While undeniably useful for navigating expansive game worlds, I despise mini-maps and their distracting nature. Are they holding the industry back? And are there ways we can improve on the standard mini-map design?

A new leak claiming to show the map for Grand Theft Auto 6 has appeared online. There are four images of the alleged map, showing that the game will take place in Vice City, as well as several islands off the coast.  According to Comicbook, the leaks began in early …

A team of modders has developed a map for vanilla Minecraft, which is an entirely new, 3D Pokémon game. Called Pokémon Cobalt and Amethyst, the game has a battle system, random encounters, an overarching story, items to find and most importantly, 136 new Pokémon to discover, evolve and battle with. …

It looks like fans of the Red Dead series may have a new game to look forward to as Red Dead Redemption 2's map has leaked onto the web. There has been some murmurs about a new Red Dead game in recent months but reports this week claim that the new …

Far Cry: Primal may have completely changed setting, with the spin-off title going back to prehistoric times. However, that doesn't mean that the world's layout has changed as a comparison image between Far Cry Primal and Far Cry 4's map shows that the layout is almost unchanged, with many things …

Rocket League's success is undeniable. For a game that almost came out of nowhere, it's done well to maintain much of its popularity since its release back in July, but some have clamoured for more varied gameplay. The Wasteland map, coming free alongside the new Chaos Run DLC, may just …

Solar panel adoption is happening quicker today than it ever has before, which is why more than one per cent of the world's electricity is now delivered direct from the sun. However Google wants to help improve that even more, by taking data it has from its Google Earth imagery …

It's already been a few days since the New Horizons space craft made its historic flyby of the furthest flung planetary entity the human race has ever visited: Pluto. It took some awe inspiring images, the first of which we've begun to get our first look at, but there is …

Evolve's Big Alpha took place during the weekend just gone and while a few people weren't happy with the PS4 or matchmaking issues, many got to hunt and be hunted in turn with a number of different characters and a couple of unique looking monsters. There were however only three maps …

As much as I've talked about Evolve already, we still don't know a lot about it. Sure there's a few hunters we know by name and there's the hulking Goliath, but that's all we know about the opposing teams, who've only battled it out on the one map – so …

Last week the Danish government revealed its 1:1 scale replica of Denmark in Minecraft, the map was later put online to let curious players explore the country. However, things started going wrong pretty quickly when gamers were joining servers  just to blow up Danish towns and rebuild American flags and …

With the second part of the Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, launching in just a few weeks, the film-makers have launched this great interactive map of Middle Earth, that lets you explore iconic locations via clips, information and even mouse and keyboard controlled games in some of the most …