Of all the captains in Star Trek, Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine is the one carrying the heaviest weight. Kirk is a charming explorer who loses friends and family. Picard is a charismatic, fearless scholar whose very humanity is stolen away. Their losses come well after we know them, …
Read More »Clumsy Cutie, Fighting President, and Lobster Hands – meet Street Fighter 5s culled warriors
For every Ken, Ryu, or Skullomania that makes it into a Street Fighter roster, many more potential characters don’t progress beyond their initial design stage. We sat down with game director Takayuki Nakayama to review some official concepts for Street Fighter 5 that didn’t make the cut… Elizabeth If a …
Read More »Why you should appreciate the quiet moments in Life Is Strange
Within the first 30 minutes of popular episodic adventure game Life Is Strange, protagonist Max Caulfield has a disturbing vision of her town being torn apart by a tornado, witnesses one of her classmates shoot an old friend in the bathroom and learns that she has the ability to rewind …
Read More »Batman v Superman wins big at the Razzies 2017 – see the full Hall of Shame here
The Oscars celebrate the best of the best, even if they did mess up the winner for Best Picture (opens in new tab)but what about the so-bad-it’s-actually-really-really-bad movies? Where’s their award? For that, you have the anti-Oscars, the Razzies: celebrating the absolute worst the movie industry has to offer. This …
Read More »The Silent Hill series: 10 shocking moments
Drag me to ‘Hill The cancellation of Silent Hills was just cruel. So much terrifying potential lurked in the single corridor of P.T that a full game might have been too much fear to actually handle. So, in mourning of what could have been, lets take a look back at …
Read More »Destiny: Xur weapons, gear, and location, February 24 – 26. Hawkmoon!
Xur, Destiny (opens in new tab)’s travelling weekend trader, registered Kabaddi referee, and owner of the most eclectic collection of vintage swanee whistles in the solar system, is back. This week he’s over in the Tower, next to the Crucible Quartermaster, in the corridor on the way down to the …
Read More »10 things I learned playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab) is only a week away. It’s the most-anticipated Nintendo title of a generation, which will likely be the metric used to measure the success of the Switch. I recently got the chance to play the final version of …
Read More »Hitman Season 2 – “I would like a game where all levels are ups!” says IO Interactives creative director
This interview was conducted by Official PlayStation Magazine Despite bagging a top ten spot in our 2016 Game Of The Year list, Hitman isn’t quite done. Just before Christmas we were surprised by the festive feast of a Home Alone-inspired Paris makeover (the two targets being the hapless goons from …
Read More »The Ghost Recon: Wildlands beta starts today, play a mini game to earn rewards for the main game while you wait
A reminder for all you would-be special forces and military tacticians, the Ghost Recon: Wildlands (opens in new tab) open beta starts tomorrow. But if you’re really eager to jump into an open world of cartel smashing, you can get a head start and download it now. And if you …
Read More »Here are the Switch launch games, but install sizes suggest youll want a memory card day one
Nintendo Switch (opens in new tab) will have nine games when it comes out on March 3, and about 25 GB out of its 32 GB of internal storage free for downloading. From what we know of the file sizes for games, you’re definitely going to need to buy a …
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