***UPDATE***: Skate 3’s ‘in progress’ note on the Xbox 360 backward compatibility wish list has been in place for a few months, GR+ has been informed, so this note isn’t confirmation by itself – but the emergence of the dashboard image does suggest Skate 3 in imminent, when both items …
Read More »Why should gamers care about 4K and HDR?
4K (opens in new tab) and HDR have arrived. In a move sure to please the majority of gamers (as long as you’ve got a 4K TV), the PS4 Pro (opens in new tab) and Xbox One Scorpio (opens in new tab) will run upcoming 4K releases like Horizon: Zero …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto: Vice City remastered intro
Some too-good-for-this-world angel has taken Grand Theft Auto: Vice City’s intro and remastered it into a stylish, VHS-artifacted nostalgia bomb. And it’s making me really conflicted. Every few seconds I have to remind myself that I actually am glad Rockstar is spending its limited resources on creating new games like …
Read More »How Bungie pioneered the modern console shooter – with a strategy game built for PC
Famously, Halo: Combat Evolved – the game that changed the landscape of first-person shooters on console forever – began life neither as a first-person shooter, nor on console. I do not consider this a coincidence. But before we get into that, a brief history lesson. The world’s first glimpse of …
Read More »Dishonored 2s new trailer is all about Corvos powers and possessing corpses
There’s only a matter of a week and a few days before we can step back into the boots of Corvo Attano and play as Emily Kaldwin in Dishonored 2 (opens in new tab). It seems fair then that we get a further look at some of Corvo’s new powers …
Read More »Destiny Festival of the Lost 2016 trailer and start date
Destiny (opens in new tab)’s Halloween event is coming back for its third year and Guardians around the world are getting ready to exchange mass quantities of blood-candy for garish headgear. Bungie’s put out a new trailer for The Festival of the Lost and sent along some new details: all …
Read More »Skylanders Imaginators review
Fine, I admit it: I’ve been known to show off my Destiny (opens in new tab) Hunter to friends in the pub. I have a folder of pictures of her halfway up Felwinter Peak on Facebook, looking all cloaky and cool. But why does this trivia matter except to put …
Read More »Theres a real-life Halo museum at 343 industries and its full of cool stuff – take a look
343 Industries is the Microsoft-owned development house of the Halo series, and it’s darn proud of it. Regardless of where or when they signed on, employees need to appreciate where the franchise came from and how it’s grown. That’s why 343 dedicated a space in its Redmond, WA headquarters to …
Read More »Two new Resident Evil 7 videos show off new locations, phone calls and a shotgun
While we’re waiting for an update to the Resident Evil 7 demo (opens in new tab) Capcom have released the two super short micro-trailers. Here’s the first, simply called ‘Mysterious Caller’: The main thing to take away from that is that there are three different phones in different settings (one …
Read More »Battlefield 1 Battlepacks help you build special melee weapons. Cmon exotic shovels!
Battlefield 1 (opens in new tab) will let you customize your semi-historical soldiers with Battlepacks, just like Battlefield 4 and Battlefield Hardline. But they worked a little bit differently back in the Great War: instead of offering an assortment of items like weapon grips and XP boosters, each Battlepack is …
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