The best Star Wars games will, like the esteemed movie series itself, divide opinion. If you know your Lego iterations from your EA and Bioware slants, you’ll already know how varied the galaxy far, far away is in video game form – all of which makes gathering the best of …
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These are, we’ll admit, extremely unusual times. Any sense of normality has evaporated as people are being asked to take social-distancing and self-isolation measures for safety. In times like these, the priority is to take care of your health, physical and mental, and to keep yourself safe while following the …
Read More »GTA 5s swappable triad is still the smartest idea Rockstar has contributed to video games
Get more great writing from Official Xbox Magazine (Image credit: Future) This article is taken from Official Xbox Magazine, your guide to Xbox One and with the inside track on Xbox One Series X. Subscribe now for as little as $9 for three digital issues (opens in new tab). I …
Read More »Official Xbox Magazine celebrates the 100 greatest Xbox games you can play today in this months issue
From the earth-shattering Halo Combat Evolved to the huge open-world games we enjoy today on Xbox One, Official Xbox Magazine (opens in new tab) details the 100 Xbox games of all time – all still playable courtesy of back compatibility and Game Pass. We talk to Xbox’s Aaron Greenberg about …
Read More »How video games are making the world a better place in 2019
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 »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 »Why Battlefield Bad Company 2 made us feel more like heroes than Battlefield 5s cannon-fodder
If there’s one thing we can learn from the last two Battlefield outings, set in their particularly crisp and atmospheric renditions of World War 1 (Battlefield 1 (opens in new tab)) and World War 2 (Battlefield 5 (opens in new tab)), it’s that war back then was carnage. These were …
Read More »BioWare teases something special for the Anthem demos Sunday finale
After the troubled Anthem (opens in new tab) game VIP demo – which ended with BioWare handing out skins and javelins (opens in new tab) to make up for all the downtime – a public demo is scheduled for this weekend from Friday, February 1 through Sunday, February 3. What’s …
Read More »Bioware had an entire team dedicating to stripping story references from the Anthem alpha
Bioware really, really doesn’t want you to know much about the Anthem (opens in new tab) game story ahead of review. Not only have official details from the studio been light, but it turns out the team have gone out of its way to make sure there aren’t any other …
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