Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 now contains microtransactions, much to the disappointment of fans. This isn’t exactly new news, we knew that they were coming to the game, we just didn’t know in which fashion they would be implemented. You’re now able to buy the in-game currency ‘COD Points’ on the PS4 version of … Read more
If you love building and management sims (and let’s be honest, who doesn’t?) then you probably couldn’t resist trying out Theme Hospital’s spiritual successor Two Point Hospital when it released back in August, but if you’re not interested in humour and you want your management sims to be a more serious affair, then Project Hospital … Read more
Two Point Hospital was one of my favourite PC games this year; the nostalgia hit hard as soon as I booted up the game for the first time, but there were a few annoyances with the game that stopped me giving Two Point Hospital an even better review than I did, and two of those … Read more
Valve’s upcoming virtual card game Artifact has had it’s beta test delayed. Valve has let players who registered their interesting in taking part in the beta know of the delay by sending out a notification email. The email informs them that the date of the beta has been pushed back to 19th November. A copy … Read more
Laptops are great; you can work almost anywhere, but when you have some down time and want to play a game, laptops—in general—can’t handle much (unless you have a gaming laptop of course). However, with the rise of indie developers, there is now a whole host of games that will run just fine on almost … Read more
There’s no shortage of Battle Royale games these days. Ever since Fortnite became the phenomenon that it has, it seems like 1 in every 3 of new game releases come with some form of the hugely popular game mode. This is fine, as long as studios put their own spin on it instead of just … Read more
It wasn’t even on the roadmap, no one knew it was coming, it just appeared out of nowhere. Prison Architect has received a multiplayer update. I’ll let that sink in. Before you get too excited about running a prison with friends, it’s important to note that this is currently in beta/alpha stage, so you have … Read more
The world is weird sometimes. Only yesterday, I wrote a piece about whether downloadable content was good for gaming, discussing the impact that paid DLC and microtransactions have had on the gaming industry, and then today we get news that PEGI—the European game ratings board—is going to start putting a little icon on video game … Read more
Nvidia has recently announced their new line of high-end graphics cards named the RTX 2000 series. In total there will be three separate cards, including the RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and the RTX 2080 Ti. These cards will, of course, be replacing their current high-end GPUs (GTX 1070, GTX 1080 and the GTX 1080 Ti). … Read more
Blizzard have revealed details about the next new map coming to Overwatch, and it takes us to the second-largest city in South Korea – Busan. The map—named Busan (duh)—will be a Control map which means that it will take place across three different locations as detailed in Blizzards trailer for the map during Korea Fanfest. … Read more