2018 may have been a good year for video game releases, but it was also a year in which the industry’s reputation took an undeserved hit. On top of the Trump administration’s continued scapegoating of the medium, the rise of Fortnite (opens in new tab) has led to heightened fears …
Read More »Nintendo Switch Lite is real and we know the release date, cost, and special Pokemon edition details
The existence of a Nintendo Switch Lite has been heavily rumoured for some time now, and to nobody’s surprise, they turned out to be true. Everything from the Nintendo Switch Lite price (opens in new tab) and release date to the specs have been confirmed officially by Nintendo, so read …
Read More »Does Borderlands 3 have too many guns? “We definitely reached a threshold where it doesnt matter how big the number is”
As well as being known for its tongue-in-cheek sense of humour, cartoonish graphics, and general disdain for the laws of physics, Borderlands 3 is really known for its guns. Whole mountains of them. Borderlands had a total of 17.75 million procedurally-generated guns. Borderlands 2 upped the game with a more …
Read More »Xbox One X Enhanced games – Every game with 4K resolution, HDR, higher framerates, and more
Xbox One X Enhanced games will bring out the very best in Microsoft’s powerful high-end console. These games come in all shapes and sizes – exclusive or multiplatform, current or backwards compatible, available now or still to come – but no matter the circumstances, they’re going to look excellent. Visual …
Read More »Final Fantasy 7 Remake is everything you want it to be, so put down the pitchforks
There are a lot of things from 1997 that haven’t stood the test of time. Alien Resurrection, the song Mmmbop, Teen Angel, my crush on Leonardo Di Caprio, but the new Final Fantasy 7 Remake (opens in new tab) stands up to its modern rivals and then some. We’ve all …
Read More »The missing games of E3 2019
With E3 2019 (opens in new tab) winding down it’s time to look back across the week and imagine what could have been. Sure, there are loads of really awesome E3 2019 games (opens in new tab) to look forward to now, but we can’t help but think about all …
Read More »The Outer Worlds E3 2019 preview: The best RPG Bethesda never made
There’s dramatic irony, and then there’s the The Outer Worlds (opens in new tab) and the way it is relentlessly satirising corporatism when its makers have just been acquired by one of the largest corporations in the world. Given their penchant for seeing the funny side of things, though, it …
Read More »eFootball PES 2020 hands-on proves mixed news for die-hard fans of the series
The shock news is that Konami’s long-running Pro Evolution Soccer series has rebranded as eFootball PES 2020. What’s less clear is why PES has focused on eSports and how it affects long-term fans of the series. We sat down to play 30 minutes of PES 2020 (we can’t bring ourselves …
Read More »What do you want to see announced at E3 2019?
All the E3 2019 (opens in new tab) press conferences and live streams are just around the corner, which – hopefully – means lots of new game announcements and reveals are on the way. We already know we’re going to get to see sexy new footage of games like The …
Read More »Code Vein wears its influences on its sleeve, but its adding its own wrinkles to the popular Souls-like formula
Bandai Namco’s bite-’em-up wants to bring all the long-forgotten vampiric original characters of your early tweenaged nightmares to unlife at long last. An impressively granular character creation system allows you to finely tune the appearance of your resurrected Revenant. You can combine a number of hair style parts to create that …
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