Update: Blizzard has revealed the new Overwatch hero’s name is Wrecking Ball, but yep, that’s definitely Hammond. Check out this origin story video to find out more. The next hero for Overwatch has been confirmed, and it’s almost definitely not what you were expecting. Unless you were expecting a hyper-intelligent …
Read More »Pokemon Quest recipes – What they are, which Pokemon they attract and what youll need to make them
We might not be getting the core Pokemon Switch (opens in new tab) RPG until at least next year, and we’ve got to wait until November to play Pokemon Let’s Go (opens in new tab) Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee, but there is a new Pokemon game you can play …
Read More »Warframes TennoCon 2018 event is coming up, heres how you can watch from home
Warframe fans already know why the annual event called TennoCon is the most exciting time of year to be into futuristic ninjas with weird suits and cool weapons. For everybody else, it’s easy to find out. Set for July 7 this year, TennoCon is an official celebration of all things …
Read More »Leave No Trace review: “A subtle, assured, and often powerful tale”
Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik’s latest feature is a deceptively simple work – and all the better for it. A father-daughter tale, it’s adapted from Peter Rock’s 2009 book My Abandonment, which itself was inspired by a true story. Ben Foster plays Will, a war veteran living with his daughter …
Read More »Beneath the glam make-up, power ballads, and Spandex… GLOW season 2 has a smart, important story to tell
“It is a very strange sensation doing quiet, very emotional scenes, with full wrestling hair and make-up on,” reflects GLOW lead Betty Gilpin (Debbie / Liberty Bell) while discussing the heightened emotions and very on-the-nose issues of season 2. It gets to the heart of what makes Netflix’s accomplished female-wrestling …
Read More »Fallout 76 nukes explained: why they probably wont ruin your day but theyll still be super valuable
Fallout 76 (opens in new tab) will be the first game in the post-nuclear role-playing series to let players launch their own full-scale nuclear weapons at will… but what does that mean for when you’re actually in the game? Will high-level players monopolize missile silos to continually blow the hell …
Read More »Video game addiction is now a disorder. But what does that mean and why does it matter?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has added ‘gaming disorder’ to the latest edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). This comes after the American Psychiatric Association listed ‘internet gaming disorder’ as a ‘condition for further study’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) in …
Read More »Mario Tennis Aces review: “Experimental, tactical and downright kooky matches every time”
Mario gets about, doesn’t he? In the past year, he’s been on a globetrotting Odyssey, joined forces with some Rabbids to save the world (again), and now he’s donning his sneakers in time to surf the astroturf in Mario Tennis Aces. It’s been three years since we last had a …
Read More »Incredibles 2 review: “A blast, brilliantly animated and furious fun”
The world has changed a lot since The Incredibles. Not the world shown in Incredibles 2 – set directly after the first movie, this sees our spandex-suited superfamily still foiling bad guys in the early ’60s and still frowned on by government and public alike – but, y’know, the real …
Read More »Remedy’s Control offers a supernatural take on 1984, with Metroidvania elements and shape-shifting buildings
For a long time, Remedy’s new game has been known only as P7, but what’s now known as Control is shaping up to be quite the intriguing third-person shooter. It turns out that actually the word shape has quite a lot to do with what makes Control look quite so …
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