In the grand tradition of all MMOs, the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited (opens in new tab) on console isn’t going particularly well. With many a cry of ‘Elder Scrolls Offline’, the PS4 and Xbox One version, developed by Zenimax Online Studios is having multiple issues, from …
Read More »Nathan Fillion returns with a new look for Halo 5: Guardians
Veteran voice actor and professional handsome fella Nathan Fillion will apparently reprise his role as Halo 3: ODST hero Edward Buck in Halo 5: Guardians this October. A trailer from Game Informer showcasing their July issue coverage of the game shows Buck in his newly-rendered glory, indicating he’ll have some …
Read More »The 8 biggest excuses for poor gaming performance, reviewed and rated
‘Well excuuuuse me, Princess!’ ‘Excuses, excuses’ – where in the world would we be without them? Probably turning up to all of those social functions we’d drunkenly agreed to, or heaven forbid, actually out using our gym memberships. Eurgh Well, I for one don’t want to live in a world …
Read More »The Assassins Creed movie gets its first poster
Here’s one for your Eagle Vision. The first feathery poster for the Assassin’s Creed movie has been revealed. Running with Assassin’s Creed: The Movie as (hopefully) a working title, Ubisoft Motion Pictures will be showing off more at E3 according to released promo material. Due to start filming in September, …
Read More »Assassins Creed Syndicate wont have totally random side quests this time
When it comes to the side-missions of Assassin’s Creed, well, they can be a mixed bag at best. From eavesdropping and fetch quests to solving murders on the streets of Paris, each year’s Creed has come with some memorable (and downright frustrating) extras, but the same old templates have certainly …
Read More »Edge 281: How Deus Ex Mankind Divided is rebuilding the action RPG
We expect a certain bluster from developers like Eidos Montreal working on games like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, star of the cover of the latest issue of Edge, available now in print, on iPad, Google Play and Zinio (opens in new tab). You’d certainly understand it in this instance: here …
Read More »Legwork and legacies, day jobs and destinies in Shenmue
Making games is a business: an audience-dissecting, number-crunching business. One of Shenmue’s great victories, despite its drawn-out development and expenses more intimidating than its hero’s fixation with sailors, was that it never felt like the product of stats and suits. It felt like an unflinching, near-suicidal labour of love, and …
Read More »15 underrated sci-fi movie sequels
Second chance sci-fi Sequels. Love em or hate em, theres no getting around them. Where theres a sizeable box office taking, there shall be a sequel! And one such genre that spawns future instalments like theyre going out of fashion is science-fiction. From lo-fi indies to mega-blockbusters with budgets that …
Read More »Next weeks GTA Online update adds gaudy ways to spend your Heist cash
GTA Online (opens in new tab) players will learn the true meaning of “conspicuous consumption” with Ill-Gotten Gains Part 1 next week. Rockstar has revealed a gaggle of the new clothes, guns, and rides headed to GTA 5 (opens in new tab)’s multiplayer counterpart in its latest expansion across all …
Read More »XCOM 2 announced for PC. Definitely not Bioshock then
That new game Take Two was teasing has been revealed (opens in new tab) as XCOM 2, a sequel to Enemy Unknown. An early mention of splicing had many (okay me) hoping it might be a new Bioshock (opens in new tab)when it was first shown, via a mysterious website …
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