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Eager to get fans thirsting for Game of Thrones season 8 (opens in new tab), HBO have released special Twitter emojis (opens in new tab) for every single major (and some minor-ish) characters so you can pledge your allegiance to your favourite character, and pray to the Nine that they …

The Pokemon Company has announced a brand new pair of core Pokemon games:  Pokemon Sword and Shield (opens in new tab). The games are set in a brand new location called the Galar Region, which looks to be based on London, or at least the United Kingdom. Instead of the …

The Division (opens in new tab)’s campaign was filled with big armored dudes with flamethrowers and ridiculous amounts of health. Just, like, obscene amounts of health. Enough health to feed an army. Happily, at a recent event The Division 2 (opens in new tab) creative director Julian Gerighty told me …

We’ve had MCU movies span years and even decades – as I’m sure Peggy Carter would tell you *sob* – but nothing like what Kevin Feige is teasing for The Eternals, Marvel’s next big thing coming our way in Phase 4. Not only is the head of Marvel Studios talking …

There’s a level of dramatic irony to the fact that Watch Dogs – a series all about security, hacking, and the information era – isn’t very good at keeping its own secrets. We’ve been hearing rumours for some time now that Watch Dogs 3 is going to be set in …

Microsoft has revealed a brand new Kinect camera, but you can stop dusting off your copy of Kinect Star Wars. This new, smaller version has been designed for serious business, not Rancor Rampage. Of course there’s always a chance that some of the technology could end up being compatible with …

Earlier this month, a patent filed by Sony (opens in new tab) seemed to suggest that the company was working on a backwards compatibility program for PS5 (opens in new tab), the inevitable next-gen follow up to its hugely successful console, the PS4. While it didn’t outright confirm anything, a …

Update: After at least five hours of downtime, the Apex Legends server outage on PC finally seems to be resolving. I was able to succesfully load into the main menu (after being trapped at the initial load screen) and Respawn Entertainment says that should be the case for more and …

Alien: Isolation (opens in new tab) was just the beginning for Amanda Ripley. Following the surprise announcement of the Alien: Blackout (opens in new tab) mobile game in January, it looks like Amanda’s continuing story will also be told via another medium: an animated series. According to an Observer (opens …

UPDATE: Jay J. Falconer, author of the Redfall series, has got in touch with us with the below information: @zoe_dels Your Redfall Article. My lawyers made attempts to contact gaming company to work out a simple licensing deal for them to use my Redfall name. They ignored me every time. …