If you were eyeing up Friday The 13th (opens in new tab) on Xbox but were put off by reports of its unfinished state, then good news: it’s been patched and oh my God it’s fixed everything. You can see the patch notes below and, well, there’s not a lot …
Read More »The new Red Dead Redemption 2 screens might have a few clues – heres what people have found so far
Rockstar has announced a delay to Red Dead Redemption 2 (opens in new tab), so here’s the mandatory ‘boo!’. Now we’ve got that out of the way, Rockstar has quelled our pouting somewhat by releasing a bunch of new Red Dead Redemption 2 screens (opens in new tab) to help …
Read More »Total War: Warhammer 2’s Lizardmen are a brutal blast to play, while the campaign offers a different kind of scale
It’s ironic that some are complaining that Total War: Warhammer 2 is being released ‘too soon’ after its predecessor, particularly given the claims that such a schedule makes the game feel more like a DLC expansion. Because while ‘expansion’ is absolutely the operative word in terms of TW: WH2’s overarching …
Read More »Were all talking about Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Developers explain how its shaping the future of games
It’s a massive cliche to call anything “the next Dark Souls” because that usually just means “another popular, super-hard game”. So suppress your eye-rolling reflex when I say The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab) might have already proven itself as the next Dark Souls. …
Read More »Doom 3 is a great game, but it could have been so much more
Ask a random gamer, PC owner or not, for opinions of Doom and you’ll be lucky if you get one. Ask them for memories and you’ll get a dozen. Even those who’ve never shot the barrel and turned the imp into pixel mush remember it as if they had, its …
Read More »The story behind Halo: Combat Evolveds massive success on Xbox
How would Microsoft have fared in a Bungie-free world? A world where its masterful space opera hadn’t greased the Xbox slip road with high-grade Warthog engine oil? The system’s first and biggest star has flared brighter still since its appearance, two console generations ago, but on launch day it was …
Read More »Jon Snow has a “tiny pecker” because Kit Harington is too perfect say Game of Thrones showrunners
Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) fans, I hate to remind you of this, but Jon Snow has one teeny, tiny flaw: his penis. And according to showrunners David Benioff and Daniel Weiss, that’s because actor Kit Harington is just too damn perfect. “There has to be some downside …
Read More »The most ludicrously impractical RPG weapons
Videogames are a realm of fantasy. They’re placed where your imagination can run wild, where you can pursue adventures you didn’t know existed – and where there are weapons on offer that would make a blacksmith cry. It’s up to you whether that’s from joy or sheer madness, but taking …
Read More »Filming Star Wars: The Last Jedi got Oscar Isaac slapped 27 times by Carrie Fisher
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (opens in new tab)star Oscar Isaac has been talking about the time he spent on the movie with the late, great Carrie Fisher. Apparently the star spent a lot of it being slapped by the actress. Like, a lot of slapping. Speaking on The Late …
Read More »Cannes 2017: Will Robert Pattinson win Best Actor? All the prizes predicted
Predicting awards at the Cannes Film Festival never fails to prove that William Goldman’s famous quote “Nobody knows anything” applies as much to the artistic merits of world cinema as to the commercial chances of Hollywood movies. There are too many factors at play to even make much of an …
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