Hot on the heels of Google’s announcement last week of Project Stream, Microsoft has now revealed its own plans for a video game streaming service. Dubbed Project xCloud, the service would allow players to jump into an Xbox One game on basically any device – be it a TV, PC, or even a smartphone.
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After rumors that Google was planning a streaming service for video games, the company has now confirmed it. Dubbed Project Stream, the system is due for its first public test this week, with lucky participants getting to have a crack at Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey right from a browser tab.
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We know Sony intends to include Final Fantasy 7, Jumping Flash, Ridge Racer Type 4, Tekken 3 and Wild Arms, with its PlayStation Classic, but that leaves 15 slots available to make the device a must-own for gaming nostalgists. Here are our picks.
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While we’ve been waiting all year for Nintendo to announce a Nintendo 64 Classic Mini, it looks like the company’s main rival of the time has answered the call instead. Sony has just announced a mini version of the original PlayStation, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the console.
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Toy start-up PlayShifu has unveiled Plugo, a gaming platform that hooks up to a tablet and uses a range of tactile toys to play games that will “trick” the kids into studying math or vocabulary.
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If you haven’t already jumped in for a games console, now is the perfect time. To help you decide which one is for you, New Atlas is comparing the specs and features of Microsoft’s Xbox One, Sony’s PlayStation 4, and Nintendo’s Switch.
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Nintendo is set to continue its experiment of combining cardboard crafts with video games. The company has unveiled the Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit, which adds a car, a plane and a submarine to its lineup of cardboard creations.
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In 2018 we’ve led the android rebellion in Detroit: Become Human, pillaged and plundered the Sea of Thieves, and gotten a Norse crash course in fatherhood through God of War. But the best could be yet to come, with some of the most highly-anticipated titles of the last few years.
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The history of portable games machines is festooned with joy. But for every success there are many others which do not evoke the same happy remembrances – or indeed any remembrances at all. And with good reason: they were spectacularly bad and/or unsuccessful. Here are 10 such prodigious flops.
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E3 delivered relatively little in the way of genuine surprises – the bulk of what was shown was much as we expected. But with plenty of new footage on display there's still plenty to look forward to in the next year or two.
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