Shots fired Guns! They’re great, aren’t they? In games, we mean. The look and feel of a good gun can single-handedly transform a by-the-numbers shooter into something a bit special. And it helps if it looks badass too, since you spend 99% of your in-game time staring at the back …

New Destiny (opens in new tab) expansions and live events have rolled in like the tide over the last few years: with soothing regularity and occasionally full of shiny surprises. That will finally come to an end with the arrival of Destiny 2 (opens in new tab), but Bungie has …

Ever since Netflix went digital and allowed subscribers the opportunity to instantly gorge on thousands of films and TV shows, I’ve been wondering if gaming would ever get to the point where it could offer a similar service. Sony’s attempt with PlayStation Now (opens in new tab) was a move …

Of all the captains in Star Trek, Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine is the one carrying the heaviest weight. Kirk is a charming explorer who loses friends and family. Picard is a charismatic, fearless scholar whose very humanity is stolen away. Their losses come well after we know them, …

As explained in our Horizon: Zero Dawn review (opens in new tab), the PS4’s latest exclusive is a spectacular achievement for Guerrilla Games. For a studio that has focussed for over a decade on making largely linear shooters, the shift to a wide open action role-playing game with an emphasis …

Want to see what Johnny Depp would have looked like if he joined the Pirates franchise when he was far younger? And would you care to see a glimpse of some ghost sharks in action? The newest trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 has you covered on both fronts: …

For every Ken, Ryu, or Skullomania that makes it into a Street Fighter roster, many more potential characters don’t progress beyond their initial design stage. We sat down with game director Takayuki Nakayama to review some official concepts for Street Fighter 5 that didn’t make the cut… Elizabeth If a …

Within the first 30 minutes of popular episodic adventure game Life Is Strange, protagonist Max Caulfield has a disturbing vision of her town being torn apart by a tornado, witnesses one of her classmates shoot an old friend in the bathroom and learns that she has the ability to rewind …

The Oscars celebrate the best of the best, even if they did mess up the winner for Best Picture (opens in new tab)but what about the so-bad-it’s-actually-really-really-bad movies? Where’s their award? For that, you have the anti-Oscars, the Razzies: celebrating the absolute worst the movie industry has to offer. This …

Drag me to ‘Hill The cancellation of Silent Hills was just cruel. So much terrifying potential lurked in the single corridor of P.T that a full game might have been too much fear to actually handle. So, in mourning of what could have been, lets take a look back at …