Friday the 13th and Ninja Gaiden 3 headline October’s Games with Gold

Microsoft has announced the batch of freebies that will be available to download as part of October’s Games with Gold offerings. First up is Tembo the Badass Elephant (no honestly, that’s a real game), a side-scrolling platformer in which the titular Tembo must “smash, punch, and butt stomp” his enemies in a bid to save … Read more

PUBG Lite arrives in Europe next month

PUBG Lite, a dialled down version of Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) will be released as a free-to-play standalone title next month. A free-to-play version of PUBG has been rumoured for quite some time, given the success of other F2P battle royale shooters like Fortnite and Apex Legends. It’s long seemed like a logical move for … Read more

Overwatch PTR gets massive patch with changes to 13 heroes

A massive patch for Blizzard’s team based shooter Overwatch has been released on the Public Test Region (PTR). The patch has been named as a Remaster by Blizzard in their patch notes, and makes changes to 13 of the game’s heroes. Patch 1.41 will require a hefty 8GB download on all platforms. As usual, patches … Read more

Mario Kart Tour has an optional £4.99 monthly subscription

Nintendo’s new free-to-play mobile game, Mario Kart Tour, launched on the app stores today along with a rather bizarre optional £4.99 monthly subscription. The subscription will give you access to gold cosmetic items, as well as access to races in 200cc karts and that’s it, new characters are hidden behind other in-app purchases. What makes … Read more

Project xCloud launches in public beta next month

The upcoming Xbox streaming platform by Microsoft known ‘xCloud’ will be entering public beta in select countries (UK, US and Korea) next month, as confirmed by Microsoft during Septembers Inside Xbox live stream. Microsoft first announced xCloud a little over a year ago, and since then we’ve seen various gameplay videos and small snippets of … Read more

Modern Warfare’s Survival Mode is exclusive to PS4 for an entire year, and that’s absolutely not okay

During tonight’s PlayStation State of Play livestream, a new story trailer was shown for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. It was pretty impressive stuff, but it’s getting attention for one very wrong reason, that being that a short section at the end revealed that the traditional Survival Mode portion of this years Spec Ops mode … Read more

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening tops UK sales chart

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening has debuted at the top of the UK physical sale chart. The Nintendo Switch exclusive remake has had an extremely successful launch, not just in terms of sales but also with fans of the series and critics alike. Zelda: Link’s Awakening knocks the equally impressive Borderlands 3 from the … Read more

Borderlands 3 sells over 5 million copies in first 5 days, setting new records with 2K

Borderlands 3 only launched 10 days ago (September 13th) but has already seen record sales, according to publisher 2K Games. The loot-based shooter amassed over five million copies sold in its first 5 days, with 70% of those sales being digital. That sales figure is double that of it’s predecessor, Borderlands 2, making the new … Read more

Batman crossover is now live in Fortnite

The Batman crossover has launched and is now live in Fortnite. Check out the short announcement trailer below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPETg3s3yYMVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Fortnite X Batman Announce Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPETg3s3yYM) To help celebrate the 80th anniversary of our caped crusader, a Batman crossover event has landed in Fortnite. This event will last until … Read more