Minecrafts Halo Mash-up Pack Ported to PC!
The Halo mash-up pack has been ported from the Xbox version of Minecraft to the PC version!
Xbox Live And PSN May Be Down This Christmas
Hacker group PhantomSquad is threatening to take the gaming networks related to Xbox and PlayStation consoles offline for a week during Christmas, mirroring a similar attack last year that stopped gamers around the world from accessing games
Halo: The Fall of Reach Released
Halo: The Fall of Reach Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD Today
Sony gives up on the PS Vita
All first party development for the PS Vita has now completely stopped at Sony, as they confirm all their own internal teams are working on the PS4.
Understanding Fallout 4’s UI Design
Bethesda often get a lot of flack from their fans about their menu design. But there are a lot of valid reasons why it looks the way that it does and while it is far from perfect it still holds an important place in the evolution of UI design for video games.
Just Cause 3: A Technical Mess
Players with machines meeting the minimum requirements for running Just Cause 3 are encountering game breaking graphical and performance bugs which render the PC version of the game unplayable.
Tomb Raider vs Tomb Raider vs Tomb Raider
Lara Croft and her games have been reimagined more than once, each point marking a decade of game design.
While Legend was the first real reboot, building a new engine, gameplay style and backstory from the ground up, I feel like Anniversary is the best one to point out how much Tomb Raider had changed. It was a honest to god remake and not simply a HD texture pack, and took subtle but definite steps to turn Lara Croft into a more fleshed out, more human character. Tomb Raider 2013's reboot overshadows the previous one, but the reasons for that might not be in it's favour.
Check out the PlayStation Plus free games for December here
Sony is ending 2015 with a bang by offering six free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers this December.
Vidya Controversy – Satan’s in the pixels!
Video games and the people who play them are never far from controversy. Moral panics ranging from school shootings, to stunted development, to misogyny, murder, crime and even Satan's evil influence on the souls of the young have dogged our hobby.
#MindYourself My Happy Place in Video Games
Kettle on. Shoes off. Jump onto the sofa and grab a controller. Instantly I am transported to another world. For their 'Mind Yourself' campaign, Independent.ie asked me to discuss my happy place. Video games are my happy place. They have the ability to take you to places you've never been, discover civilizations unknown, to be a hero, all from your own home.