Prepare for the most immersive experience of buying a virtual reality headset ever created. Oculus announced that it will open pre-orders for its very first consumer-ready Rift virtual reality headset at 8 am PST / 6 pm GMT on Wednesday. The company says it will share (opens in new tab) …

Jump in The Xbox One has made a terrific turnaround since its initial unveiling in 2013. Halo, Tomb Raider, Rare Replay, backwards compatibility, and tons of value-packed bundles make owning an Xbox One more attractive than ever. The Xbox One is a complex system, filled with way more features and …

Yesterday we finally saw the last bit of Batman Arkham Knight DLC (opens in new tab)arrive, ending the sorry drawn out smattering of skins, racetracks, and 20 minute challenge rooms dressed up as story, that ran as Bat’s season pass. It’s not been great but at least there’s something shiny …

Rare is a studio with a ton of classic games in its history – just look at Rare Replay (opens in new tab) for Xbox One. Of those games, few are as beloved as N64 3D platformer Banjo-Kazooie. And why wouldn’t people love it? It’s a cute cartoon bear and …

In next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ben Affleck will become the sixth actor to play The Dark Knight (in a live action film), and everything we’ve seen from his portrayal so far has us thinking he’ll be fantastic in the role. It already looks markedly different from …

After six months of radio silence on the Tales Of series, things are looking bleak in the franchise’s newest game, Tales of Berseria. In, not for, I promise. Officially announced last June at the Tales Of Festival in Tokyo with a few images of stone-faced pirate protagonist Velvet (who looks …

Welcome to the final weekly news wrap up of 2015! We’ll have special editions appearing with your games of the year on Christmas Day and then what you’re most excited about in 2016 the week after, but this is the last time we get to give you the headlines before …

Warning: Story spoilers below Croteam is a small, independent studio best known for a series of games called Serious Sam; first-person shooters that harken back to a simpler era of games, where all you needed were big guns, bigger explosions, and headless goons that charge screaming at you full bore …

Devil’s Third shouldn’t exist. Six years in development, bounced between three publishers, and shifting between four different engines in the process, the first game from notorious developer Tomonobu Itagaki since Ninja Gaiden 2 finally came to Nintendo Wii U this past week. Was it worth the wait? That’s a complicated …

Playing protagonist musical chairs It’s a real feat for a game to actually surprise you. We’ve entered an age where every character reveal, every playable mode, multiplayer feature, or gameplay quirk is carefully calculated and announced at the most opportune moment to build hype to an absolute fever pitch. By …