If you’ve seen the latest episode of Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) (if not you really shouldn’t be here because major spoilers (opens in new tab) are on the way), I don’t need to tell you how incredible it is. Episode 8, Kiksuya (opens in new tab), finally …
Read More »Nintendo E3 rumors: Super Smash Bros, Pokemon, and the hopeful dreams of Animal Crossing
Nintendo has already revealed a pair of games that will fall under the spotlight during the Nintendo E3 press conference – Super Smash Bros for Switch and Pokemon Let’s Go (opens in new tab), the latter offering a Pikachu and an Eevee variety. Interestingly, we know there are probably a …
Read More »20 things Bungie needs to fix in Destiny 2: Forsaken
With the imminent reveal of Destiny 2: Forsaken, it feels like we might finally be on the cusp of a huge (and crucially, positive) watershed moment. Long maligned by the game’s community for removing depth, grind, and diversity from its sequel in favour of cosmetic loot and a whole lot …
Read More »Madden 19 teams – 2018’s NFL Draft
2018’s NFL Draft is over. Free agency is complete too, at least where the major movers and shakers are concerned, meaning it’s now possible to predict how all 32 NFL teams will line up next season – and, as a result, who’ll be the most exciting to play as on …
Read More »Cannes 2018: Gaspar Noé is back on career-best form with the shocking Climax
Few filmmakers have the power to tease, torment, and shock like Gaspar Noé. The Argentinian provocateur behind ultra-violent, ultra-depraved, ultra-lurid features Irreversible (opens in new tab), Enter the Void (opens in new tab) and atypically tepid 3D sex movie Love (opens in new tab) has always known how to push …
Read More »Cannes 2018: Mads Mikkelsen goes full Revenant in snowbound survival movie Arctic
From Cast Away (opens in new tab) to All is Lost, the lone-survivor subgenre has been well served by cinema. Cutting straight to the heart of humanity, Arctic is a snow-pure example of a familiar story, in which a man comes face to face with nature’s utter indifference towards our …
Read More »The Avengers: Infinity War writers talk juggling a big cast, focusing on Thanos, and what to expect from Avengers 4
Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, Avengers: Infinity War (opens in new tab) is huge. Well, it was always going to be as the culmination (along with Avengers: Endgame (opens in new tab)) of the MCU to date and its 18 – now 19 – movies. There are …
Read More »Want to improve your life? Stop caring about completing games and just *finish* them
I used to think that achieving 100% completion of a game was the surest way to know I loved it. If I was truly enamored with a game’s world, aesthetic, and mechanics, why would I ever leave any extra content on the table? This was at an age when most …
Read More »“You’re going to own the apocalypse”: How Overkills The Walking Dead will make you excited about zombie games again
Resident Evil, Call of Duty, Dead Rising, Dying Light, Left 4 Dead, State of Decay, Dead Island, Plants vs. Zombies… it can often seem as though zombie games are as much of an epidemic as the creatures they so often portray. Not just that, but cast out the net into …
Read More »Dolores is darker, Bernard is damaged, and 11 other things you need to know about Westworld season 2
Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) is very nearly here and we still know surprisingly little about what we’ll be getting when it arrives. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing – the success of the first season is mainly down to the fact that you don’t know what’s going …
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