As your friends on Facebook always like to remind you, there are only a finite amount of sleeps until Santa crams his bulging sack down your gaping chimney… Continue reading
Author: Adam Lloyd
After 20 years, six generations and 721 individual designs, you can forgive Nintendo and Game Freak for having a few duff designs for Pokémon. With the upcoming release… Continue reading
As the weather outside grows colder and the daylight dwindles, we at Power Up Gaming are not lamenting the loss of summer. The winter months provide us with… Continue reading
‘Tis the season to be scary, and as such, us folks at Power Up Gaming have been thinking about the ways in which video games have petrified us over… Continue reading
So, it’s official. The long-awaited ‘NX’ has finally been revealed, and it’s called the Nintendo Switch: a hybrid device that links the worlds of home console and handheld gaming… Continue reading
Battlezone Interview: Rebellion Discuss Reviving an Arcade Classic for PlayStation VR
With PlayStation VR set to launch this Thursday (October 13), the Power Up Gaming team had the opportunity to get a final preview of Sony’s virtual reality contender at… Continue reading
First Impressions: Ride 2 Is The Gran Turismo Of The Two-Wheeled World
At this year’s Play Expo in Manchester, Power Up Gaming managed to sneak in a couple of ride-alongs with two different motorbike racers that will be going head-to-head… Continue reading
It’s the circle of life; and it moves through us all. From comebacks for Blur and Suede, to the return of Thatcherism, it seems that, if you live… Continue reading
Staying at the top for 22 years is a tough slog, but Tekken has emerged victorious atop a mound of bloodied and bruised 3D fighters. The Virtua Fighters,… Continue reading
Coming from the perspective of someone who hadn’t had a fully immersive experience in virtual reality, I remained unconvinced about the upcoming PlayStation VR. Neither the more technically… Continue reading
Hands-on Preview: Outlast II Feels Like Walking Through a Haunted House Designed for Hobbits
As the game that launched a thousand Let’s Play channels, and the title to which PewDiePie owes a significant amount of his revenue, the sequel to Outlast arrives… Continue reading
How many gamers does it take to change a light bulb? None; we play in absolute darkness for immersion, glare reduction and the hope for a slightly cheaper power bill…. Continue reading
Furi is the kind of game that will live and die by its initial impressions. By the time you have finished the tutorial boss in the opening moments,… Continue reading
Video games are on vacation at the moment. New releases may be few and far between, but Power Up Gaming have been assured that video games will continue… Continue reading
We all live in a Pokémon world; it turns out that we just never had the technology to see all the Pokémon around us before. With the advent of smartphone… Continue reading
Summertime, and the gaming is easy. Or at least, the release schedules are, as video games enter their long summer vacation period. Given the lack of new major… Continue reading
Britain is going to hell in a handbasket. Brexit has deeply divided our nation, our economy is tanking, the major political parties are in turmoil, and worst of… Continue reading
A great philosopher once said, if music be the food of love, I’m having seconds! This adequately reflects our stance on video games here at Power Up Gaming;… Continue reading
Edmund Blackadder once told the Queen:”Life without you is like a broken pencil – point-less.” Even though the team at Power Up Gaming respect Her Majesty immensely, we… Continue reading
Despite the lack of information surrounding the rumoured PlayStation Neo at Sony’s E3 press conference this year, it appears that the company is prepared to discuss high-level details…. Continue reading