Surprise! Among a number of other announcements at the latest Nintendo Direct, you’re also getting something you can play right now – a wonderful single level slice of the upcoming Switch title, Yoshi’s Crafted World. The game, which exists almost as an evolution of Yoshi’s Woolly World that released on …
Read More »Assassins Creed Odyssey gets New Game +, a higher level cap, new mercenaries and more
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (opens in new tab) isn’t getting you Valentines flowers for February. Instead it’s bringing a New Game+ mode, the sixth episode of its free DLC The Lost Tales of Greece, a higher level cap, and some fiddly fixes. To access the New Game+ mode, you need to …
Read More »“We’re definitely not done with Mass Effect” promises BioWare
With all the fuss over Anthem, and the ugly stepchild that was Mass Effect: Andromeda (opens in new tab), some of us BioWare fans were afeared we would never get the chance to save the universe – or bang a Krogan – ever again. All is not lost though, as …
Read More »The Kid Who Would be King review: “A fun family adventure”
It’s been a rough few years for apocryphal English folk heroes: last year’s Robin Hood missed the mark, while Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur (opens in new tab) was a costly flop. Both films failed by sticking modern sensibilities onto anachronistic period settings. The Kid Who Would be King flips this …
Read More »All the BAFTA 2019 winners as Black Panther and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse take home awards
Award season is well and truly in full swing. But, as the roll-call of BAFTA 2019 winners will attest, it’s not the same old Oscar-bait movies taking home the gongs in what is traditionally the last big stop before the Academy Awards. Instead, we got the female-led love story of …
Read More »Release Radar: Our pick of the weeks best TV, movies and games (February 11-17)
1. Apex Legends proves there always room for more battle royale Surprise! Respawn launched a brand new battle royale game, Apex Legends (opens in new tab), on Monday, after keeping it a secret for years and only letting press and streamers see it last week. If they were nervous about …
Read More »Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is using James Gunn’s script – but it sounds like he definitely isn’t returning to direct
He may not return to direct Guardians of the Galaxy 3 – he was fired last year due to some questionable tweets from 2008 – but James Gunn’s presence will still be keenly felt in the cosmic threequel. That’s because, as Chris Pratt confirms, his script is still attached to …
Read More »Could the PS5 be released before April 2020? Its “technically possible”, says analyst
According to an analyst, we could be playing PS5 games before April next year. A brand new report from Bloomberg (opens in new tab) has surfaced indicating a decline in profits for Sony Interactive Entertainment, best known as the company’s PlayStation division. But the most interesting part of the story …
Read More »“Halo meets James Camerons Avatar” – Twitter reacts to the Anthem demo
The Anthem (opens in new tab) game public demo took place over the weekend and, uh, it was certainly a thing that happened. Even after (mostly) sorting out its server troubles, BioWare’s open world PVE shooter left a lot to be desired from those who managed to get in and …
Read More »Anthem was almost free-to-play but BioWare found a better model
Things could’ve worked out pretty differently for BioWare’s Anthem (opens in new tab) game. It’s set to launch on February 22 as a full-priced, triple-A product – the sort that you’d expect from one of the biggest and most influential studios in the world. But Anthem is, in many ways, …
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