Gaming

Fancy a few extra games to play over the holiday season? Start logging into the Epic Games Store. The deep-pocketed Fortnite developer is celebrating the festive season with 12 free games between December 19th and January 1st, 2020. A new offering will pop up each day — the first was the excellent turn-based strategy title Into the Breach, by FTL: Faster Than Light developer Subset Games…

Fortnite is still one of the most popular games in the world, but it has definitely lost some of the unprecedented momentum that it had throughout 2018. This led to League of Legends reclaiming Twitch’s most watched game, according to data-tracking service Arsenal.gg. Fortnite finished at No. 2 with its hours watched dropping 28% year-over-year. Here’s the full chart from Arsenal and…

As 2019 winds down, it’s a time of reflection on the year that was, which includes how we used products and services. Spotify, for instance, has long offered a way to see your most-played songs of the year. Now, Nintendo’s getting in on the action with its own year-in-review tool for Switch. It starts by going all the way back to the first day you used the hybrid console, even if it…

For years it was the stuff of legend — a games console that incorporated both a CD drive and SNES cartridge slot made with the official backing of PlayStation and Nintendo? But back in 2015 we saw the magical prototype for ourselves and even had a play with it. Now, after years of touring the world to show off the system to classic gaming fans, the owner of what is believed to be the only…