Today sees the release of Forza Horizon 2 presents Fast & Furious, a condensed nugget of fuel-injected beauty from Playground Games. It’s also that increasingly common thing, a standalone DLC pack, derived from the game it uses for its name, but different enough to warrant opening it up to a …
Read More »The perils of innovation, and why Bloodborne is more like CoD than you think
“Bah!”, we moan every November, with blindly religious fervour. “Call of Duty! Again! It’s the same again, because Call of Duty is always the same, and that’s just lazy and stupid. Let’s complain smugly until the collective power of our complaints makes it go away”. And you know what? We’re …
Read More »My Favourite Game: Felicia Day
Felicia Day is a serial overachiever, the kind of person you might resent if she didn’t have such a disarmingly likeable manner. The 35-year-old actor, writer and producer created her own successful original web series The Guild (inspired by her obsession with World Of Warcraft), contributed voice acting to Fallout: …
Read More »Players have overthrown governments! – The epic story of Elite: Dangerous
Founder and CEO of Frontier Developments, David Braben, had a busy GDC, picking up awards and announcing the release of massive space MMO Elite: Dangerous (opens in new tab) on Xbox One later this year. Initially revealed as an Xbox exclusive, Braben later admitted on Twitter that PlayStation owners will …
Read More »Why you should return to Driveclub on PS4
My own feelings towards Driveclub will always be a bit… complicated. As a lifelong racing game fan I approached it with equal parts enthusiasm and intense scrutiny. A scrutiny which the game absolutely stood up to during my review process, which took part on the game’s public servers prior to …
Read More »Best PS4 apps
More out of 4 Sonys newest generation of hardware is a huge step up from the PS3, and I dont just mean graphically. The PS4 interface is leagues ahead of the old XMB, with more straightforward menus and system updates – how did we live with those old system updates? …
Read More »Halo 5 #HUNTtheTRUTH
On Friday 20th March, a Tumblr page (opens in new tab) was discovered, featuring little more than a countdown clock and a Halo 5: Guardians logo. On Sunday 22nd March, that countdown ended, beginning what’s looking like 12 full weeks of teasing reveals about Halo 5: Guardians, collected under the …
Read More »Is it just me? or is Bring It On a teen classic?
In our regular polarising-opinion series, one Total Film writer asks if cheerleading comedy Bring It On is actually an underrated gem. Read on, and let us know if you agree with the argument put forward by having your say in the comments section below. Is it just me? … or …
Read More »Top 100: Why Ultra Street Fighter 4 is a mechanical masterclass
Street Fighter 4 may only be number 29 in our list of the best 100 games of all time (opens in new tab), but if this were a list of the greatest individual video game mechanics of all time it’d be jostling for top spot. To my mind, the best …
Read More »The Chief is going back to his roots in Halo 5
Everyone knew he was coming back. From Xbox One’s announcement, it was always just a matter of time before the Chief crashed through the atmosphere and reminded us all just what a real FPS looks like. The focus of Halo 5: Guardians is exactly that, and with it a beautiful …
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