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Valve’s portable powerhouse might be the best gaming PC for on-the-go players, but it faced stuff handheld competition at last night’s Golden Joystick Awards. It also wasn’t the only portable gaming device to receive a nomination, as both the Analogue Pocket and Playdate earned a spot on the shortlist. Speaking of which, here’s the full … Read more
A solution to wonky virtual joypads and fingerprint-ridden mobile screens, Bluetooth controllers have been making things easy for trigger-happy gamers on the go who prefer physical buttons over on-screen ones. The 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller is no different – it certainly quenches that thirst for more tactile buttons when it comes to mobile gaming. But … Read more
If you’re at all committed to personal audio – both gaming and other media – then you’ll likely be accustomed to juggling between multiple sets of headphones depending on the task at hand. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just own one set of headphones to meet all your gaming, music, and media demands? … Read more
Mobile gaming has come a long way since the days of playing Snake on a Nokia. There are some excellent options out there now, including ports of fantastic console and PC titles. Even so, there are plenty of games that haven’t made their way over from PC. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy them … Read more
Sleek, “armoured for victory”, and with more powerful RAM than my actual gaming laptop, the REDMAGIC 7S Pro Supernova Lords Mobile Edition is a mobile gamer’s dream. It’s got a bunch of fancy features that are aimed solely at on-the-go players, but does it live up to the hype, or is it all bark and … Read more
We often wonder if the minds behind the original DOOM knew what the game they were creating would lead to. It’s one of the most iconic games ever, but 30 years later we’re swapping out demons for a scarier threat… bad fashion sense. Fashion Police Squad takes the classic “boomer shooter” formula and splices it … Read more
Game Swing’s OddBallers, a raucous top-down dodgeball party game, has been doing the rounds for quite some time now, having languished in various unreleased forms since it was first announced as “coming soon” a fair old while ago. Now it’s suddenly dropped onto Nintendo Switch and, far from the mess we had thought it might … Read more
World War Z: Aftermath, the manic zombie shooter, has finally made its way to PS5 alongside its long-awaited XL version of Horde Mode. This movie tie-in has become a real sleeper-hit after it launched to middling reviews back in 2019. But several updates later, and we have a solid third-person co-op experience that has outlived … Read more
It’s a fresh crisis of faith from a director who used to love themLike Taylor Swift, Shakespeare had a lot to say about reputation. In Othello, when the noble Cassio mourns the tarnishing of his reputation, which he identifies as “the immortal part of myself,” the duplicitous Iago talks him out of being so precious, … Read more
Republished on Wednesday, 1st February, 2023: We’re bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of February 2023’s PS Plus line up. The original text follows. After the complete and utter disaster that was Mafia II: Definitive Edition, the only way was up for its prequel. Mafia: Definitive Edition is a remake of … Read more