Who would have thought that Forza Motorsport’s “missing” campaign spin-off, Forza Horizon would ellipse it’s pure racing brethren and become THE racing game on the Xbox One.Whilst Turn 10’s Forza Motorsport games may give us the physics and the cars, they can be a rather dour affair. Still one of the best racing franchises out … Continue Reading ››
Another year and another generation of Intel CPUs. For this 8th generation, codenamed Coffee Lake, Intel have opted to keep the LGA1151 socket of its predecessors. But unlike the 7th gen Kaby Lake you’ll not going to be able to slot it straight into your old Z270 motherboard.I’m going to be looking at an Intel … Continue Reading ››
Is upgrading to Intel’s 8th generation of CPUs a worthwhile investment? I take a look at the Intel Core i7-8700K.It’s been a year since I road-tested Intel’s 7th generation Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake CPU. The chip has been running the whole time with its four cores overclocked to 4.8GHz (from 4.5GHz), without issueSo, what about … Continue Reading ››
Micron’s Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4-3000 is designed to offer top quality memory for gaming at a reasonable cost. I put a set of 32GB modules through its paces.I’ll be honest with you, I can’t help but mess about with PC settings. Most of what I know about PCs is down to be pushing PCs until … Continue Reading ››
Two’s company in this delightful sequel to Coldwood Interactive’s acclaimed platformer.It’s been out for a little while, but you, like I, may have not yet made the time to play this gem of a game.Coldwood Interactive’s first game, 2016’s Unravel, also published by EA Games under their EA Originals banner, had players controlling Yarny, a … Continue Reading ››
Lara Croft is back in in the third chapter of the re-imagining of the classic series. For this game, things are apparently taking a dark turn for the novice tomb raider.The story continues to follow Lara’s quest to disrupt the intentions of Trinity, the shadowy organisation responsible for her father’s death. This time out Lara … Continue Reading ››
The Singularity, the hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence becomes capable of recursive self-improvement, could radically change human civilisation almost overnight.According to the boffins at the NVidia, we may owe the next big leap in human technological advancement to gamers’ desire for better PC graphics.Last week, graphics cards power-house Nvidia hosted their AI event … Continue Reading ››
Devolver Digital’s seminal retro-shooter, Broforce, brings its awesomeness to the Nintendo Switch.I’m not, generally speaking, a fan of “90s-style retro shooters”. As a forty-something gamer, the feeling of nostalgia when playing a pixelated mess of a game dissipates very quickly. I was there the first time around, and even before- when computer graphics were no … Continue Reading ››
