WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) audiences now know, in no uncertain terms, that Jon Snow is not the bastard son of Eddard Stark. He is in fact Aegon Targaryen, son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. That makes Jon Dany’s nephew, and Dany Jon’s aunt. …
Read More »The Mist doesn’t deserve a second season but this is why we need one
*Beware: spoilers for The Mist season 1 inside* And it’s over. Done. Complete and probably never to be renewed again. However, if there’s ever a TV series that wants – no, NEEDS – a season 2, it’s The Mist, simply because story-wise it isn’t actually over. Not even close. Ending …
Read More »Half-Life 3: Ex-Valve writer shares fan fiction thats as close as well get to a Episode 2 sequel
We’ll probably never get another Half-Life game (opens in new tab), but where official Valve canon fails us, series writer Marc Laidlaw does not. The former Valve employee who wrote Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and both of Half-Life 2’s episodes has shared a fictional letter on his personal site (opens in …
Read More »“Weve rebuilt the Crackdown 3 franchise for a new generation” – Clint Bundrick on Xbox One Xs (eventual) first big exclusive
Let’s just skip past that unfortunate Crackdown 3 2018 delay (opens in new tab) and get straight to what the Xbox One X (opens in new tab) game is all about: Power. It’s a game that has always been interested in exploring the pursuit of power. This isn’t something that it …
Read More »Call of Duty WW2 lets you experience D-Day as a Nazi
One of the new multiplayer modes for Call Of Duty WW2 (opens in new tab) is War Mode, which sees a squad of players working together to achieve objectives. In other words rushing in all guns blazing and screaming swears into your mic isn’t going to cut it in this …
Read More »Why itll pay to hang out in Call Of Duty WW2s new social Headquarters
One of the new features that Call Of Duty WW2 (opens in new tab) is bringing to the series is Headquarters, a social space where players can meet up and find new missions. Think of it as a cross between Destiny’s Tower and a World Of Warcraft capital cities; the …
Read More »Pokemon Go datamine reveals Gen 3 Pokemon, new incubator, and changes to Raids
Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, and more Gen 3 Pokemon are coming to Pokemon Go (opens in new tab) soon, as evidenced by the latest datamine from Pokemon Go fan site The Silph Road (opens in new tab). Digging through the files of APK version 0.71.0, these poke-sleuths have discovered data for …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege is played by 2.3 million people every day… whats its secret?
For many of us, Rainbow Six Siege (opens in new tab) is a game that came and went. Though there was the standard Ubisoft marketing build-up prior to launch, some early stumbles and tepid critical reception combined with a dearth of content to shuffle Siege quickly out of the gaming …
Read More »Faster loading and “pushing the limits of the visuals” – what Assassins Creed Origins gets from Xbox One X
Assassin’s Creed Origins (opens in new tab) is going big on Xbox One X (opens in new tab), pushing its ‘enhanced’ capabilities as the definitive version of the game. But what does that really mean? We spoke to director Ashraf Ismail to find out more. “It’s a wonderful thing …
Read More »Be the Dragonborn more than ever before when Skyrim VR comes to PSVR on November 17
Skyrim VR. It’s been on everyone’s mind since virtual reality became a viable technology again, the go-to example of how we’ll know that the tech is worth investing in. And now we have a release date for this standalone Skyrim (opens in new tab) experience: November 17. Bethesda announced the …
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