Fans of retro gaming are going to need to be a little bit more patient because one of the hottest new devices to play the grimiest of video game cartridges you have gathering dust in the corner of your cupboard, has been slightly delayed. The Analogue Pocket, which was originally due to ship in May, will now only be arriving in October.

Set S-foils to HYPE position, because we’ve just exited the September system, Green Day’s awake and it’s time to do an attack run on October! The fourth quarter of gaming is traditionally the busiest time of the year, and that first salvo that’s fired at your bank account comes from the spookiest of months. There’s a lot of great stuff …

One can only hope that Valve trims the fat off of the last event because, quite frankly, 900 playable demos is just an unnecessary sensory overload.

The American convention calendar may be all but spent, but a hop across the pond and you’d find that the Brits are still ready and raring to go when it comes to celebrating pop culture. Held twice a year, London’s Movie Comic Media expo may have started life as a single day event in 2001 but right now it’s an entire weekend of fun that runs the course of three days.

Xbox Game Pass! By now you’re all aware of how it works, and while you’d think that Microsoft was paying us a handsome sum to talk about the all you can play buffet that it offers, we’re actually just big fans of the service who’ll talk about it even though we couldn’t organise a Canary Islands bank account in which …

The end of this month plans to be a showcase for the gold standard of high velocity foam delivery toys, as the Nerf Fest will kick off on October 26 and 27 at the GOG Lifestyle Park in Johannesburg. The venue is larger, the prizes are bigger and the honour of being crowned the Nerf Fest 2019 champions is also on the line. Here’s a quick rundown of what to expect at the event.

May the gods have mercy on your bank balance, because October's video game release schedule certainly won’t.

I like my video game news to be delivered in much the same way that I like my pizza to be dropped off by me: Brief, cut into easily digestible segments and incredibly disappointing when there’s not even the merest mention of a new Batman game which results in me spending the night in a shower crying my heart out. …