August, 2015

• 10 August

  8 fantastic, fresh concepts that should have made for much better games

  

  Don’t tempt me, Frodo! There’s nothing quite like a cool new concept to turn the head of an otherwise jaded gamer. In a world of samey spectacle and me-too marketing, the original idea is king, and always very, very welcome. Though it is a double-edged sword. Failing to follow through …

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• 10 August

  This GTA 5 car explosion chain reaction video is utterly mesmerizing

  

  All it takes to throw Los Santos into total societal breakdown is one little motorcycle accident. This first-person GTA 5 (opens in new tab) video shows one of the most remarkable demonstrations of cause-and-effect I’ve ever seen, virtual or otherwise, as one wreck stretches out into about four minutes of …

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• 10 August

  First Westworld trailer is all about the robots

  

  HBO has revealed the first trailer for its Westworld (opens in new tab)remake, the sci-fi Western set in a set in a futuristic theme park, where a fleet of robots fulfil the most hedonistic desires of the park’s guests. And while the new show will broadly follow the same storyline …

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• 7 August

  Spielbergs Ready Player One booting up in 2017

  

  Steven Spielberg is gearing up to shoot Ready Player One, the long-awaited adaptation of Ernest Cline’s sci-fi novel, for a 2017 release date. Warner Bros., Dreamworks and Village Roadshow will produce the film, as written by Zak Penn. Cline’s book is a detailed homage to ’80s popular culture, framed through …

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• 6 August

  Guardians isnt a traditional Halo game, but thats just fine

  

  This isn’t a traditional Halo (opens in new tab) game. The series has moved on for a new generation of consoles, and you need to move with it. Accept that, and there’s loads to love in the game’s new story mode, which is entirely playable in co-op. Oh, and it’s …

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• 5 August

  You could get $1,000 for recreating this Mario 64 glitch

  

  Speedruns are built on glitches, exploits, and anything else that can get you from the start screen to the credits as quickly as possible. Few games have as active and dedicated of a speedrunning community as Super Mario 64 – which is why one of their number is offering a …

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• 3 August

  Im rooting for Asura way more than Kratos

  

  [Warning: Spoilers for Asura’s Wrath and the God of War series below.] I’ve never liked Kratos much, mostly because I’m not as impressed with him as God of War clearly wants me to be. Sure, it looks spectacular when he kills a Titan by jamming a two-story spike through its …

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• 2 August

  In No Mans Sky your gun is a multitool wonder

  

  As nebulous a concept as a procedurally-generated spare exploration sim might sound on the surface, the closer we come to actually playing No Man’s Sky for real, the more developer Hello Games astounds us with new features and attractions (come on, you know you’re going to name a planet after …

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• 1 August

  An evening with Nolan North

  

  If there’s one thing in this world we’re particularly partial to, it’s a good chinwag with Nolan North (especially if it includes how he was thrown about by a stuntman during the making of Uncharted 3). We’ve already In a previous issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, the voice of Nathan …

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• 1 August

  Game of Thrones showrunners planning beyond season 7

  

  Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have always maintained that the sprawling fantasy series had a definite end in sight after 7 years. At the Television Critics Association press tour on Thursday, HBO programming chief Michael Lombardo told a different story. “Seven-seasons-and-out has never been the conversation,” …

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