Author: Martin Robinson

[ad_1] F1 has entered its new era in fairly convincing fashion, with the 2022 season delivering some great action and a revised order – and now, as the circus rocks up at Imola for the start of the European season EA Sports has lifted the lid on this year’s model of the official game.…

[ad_1] It has, you might have noticed, been a pretty good year so far for games. Elden Ring’s arguably the greatest game that’s released since Breath of the Wild, Pokémon got the modern makeover we’ve been pining after for years, Gran Turismo is – considerable launch issues aside – close to firing on…

[ad_1] The first big fix for Gran Turismo 7’s launch issues – chiefly its grim grind made all the more unpalatable by the presence of microtransactions – is now live, boosting payouts for campaign and online events and making some other welcome changes along the way. New events have been introduced, with big races at…

[ad_1] One of the best pieces of advice I ever received was shared over the scream of a high-revving V10 engine. The summer before I headed into my GCSEs, my work experience took me to the British GP in 1996 where I was lucky enough to shadow the brilliant motorsport journalist David Tremayne who at…

[ad_1] The good news, for those who like their games industry a little less homogenous, is that Sony continues to tread its own line with the much-anticipated makeover of its PlayStation subscription service. The new PlayStation Plus might look broadly similar to Game Pass, and at its top tier it costs broadly the same too,…

[ad_1] Since it came out at the beginning of March, Gran Turismo 7 hasn’t had the smoothest of rides – thanks, in no small part, to its implementation of some pretty grim microtransactions tied in with a protracted grind for in-game credits as well as server outages which rendered the game’s single player campaign unplayable.…

[ad_1] When Masahiro Sakurai first drew a couple of stumpy arms, big feet and blushing cheeks on a little pink blob, he was answering a call within Nintendo to make a game for everyone; a game, like the adorable Kirby himself, with no hard edges, where those who found Mario a mite too masochistic might…

[ad_1] Earlier this week, a brace of games from developer Treasure made their way to the Nintendo Switch Online’s service, which is all the excuse we needed to celebrate the beloved Japanese studio. They’ve been remarkably quiet in recent years, with nothing but re-releases since 2014, but that shouldn’t stop us enjoying its remarkable past,…

[ad_1] While Polyphony suggests fixes are coming.  After more than 24 hours offline – rendering a game whose single-player mode needs an internet connection almost entirely unplayable – Gran Turismo 7’s big patch is finally live and, as feared, it nerfs the credit payout of several events that had become favourite grinding spots for players.…

[ad_1] It’s hard to believe that Mario Kart 8 is coming up to eight years old. Yet it’s also hard to imagine a time before it; like only a small handful of titles before it, Mario Kart 8 is a constant that’s become woven into my life, one of those rare forever games that’s always…