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It's competition time again folks and boy oh boy have we got an absolute gem for you!

To help celebrate the upcoming release (10th October) of Middle-earth: Shadow of War which is now available to pre-order, we've teamed up with the amazing people at Warner Brothers to bring you one of our biggest and best competitions yet!

Middle-earth: Shadow of War™ is the sequel to the hugely popular and critically-acclaimed Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor™ which picked up more than a whopping 50 industry awards, including 2015 Game Developers Choice Awards’ Game of the Year, Outstanding Innovation in Gaming at the 2015 D.I.C.E. Awards and the BAFTA for Game Design.

In Middle-earth: Shadow of War, players wield a new Ring of Power and confront the deadliest of enemies, including Sauron and his Nazgul, in a monumental battle for Middle-earth. This open-world RPG is brought to life through the expansion of the award-winning Nemesis System. The robust personalization from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is now applied to the entire world where the environments and characters are all shaped by player actions and decisions, creating a personal world unique to every gameplay experience. Pretty amazing, right?

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Hello gamers!

In a world these days full of RAMs, GIGs and High Definition dodaas, we often find ourselves looking at some of the very latest technology and thinking....wow it's amazing but also sooo expensive! This got us thinking, were consoles always so much? How would the prices back in the 70s, 80s & 90s compare to what we're paying now?

Well! To find out just that, we thought we would put together a little comparison, translating the classic price tags into modern day values so we can see just how much we were (okay okay...our parents) were pay for some of our all-time favourite consoles. Take a look...

1977 Atari 2600

£169 (bundled with Combat) = £890.83 now

1986 NES

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