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Supporters of Frontier Development’s Elite Dangerous are now able to get their hands on a playable chunk of the game. The alpha offers a small taste of what the full game will offer, focusing on the mechanic that sees players redistributing power through three channels – weapons, engines and shields. …
Read More »Hello Games to "risk everything all over again" with No Man’s Sky
UK studio Hello Games realises that attempting to break into the increasingly crowded ‘Is This The Next Elite?’ genre is a risk. It’s freshly revealed game No Man’s Sky (the trailer for which can be seen below) was the surprise hit of last weekend’s VGX Awards. And the Joe Danger …
Read More »VIDEO: Quantum Break is “the ultimate Remedy experience”
New trailer shows first gameplay footage from next-gen time travel action game
Read More »VIDEO: First Quantum Break gameplay footage shown
The weekend’s VGX Awards offered up the first gameplay footage from upcoming Xbox One exclusive Quantum Break. The Remedy-developed title revolves around an experiment that has effectively ‘broken’ time, effectively paving the way for a number of set-pieces in which the game takes place. Players will as a result be …
Read More »VIDEO: Big Ant releases new Don Bradman Cricket 14 trailer
The cancellation of Ashes Cricket 2013 isn’t all bad news for video game cricket fans. News of 505’s misfortune may mean that cricket lovers may have to wait a bit longer than expected, but a cricket game is at least on the way. Developer Big Ant has – opportunistically – …
Read More »VIDEO: See EA’s next-gen FIFA 14 TV ad
EA is aware you may have already bought FIFA 14 once, but the arrival of Xbox One and PS4 is a good reason to upgrade. Its new TV ad for the next-gen version of the game sees a gamer undergo a living room transformation, becoming a CGI version of Barcelona …
Read More »Twitch now the biggest video site for gamers
More gamers are tuning in to Twitch for their gaming videos than any other site. Analytics firm comScore found the video platform to boast the largest audience and most-engaged users across all sites dedicated to the gaming audience. Despite not naming the firms specifically, comScore claims Twitch has over ten …
Read More »VIDEO: See Xbox One’s ‘snap’ in action
Microsoft has released a video showing how its ‘snap’ feature will work on Xbox One. The new console specialises in running apps simultaneously, meaning that gamers can have other things displayed on screen at the same time as they game. As shown below, users need only call out a command …
Read More »VIDEO: Microsoft’s shows off Xbox One’s slick UI
The Xbox One’s Kinect-controlled UI is the focus of a new video from Microsoft. It starts with the assertion that the clip was recorded on November 1st using live Xbox One code – thereby disproving the unfounded rumours recently doing the rounds claiming that Microsoft was struggling with the console’s …
Read More »VIDEO: Next-gen FIFA 14 in action again
EA is certainly keen to press home the advantages that its next-gen version of FIFA 14 will offer. Although it has been explained before, the below video is another chance to look at both the extra animations the PS4 and Xbox One versions will offer, as well as the more …
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