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...

Looks like a lot of people unwrapped shiny new Switch consoles this Christmas, as the following days saw adventure title Zelda: Breath of the Wild leap ten places to re-enter the UK's Top Ten. Splatoon 2 also made Top Forty re-entry, now si...

It's January 1st, that means we get to do all of this over again, except hopefully better. However 2017 went down for you, the new year brings new potential and fresh opportunity, and I hope all you guys 'n' gals grab hold of that and run t...

When giving gifts at Christmas, it is the thought that counts. Especially in the time of trophies and achievements, unwrapping a mediocre game from a well-meaning great-aunt who asked the nice shop assistant for recommendations is not a big...

As was the case with last year's festive week, players logging into Overwatch between December 25 and January 1 will receive five free loot boxes, in conjunction with the Winter Wonderland event.All you need do is boot up the arena-shooter,...

In what's been a forgone conclusion for weeks, Activision's military-shooter Call of Duty: WWII fought back a bevy of contenders to lay claim to the Christmas #1 slot in the UK charts.The top three has been etched in stone for some time, wi...

If you're spending this Boxing Day morning picking up after friends, family, or perhaps yourselves, then take heart in the fact that gaming's greatest tyrants are suffering alongside you.In a new skit released by Sega to celebrate the festi...

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. That song they've been playing in shops says so.Christmas Day is underway. Maybe you're surrounded by annoying loving family members and friends. Perhaps you're stuffing your face with more food tha...

From the "Let's look too deeply into this" file, the Bravely Default twitter account released a very cute image yesterday wishing all of their fans a "Happy Merry Christmas".But it also set tongues wagging, as the accompanying image feature...

If you've been playing the Winter Wonderland event in arena-shooter Overwatch, you may have tried out the Yeti Hunt mode, where a team of five Mei's must track down and defeat a rage-infused Winston, before he grabs five slabs of meat and g...

There is a house down the street from me that looks like the seasonal section at K-Mart ejaculated over its front yard. There is Santa, Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, Frosty, some gingerbread men, birds, presents, a Shrek for some goddamn reason; all...

Ubisoft was already giving out some games for the holidays, but now that offer has been extended a bit. Instead of ending on the 18th like previously mentioned, you can now nab both World in Conflict and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag alon...

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... except for a whole bunch of tropey anime characters, tearing the house down with sweet-ass two-steps.While most folks will be snuggling in with love...

Last week saw the Xbox One release of open-world shooter, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, parachute straight into the number four position of the UK Charts, breaking a Top Five ranking that has been fairly concrete for a few weeks.It wasn't ...

You know what I got for Christmas last year? Try nothing. You know what I'm getting for Christmas this year? You got it. Yet here they are, the good folk of the Splatoon community, bitchin' about sweaters and socks. I'd kill for sweaters an...

Blizzard has begun its Winter Wonderland 2017 event for Overwatch and that means more skins (oh my goodness, Bastion has an owl! And Ana is an owl!) as well as Mei's Snowball Offensive from last year and a new mode, Yeti Hunt. The latter pi...

Tomorrow sees the start of Overwatch's festive shenanigans, with the Winter Wonderland event bringing new and old yuletide skins and goodies to the popular shooter. To further celebrate the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Blizzard are also...

Well hello all you fine fellows. Welcome to another edition of Comments of the Week. By now all the Thanksgiving leftovers should be gone and cleaned out and all the spoils from Black Friday/Cyber Monday have been enjoyed. Now the wait for ...

The holiday spirit returns to Overwatch on Tuesday, December 12 and you know what that means: skins! According to director Jeff Kaplan, the team is readying "a lot of legendary skins," including outfits for Junkrat and Roadhog and a fresh l...

Quite shamefully, I only saw Die Hard for the first time two years ago, in December and in a packed movie theatre. It was only then that I could fully appreciate the classic argument that rages about the film. No, not whether Hans Gruber is...

One of my favorite things about the Animal Crossing series is how it handles the different seasons. I haven't seen real snow in years so it's always nice to have a game I can pop in during the winter if I ever want to build a snowman o...

A new range of costumes are coming next week for roster members of scrapper Street Fighter V. These include some more retro outfits and a new batch of Holiday gear. 'Tis the season for giving (your money to Capcom).Ice-princess Kolin is loo...