You thought Batman meeting the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was an unlikely alliance? Well buddy hold onto your butts, because this generation’s most unexpected team-up has been announced: Sony and Microsoft are joining forces to create a “strategic partnership” that will see the duo develop new cloud-based tech for their Xbox and PlayStation divisions.

We know that there’s a new PlayStation coming. Beside it being absolutely bleeding obvious, Sony recently revealed the first confirmed details about the next generation PlayStation through a Wired exclusive. We now know a fair bit about the console but not its release date.

The PlayStation 5 sounds sound very, very expensive. While that sort of pricing information was left put of Wired’s article, it was part of the interview, and according to Cerny the PS5 will be “appealing to gamers in light of its advanced feature set.”

With the likes of Google Stadia and other advances in streaming technology making video games more accessible than ever, who needs a dedicated piece of hardware to feed game discs into?

Ubisoft's stabby franchise is taking a break in 2019, and after a foray into the Egyptian and Greek past that delved deeper into the origins of the series, where Assassin’s Creed goes next is up for debate. According to one unverified leaker, the next game in the franchise will be Assassin’s Creed Legion, which swaps the Grecian shores of Odyssey for some Italian fun in the sun.

For so many years, Sony has been leading that charge with PlayStation brand. We’re looking at the twilight of their fourth console, a machine that has helped not only make gaming more mainstream, but also more legitimate in the eyes of a public that once considered these devices to be nothing more than murder simulator boxes. So what does the future hold in store for PlayStation and gaming in general?

Is the Watch Dogs franchise dead? Maybe, or maybe it’s merely resting as it bides its time and prepares for a new life on new consoles. That’s the rumour floating around currently as Skullzi TV dug up a trademark listing from Ubisoft for Watch Dogs 3 from the tail end of 2018.

It’s the calm before the storm. A strange lull in activity, that kicks off just before Microsoft and Sony take to the stage to announce that something new is on the way. While the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are far from dead (BRING OUT YER DEAD), their days are most definitely numbered. The time for a new console generation …