There are still those who are willing to get up at the crack of dusk and boot up their console to find him for you. People who’ll risk digital life and limb to let you know if Xur is selling a treasure or rubbish. I just so happen to be one of those people. Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight. In that case: Where is Xur?

There are still those who are willing to get up at the crack of dusk and boot up their console to find him for you. People who’ll risk digital life and limb to let you know if Xur is selling a treasure or rubbish. I just so happen to be one of those people. Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight. In that case: Where is Xur?

Even though nobody’s talking about it (positively that is), Google’s Stadia service is still a tantalising glimpse at the future of gaming, one that it’ll face some stiff competition in as the technology improves and other companies learn from the mistakes made by Google with their initial soft launch of the service. Microsoft has its Project xCloud in development, but it looks like a new challenger has arrived!

With Xmas around the corner, the Epic Games Store is feeling especially festive as they kick off their biggest reason yet to setup an account on that digital distribution front. Twelve days! Twelve games! Each one free! Not a bad deal at all I reckon. The first such game which’ll be up for grabs is one that serves as answer to a question that has dogged mankind for eons: Pacific Rim but what if it was chess?

World War Z at its best is when you and several other players need to draw a line in the sand and make a last stand. The game mechanics shine at this point, as hundreds of bodies move like a swarm across the screen and into the line of fire, making for some tense action. That moment of glory is pretty much getting a dedicated mode today, in the form of the imaginatively titled Horde Mode Z.

Rainbow Six Siege is as good as it’ll ever be thanks to Operation Shifting Tides introducing some much-requested new content, with the complete package being a superb showcase of action, strategy and half a decade’s worth of polish.

If any one motorcycle game came close to really capturing the feel of piloting a gigantic engine suspended between two wheels and moving with the power of pure piston combustion power, it was Krylotan’s underrated masterpiece. Set on the infamous island that happens to be sandwiched between Ireland and Britain, the game was fantastic stuff. It’s getting a sequel next year, one that aims to make the ride around the dangerous more enjoyable than ever before.

Cha-La Head Cha-La is Dragon Ball Z’s anthem, a joyous bit of opening music that never gets old. And of course it’s the main track of next year’s Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot.