Battlefield 1 (opens in new tab) is a big departure for the long-running FPS franchise. Games in the series have taken place in WW2, the distant future, and modern day. But soon it’ll give players a taste of World War 1 – AKA The Great War. How soon? How does …
Read More »Movies to watch this week at the cinema: David Brent: Life on the Road, Tickled, Swallows and Amazons, more…
Out on Friday 19 August Ricky’s office boss goes big screen. A tickling endurance competition gets even weirder than it sounds. Arthur Ransome’s outdoor novel receives the film treatment. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of David Brent: Life on the Road, Tickled, Swallows and …
Read More »The PlayStation 4 4.0 update will finally let you sort your games and apps the way you want
Remember when registration to beta test PS4’s upcoming 4.0 update (opens in new tab) opened last month? Well, Sony is finally ready to reveal just what the 4.0 update includes. The PlayStation Blog (opens in new tab) has the full details, but the short and sweet version is that the …
Read More »Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Thems new trailer shows off more magical creatures
Disney dropped a new trailer (opens in new tab) for Star Wars: Rogue One (opens in new tab) during the Olympics last week, and Warner Bros. have also chosen to take advantage of the world’s biggest sporting event by unveiling a new promo for its own winter blockbuster Fantastic Beasts …
Read More »South Park: The Fractured But Whole parodies Oculus Rift with a fart-smelling VR device
South Park: The Fractured But Whole (opens in new tab) does not look like a terribly mature game. Maybe “M for Mature,” but not, you know, the actual definition of the word. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the latest ad for the game shows off the Nosulus …
Read More »Spider-Man Homecoming gets new The Tinkerer details and a potential new villain *SPOILERS*
We only found out yesterday that Spider-Man: Homecoming (opens in new tab) has added Orange is the New Black’s Michael Chernus to its cast as master tech villain The Tinkerer (opens in new tab), Phineas Mason, but rumours have given us a few more details about this specific iteration of …
Read More »No Mans Sky has a super-easy item duping exploit right now
If you had a way to duplicate your rare resources in No Man’s Sky (opens in new tab), you’d literally have a shortcut to the center of the Universe. No more worries about farming up warp cells and the like, you could just plot a course and go. Obviously that …
Read More »David Brent: Life on the Road review
It takes a brave man to make a feature film out of a British sitcom – and a braver one still to make one out of a British sitcom that hasn’t been on TV for 13 years. Thankfully, David Brent: Life on the Road gives Ricky Gervais’ monstrous middle manager …
Read More »Nintendo NX detachable controller rumors get backed up with official patents
When we first heard that Nintendo NX (opens in new tab) would be a handheld system with detachable controllers (opens in new tab), we only had anonymous sources to rely on. A newly published patent credited to Nintendo engineers lends some official credence to that general idea while introducing some …
Read More »Prey: Breaking and remaking the rules, as BioShock meets Dishonored
For a long time, I’ve bemoaned this generation’s lack of a BioShock moment. Don’t get me wrong, games have been brilliant since 2013. The console hardware has increasingly shown its might, and game designs have evolved very nicely indeed from their last-gen roots. But it’s been a process of small, …
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