Last month, we learned that Blizzard’s team hero shooter Overwatch (opens in new tab) would be coming to PS4 and Xbox One (opens in new tab) as a full-priced game and not (as some had speculated) a free-to-play title. Today, game director Jeff Kaplan has revealed that additional Overwatch heroes …
Read More »Caught Up: see how PS2s Mark of Kri performs on PS4
This week on Caught Up we’re exploring the recently added PS2 classic, Mark of Kri. In case you missed the headlines, Sony recently rolled out their PS2 backwards compatibility solution for PS4. It’s a new section of PSN that sells PS2 games, and the first batch of games is… surprising, …
Read More »There are no heroes in The Tomorrow Children, only cogs
The Tomorrow Children is a machine, and you are but a tiny part of its function. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, this game has no heroes – you’re not even human. Long ago humanity perverted itself into a single, massive superorganism, manifesting as a cloudy white mass that stretches out …
Read More »Y2K blends horror, hipsters, and… Paper Mario?
How many times have you been up late, browsing the ‘net, only to find yourself tumbling down the rabbit hole of urban legends and complex conspiracies at 2 in the morning? Stories of mysterious videos, aliens encounters, and extremely slender men fill your imagination as night rolls into day. These …
Read More »Destiny: Xur weapons, gear, and location, December 4-6. Telesto!
Xur, Destiny (opens in new tab)’s weekend merchant, is back once again (much like the Renegade Master). Hope you’ve been saving your Strange Coins, because he’s got a coat-full of Exotic swag to sell you. This week Xur is over in the Reef, so don’t wander round the Tower looking …
Read More »Telltales Batman will let fans explore the “life and mind of Bruce Wayne”
By Sam Prell and Louise Blain Telltale Games is adding Batman to their library of properties adapted to episodic video games. That’s right, a Batman Telltale game is on the way for 2016. No official title was given but Telltale says (opens in new tab) that the game will “give …
Read More »Game of Thrones Season 6 teaser to everyone: you know nothing
HBO’s cheeky marketing for the upcoming 6th season of Game of Thrones is almost painfully contemporary in its latest turn. The latest teaser is happily smashing through the show’s odd narrative blockade, waving at George R.R. Martin’s source novels as it zooms by with a smirk. [Spoiler alert: This teaser …
Read More »Luke Cage set photos show a familiar ally
Marvel fans who’ve seen even one episode of Jessica Jones have already met Luke Cage – formerly known as Power Man in the comics but now mostly known as “the unbreakable guy with big muscles having lots of sex.” Well, Cage is getting his own Netflix series (opens in new …
Read More »Whoever wins this fight will be on UFC 2s cover with Ronda Rousey
EA has already revealed “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey as one of the UFC 2 cover stars (opens in new tab), but who’s going to stand next to her and beckon to gamers’ wallets? Turns out that even EA doesn’t know yet, because it’s waiting to see who wins the featherweight championship …
Read More »Best Frankenstein movies
“I busied myself to think of a story which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror; one to make the reader dread to look around, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart,” Mary Shelley once wrote as explanation for why …
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