[Image: In lieu of any games I played, here's actor Dick Miller, who I'm pretty sure appeared in every single movie that I've ever watched, and who passed this week at 90 years of age. RIP buddy.]The first month of 2019 is done. Can you bel...

Looks like we already at the end of the first week of 2019, if not the first full week, but why be picky about these things? Fact is, the new year is underway and I'm already quite ill, which better not be a portent for things to come over ...

It's that awkward week between Christmas and the start of a brand new year. Some of us will still be off work, others will never have been off work. Some companies are still closed, while some outlets are running weekend hours. Human sacrif...

Players logging into Ubisoft's tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege over the Holiday period will bag themselves a special "Holiday Pack" (Siege's variant on in-game loot boxes) containing a free Operator that is yet to join your roster of hea...

Sony's PlayStation Classic retro console, which released at the start of this month, has dropped its price-tag from around $100 USD to around $60 USD at certain retail outlets.Both GameStop and Walmart are among the retailers knocking almos...

It's Christmas, the one day of the year the world comes together to celebrate the time Bruce Willis dropped Alan Rickman off Nakatomi Plaza. There are probably other things we celebrate too, but I'm far too drunk on the expired Four Loko I'...

[It may be Christmas Day, but that doesn't mean it's too late to request a belated holiday card! Get yer orders in. Digital cards should be incoming sometime today!] It's that time of year again! No, not the time of year where Uncle Terry g...

The weather outside isn't particularly frightful, to be honest. It's just pretty grey, which is essentially British weather 90% of the year. Regardless it's the big day. The finale of what is, for many, weeks of planning, spending and total...

For many of you, the week is over, and the holidays have begun. Some of you will be off work now until after the 25th. For others it will be business as usual. Some may be sitting at home, basking in self, while others will be making long t...

The holiday season is upon us, friends. That means me drinking my weight in crappy eggnog-flavored coffee. It means rushing around to buy dumb junk for my kids that they will be less interested in than the box it came in. And of course, mos...

You may recall, earlier this year, that Blizzard commissioned a stop-motion animated short to celebrate the second anniversary of their popular online shooter, Overwatch. As the holidays approach, it appears the same team have been hired fo...

Lyle's white whale has arrived. His cold, bitter thirst for conflict has been building since childhood to this very moment, but while we plan the first strike, here's what's been happening in video games: Devil May Cry 5 is getting...mult...

I can't believe it took this long, but the Angry Video Game Nerd managed to snag Macaulay Culkin as a guest in the 164th episode of the show, which doubles as a Christmas special. As you might expect the duo runs through every Home Alone&nb...

If you were thinking of picking up either Battlefield V or Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 during Black Friday and Cyber Monday but slept through the whole ordeal because sleep is so much better - you're in luck. Both flagship titles are now at t...

The Winter Wonderland 2018 skins for Overwatch are mostly themed around winter sports. They're okay if you're into grounded designs, but I prefer the more out-there stuff. I wasn't really feeling them. There's one big exception, though, and...

Blizzard has begun sharing the latest batch of Overwatch character skins ahead of next week's Winter Wonderland event. I was hoping we'd see creative festive designs. So far, the results are mixed. The first skin, Sugar Plum Fairy Mercy, is...

Overwatch will soon begin spreading holiday joy. Blizzard is running the in-game Winter Wonderland event from December 11, 2018 to January 2, 2019 with a decked-out makeover for the Blizzard World map along with more seasonal character skin...

The holiday season is upon us. Celebrate by entering this contest for your chance to win a Blu-ray copy of The Original Christmas Specials Collection: Deluxe Edition. For anyone who says the Marvel movies boast the greatest all-time feat in...

In one of today's weirdest bits of news, SNK has revealed the existence of a limited edition "Christmas" model of their nostalgia console, the Neo Geo Mini, which launched worldwide mere weeks ago.This yuletide console is decorated in festi...

Because we live in a world where no holidays exist between Halloween and Christmas according to candy cane filled psychopaths, we're already getting into the Christmas spirit! With The Grinch releasing this Friday, why not dump another...

At the end of his yet-to-be-aired Comedy Central Roast, famed action star and older Joseph Gordon-Levitt Bruce Willis made a declaration that sent shockwaves around the world. "Die Hard is not a Christmas movie!" shouted the unfriendly Shya...

If you love having novelty ornaments hanging on your Christmas tree, then Hallmark has a real treat for you! Coming this holiday season, the world's premiere paper store will be selling three brand new ornaments modeled after some of gaming...

Retail chain GameStop have announced that the company had a very successful December, with sales up 10.6% on the previous year, resulting in a year-on-year increase of $2.77 billion.Speaking to gameindustry.biz, GameStop interim CEO Dan DeM...

Sony have released figures for their PlayStation sales over 2017's Holiday period, and it looks like it was a very Merry Christmas for the industry giants.The PlayStation 4 manufacturer managed to sell through 5.9 million of the little blac...

Activision's extended run in the number one spot of the UK Charts came to an end this week, as Electronic Arts' FIFA 18 successfully regained the top spot, knocking off Call of Duty: WWII, which held the coveted position since early Novembe...