Geese Untitled Goose Game actually lives up to the viral hypeWired UK - Victoria Turk The first thing you have to do in Untitled Goose Game is honk. In fact, honking is one of the few things you can do. You are, after all, a …
Apple Arcade The best Apple Arcade games you should download firstWired UK - Laurie Clarke At Apple’s anticlimactic keynote event in September 2019, the launch of the company's new games subscription service Apple Arcade was one of the few …
Nostalgia Link's Awakening is a nostalgic treasure (and a great Zelda game)Wired UK - Will Bedingfield More than any other cultural medium, the video game industry thrives on nostalgia. Remakes are common – they sell phenomenally well and comprise a …
SEGA Sega's Mega Drive Mini is a treasure trove of gaming nostalgiaWired UK - Matt Kamen Minor audio sync issues; lacklustre CRT filter fails to recreate original appearance; some games ideally need six-button controller Nintendo didn't …
FIFA 20 FIFA 20 is more realistic than ever. And that's the worst thing about itWired UK - Amit Katwala Video games can reach a point where they become too realistic. The Football Manager series crossed that boundary years ago, around the time you had to …
Borderlands 3 Borderlands 3's dynamic levelling fixes online gaming's biggest flawWired UK - Matt Kamen Nod along if this sounds familiar: you start playing a game online with friends but regular sessions become decidedly irregular, then you miss a raid …
Lootboxes A UK ban on loot boxes could kill FIFA Ultimate Team as we know itWired UK - Amit Katwala In a few weeks, FIFA 20, the next iteration of EA’s wildly popular football simulation franchise, will hit consoles with a raft of new game modes. But …
The web's creepiest fictional wiki is now a mind-bending video gameWired UK - Aron Garst As you make your way down a grey corridor you come across a man sitting behind a glass panel staring at a fridge, unable to break eye contact with …
Playing The Witcher III on Nintendo's Switch is incredibleWired UK - Matt Kamen A four-year old game being ported to Nintendo Switch wouldn't usually ruffle many feathers – the success of the hybrid console has had developers and …
The best games of 2019 so far, rankedWired UK - Will Bedingfield Any casual observer, skimming through lists of blockbuster releases, might conclude that 2019 hasn’t been a great year for games. At a certain level, …
The best gaming monitors you can buy right nowWired UK - WIRED Think of the hours you've put in looking at graphics card benchmarks and component specs when you’re putting together a gaming PC. Many people don’t …
The unbelievable scale of Fortnite's $30 million World CupWired UK - Chris Stokel-Walker Earlier this month the world’s best national football teams competed in the Women’s World Cup in France for a total prize pool of $30m (£24m). The …
Android gaming phones miss the point of the Switch's successWired UK - Andrew Williams Asus just announced its 2019 gaming phone, the RoG Phone II, with the aggressive style of Asus' RoG gaming laptops and, as of July 23, 2019, the most …
The Nintendo Switch Lite totally reinvents the SwitchWired UK - Will Bedingfield The Nintendo Switch has a new rival: the Switch Lite. The console isn't totally unexpected, as it was predicted back in March, but it represents …
Why I'm obsessed with creating stupidly hard rules to video gamesWired UK - Will Bedingfield I add new rules to video games to make them harder. Since I am merely a slightly above average player – I hereby award myself a 6/10 for the purposes …
The inspired indie games everyone should play at least onceWired UK - Will Bedingfield What is it? An action-adventure game, set in a magical-looking solar system, with an emphasis on exploration. You play as a member of a four-eyed …
Phil Spencer on Microsoft's vision for the future of Xbox and gamingWired UK - Matt Kamen Holistic probably isn't the first word that comes to mind when you consider the gaming industry. It's a world notorious for going after the hot new …
A series of dumb security flaws left millions of EA Origin users exposedWired UK - Nicole Kobie Gaming is all about user data – and there's plenty of it. Player accounts on EA's Origin gaming platform could have been snooped on without hackers …
Pokémon Go Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is just Pokémon Go with magicWired UK - Mike Dent Niantic, the creators of blockbuster wander-em-up Pokémon Go, has finally released its much-anticipated contribution to the Harry Potter universe, Harry …
Ninja Overwatch competitor Bleeding Edge could change everythingWired UK - Matt Kamen At a glance, Bleeding Edge is not the game you'd expect Cambridge-based developer Ninja Theory to release in the wake of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, …
Cyberpunk Keanu Reeves isn't even the best thing about Cyberpunk 2077Wired UK - Matt Kamen It's hard to believe in this age of constant hype cycles and endless marketing buzz, but it’s genuinely rare now for a game to generate quite as much …
Gaming Google Stadia has kicked off a new age of gaming data harvestingWired UK - Tom Upchurch The future looks fun for gamers. With Google's streaming service Stadia set for release in November and Microsoft and Sony PlayStation announcing a …
Final Fantasy VII Remake Final Fantasy VII Remake lives up to its legendary predecessorWired UK - Matt Kamen Final Fantasy VII is one of few games to achieve truly legendary status. The 1997 original was revolutionary, introducing Japanese role-playing games …
The best games (and trailers) from E3 2019Wired UK - Will Bedingfield As the dust settles on this year's E3, it's time to take a step back and analyse what really happened. Though there were a lot of cinematic trailers …
Does Halo 5 really make sense on a phone? We try Microsoft's xCloudWired UK - Matt Kamen Microsoft has made no secret of the fact that it has been developing game streaming options, and at this year's E3 Xbox conference, it gave players …
Ubisoft Ubisoft's E3 event was a strange affair, over-relying on Tom ClancyWired UK - Matt Kamen Compared to previous years, 2019's Ubisoft E3 conference felt like a subdued affair. Perhaps it was simply the shift away from opening with an …
Legion (TV Series) Watch Dogs Legion imagines London's collapse into a post-Brexit fascist hellWired UK - Matt Kamen For years now, developer and publisher Ubisoft has trodden a line between their games making a political or social statement and being "just a game". …
Microsoft's E3 2019 conference shows Xbox has a dominant futureWired UK - Matt Kamen Gamers often talk about E3 in terms of which publisher "won" the event, based on their conference showcases and which one wows audiences the most. …
Google Google is doing an awful job selling Stadia to gamersWired UK - Matt Kamen Getting its announcements in just before the madness of E3 kicks off, Google has finally revealed more information on its upcoming streaming …
