all time is, and a vast majority will say GoldenEye on the N64. Many of us lost a good chunk of our childhood to the game's fantastic multiplayer mode and its wonderful weaponry, including the dastardly remote mines which you can now enjoy in real life. Read More >>
Featured comment by Retuer:
"Or... Buy an old PC joystick PC Commander Pro), and spray it grey, add a few LEDs, and throw in a cheapo red button! Almost wish I'd kept mine - only ..." More »
James Payne, who died of liver cancer at the tragically young age of 24, was scanned and photographed by developers and will appear as a character in the next Total War update. He'll live on as a CG grunt for all eternity. Read More >>
Everyone likes blowing things up don't they? There's nothing like an explosion to get your pulse racing. Of course, you can't set off bombs on your street, but you can indulge in some Fun Snaps action! Read More >>
Every time the football World Cup rolls around (as well as any number of other times), those of us who aren't into football ask ourselves this question: we do people care about sports at all? Vsauce has taken the question a bit further, and dug into why we—as a species—play games at all. Nerds, we've got more in common with those jocks than we might have thought. [Vsauce] Read More >>
If your favourite websites just aren't as captivating as they used to be, the latest Chrome experiment should breathe some life back into them. Just feed it a website and the World Wide Maze will automatically deconstruct and turn it into a 3D marble maze that can be controlled using your smartphone's accelerometer. Read More >>
A new leak seems to reinforce claims that Microsoft's next-generation "Durango" Xbox will require mandatory game installation and have an "always on, always connected" internet policy. Read More >>
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