Marvel’s Spider-Man PS4 (opens in new tab) is out now on Sony’s leading console, and not only is it the first licensed property for esteemed developer Insomniac Games, but it’s the first Spider-Man title in years to not come from the Activision-owned studio Beenox. Having originally ported several classic Spider-Man …
Read More »The best cyberpunk games you should be playing right now
For all the smog, overpopulation, economic imbalances, gigantic digital billboards, and the endless sea of small screens that characterize Earth’s major cities, you’d think we’ve already entered the futuristic dystopias that cyberpunk entertainment posits. But for many, the cyberpunk genre can offer an engrossing form of escapism; a glimpse at …
Read More »South Park: The Fractured But Whole Summons Unlock Guide
As well as the various allies from Coon and Friends and Freedom Pals you’ll recruit during South Park: The Fractured But Whole (opens in new tab), there are also some additional characters you can unlock to help you during combat. These Summons can each be used once during the same …
Read More »Assassins Creed Origins has a $59,000 pair of headphones
In case you want to give Ubisoft thousands of dollars without becoming a minority shareholder in the company, allow me to present the Assassin’s Creed Origins (opens in new tab) Utopia headphones. Based on the Assassin’s Creed Origins Listen Wireless headphones by audio company Focal, the Utopia edition features intricate …
Read More »Knack 2 review: “If it aint broke, its Knack(ered)”
They say that the last entry in any series anyone makes is the one that fails to make money. This means that, despite receiving a lot of lukewarm reviews – as well as some pretty scathing ones – the first Knack (opens in new tab) managed to find an audience. …
Read More »If words are cheap, the makers of Virginia are the richest of all, telling a gorgeous story without dialogue
In classical Latin, an ‘expression’ denotes an action of ‘pressing out’, or of a ‘projection’. In late Latin, it also represents ‘vividness’. It was only in the 15th century that ‘expression’ became synonymous with ‘putting into words’. This is a shame because too often, expression is only seen as the …
Read More »Were all talking about Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Developers explain how its shaping the future of games
It’s a massive cliche to call anything “the next Dark Souls” because that usually just means “another popular, super-hard game”. So suppress your eye-rolling reflex when I say The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab) might have already proven itself as the next Dark Souls. …
Read More »Why you should appreciate the quiet moments in Life Is Strange
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 …
Read More »The Silent Hill series: 10 shocking moments
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 …
Read More »8 boss fights that are way different from the rest of their games
Well that was unexpected Sometimes a change of pace is good. We may love a game to pixels and be happy to while away our days in its digital landscape, but once you start hitting 10, 20, 50-hour benchmarks, variety starts to become a necessity. It’s not hard to inject …
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