Activision Lays of Staff despite a “record year”
It’s safe to say that the gaming industry in its current form is doing better than ever before, financially at least. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick recently gleefully informed investors that the company had experienced a “record year” in sales; but alas, at the...
Anti-Consumerism in Gaming: Can it be Stopped?
The gaming industry today is thriving and doing better than ever, yet, it is a time marked by that of a rise in corporate greed and anti-consumerism; but is this merely a symptom of it’s success or is it an issue that we need to deal with? Myself, along with...
Are console exclusive games anti-consumer?
A big debate involving the video game industry nowadays is to do with exclusives. You see a trailer for a new game that has just come out, it looks absolutely amazing and you can’t wait to play it. You own an Xbox One but you realise at the end that the game you were...
Five games rumoured to be announced or shown at the Game Awards 2018
Every year so far that the Game Awards have been celebrated has also brought along with it a number of game reveals ranging from triple A studios to small, indie developers. This year is no different but this time host of the show Geoff Keighley has teased that this...
Game Awards 2018: The biggest, most ambitious yet
Every year we have the Oscars and the Baftas… but what about video games? For the past four years, industry expert and video game expert Geoff Keighley has paved the way for video games to be given the recognition they deserve by hosting a yearly award show...
Teatime news round-up
Good afternoon everyone, and congratulations on making it to the end of yet another day, here on Planet Earth. But realistically who cares about Earth these days? On Monday, after a seven month long journey hurtling through space at unfathomable speeds, Nasa’s...
Gaming Round up on Jame live
Dael, Ollie and Joe cover these years best and worst games in the 40-minute podcast, where we talk Fallout 76, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Hitman 2....
Bethesda investigated over Fallout 76 release
Games company Bethesda could be hit with a pretty sizable lawsuit after the recent release of their new MMO game Fallout 76. The 8thgame in the much loved Fallout Series 76 was the first time that the series was to be taken to the online market. Bethesda...
Review: Hitman 2 – Assassin Boogaloo
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R8aRCwbZGek" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> In 2016 Io Interactive released Hitman, the soft...
All you need to know about Red Dead Online
Early access to the Red Dead Redemption online beta starts today at 1:30pm today. But how well will such a brilliant story driven game will do when it takes its first steps into the online world of gaming and how excited should we be? In an interview yesterday a...
Rainbow Six Siege: next season revealed
Ubisoft have finally teased the next big DLC update, ‘Operation Wind Bastion’, which will also be the last major release for Siege’s third year of post-launch content. In typical pre-annoncement fashion, the Rainbow Six Twitter account released a...
Red Dead Redemption 2 smashes entertainment box office records
The prequel to the original cult classic Red Dead Redemption has generated over $725 million (£650m) in it’s opening weekend hailing the title of ‘the second biggest entertainment launch of all time’. Second only to Rockstar games’ own Grand Theft Auto 5, RDR2 also...