Posts By Mat Growcott

While many of us are gearing up for the beginning of the next generation of consoles, one family is going backwards. The McMillans from Canada are trading in all of their modern devices - from tablets to TVs - and instead of going back to something a little more retro. If it wasn't around in 1986, they don't use it. This means goodbye Candy Crush, hello NES.

EA and DICE have revealed their recommended specs for Battlefield 4. If you want the game to looks its best on PC, you’re may just need to upgrade… Minimum system requirements for Battlefield 4: OS: Windows Vista SP2 32-bitProcessor (AMD): Athlon X2 2.8 GHzProcessor (Intel): Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHzMemory: 4 GBHard Drive: 30 GBGraphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon 3870Graphics card (NVIDIA): Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTGraphics memory: 512 MB Recommended system ...

The SEGA Dreamcast was released on this day 14 years ago in North America. Way ahead of its time, the Dreamcast was the first console to have first party online support and gave us a glimpse of what the future of gaming would be like with titles like Sonic Adventure pushing graphics and speed ahead of anything else on the market.

GamrRank – a social network for gamers that ranked you based upon how much you talked about games across every other social network – will be closing over the next few days. An email announcing the closure was sent out this morning. We started GamrRank because we felt there was a desire from the gaming community to have a console, developer and publisher-independent service that combined what you play with what you talk about. We wanted a service ...

A hacker has done what years of anti-piracy could not and has knocked out one of the most popular emulation websites on the internet. Coolrom has been knocked out by someone calling themselves Chloroform. Chloroform got rid of everything on the Coolroms page, instead playing a short piece of music and linking you to the Sinisterly forums. Sinisterly is a forum for people that enjoy coding, hardware, anime and more. Coolrom, which is ranked within the top ...

The Vita TV is a pretty exciting prospect, allowing those with no interest in a portable handheld to play a great collection of titles at a low price from the comfort of their TV. There's one thing that we don't know, however, and that's exactly how Vita TV is going to make up for not having a rear and front touch pad.

Sony have today announced Vita TV, a device that does everything the Vita does, without the portability. By plugging the device into your TV, you can play the latest Vita titles like you would any other game. Available for $99 and compatible with every feature of the Vita, Vita TV is a cheaper option for those that don't necessarily want the Vita device, but want to play the games available for the system.

Albert Penello recently posted to Neogaf explaining a number of things about the Xbox One. One of the biggest comments to come out of the post was that there was no way Microsoft were going to give up a 30% hardware advantage to Sony, as some figures (and some rather over-excited consumers) might suggest. People DO understand that Microsoft has some of the smartest graphics programmers IN THE WORLD. We CREATED DirectX, the standard API’s that everyone programs ...

The excitement is mounting. It's now less than two weeks (11 days, in fact) until Grand Theft Auto V is released on the world. With new details revealed every day and nothing but positive reaction web-wide, you might be forgiven for thinking this could be one of the biggest games of all time. Any way you look at it, it's kind of a big deal, right?

The PC version of Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, SEGA's re-release of the classic Disney-inspired Genesis/Megadrive platformer, is locked at 30FPS. This puts it on par with the console version, but fans who were holding out for smoother animations are very disappointed.