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By Marshall Lemon What do you think of when you picture eSports? MOBA leagues? First-person shooter tournaments? Studio Wildcard has a completely different image in mind – that of vulnerable humans fleeing velociraptors or a giant T-Rex. After the huge early access success of its dinosaur-based Ark: Survival Evolved, Studio …

Out on Friday 29 April Cap and Iron Man go head to head. László Nemes’ harrowing debut will make your blood run cold. Jake Gyllenhaal brings down the house. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of Captain America: Civil War, Son of Saul, Demolition, Heaven …

Sometimes the best ideas need space to grow. Titanfall (opens in new tab) was one of the first genuinely strong console exclusives of this generation: a game built on a platform of fresh ideas and polished gameplay that really hooked players… for about a month. After that initial rush of …

Naughty Dog has made two thing’s clear with Uncharted 4 (opens in new tab): it’s not making anymore after this, and a number 5 will be tricky following A Thief’s End’s conclusion. More specifically director Neil Druckmann said: “at the end of this story, it will be really hard to …

Ok, everyone. Gather ’round. It’s time for some Real Talk™. Knack is a bad video game. It is the very definition of a two-and-a-half-star game (opens in new tab). Like its protagonist, Knack has no heart and it falls apart completely under any kind of close scrutiny. It’s difficult, but …

As the first non-Episode Star Wars movie, Rogue One (opens in new tab) has a lot of live up to, but if the first trailer (opens in new tab) is anything to go by, it’s off to a great start. We know relatively little about the spin-off movie (even compared …

It’s been years, but I still remember those watermelons like it was yesterday. Maybe you know the ones: strewn throughout Siberia, the first level in the legendary FPS TimeSplitters 2. There was no logical explanation for dozens of uncut watermelons sitting on shelves in a research lab-turned-military outpost, nor did …

The best parts of the open-world Arkham games come at the end. That’s not a slight against the games’ quality. I love them a great deal – with the sole exception of Origins – and have sunk more hours than I wish to calculate about into rinsing City and Knight. …

When you think about the Marvel Universe, you think Spider-Man and the X-Men, sure – but Iron Man and Hulk and Thor and Captain America and the Fantastic Four and all the rest too. DC has older properties (Wonder Woman, born in 1942; Green Lantern, from 1940; the Flash, who …

Twenty years changes many things, but this much is true: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is the best role-playing game starring a plumber with Boogie Nights facial hair and big ups. Many games have challenged the title held by this collaboration between Nintendo and Squaresoft. Paper Mario …