You know the eagle that conveniently flaps away whenever you clamber to the top of a viewpoint in Assassin’s Creed? That’s me. Except I’m not perched on some church in the middle of Florence – I’m soaring over the buildings of Paris, zipping in and out of the (weirdly deserted) …
Read More »Mass Effects Mako will actually be fun to drive… thanks to the Need for Speed team
EA’s press conference (opens in new tab) may not have revealed a ton of new info about Mass Effect: Andromeda (opens in new tab), but it offered a brief glimpse of the return of the Mako. That’s right, the bouncing, rubbery, ice skate with wheels is back. But don’t groan …
Read More »Xbox Live gets Clubs, Looking For Group, and Arena features this fall
Xbox Live will be getting three major updates this fall, designed to make the online experience for Xbox users more connected. The updates are: Clubs, Looking For Group, and Arena. Clubs are sort of like guilds hosted on Xbox Live. If you’ve got a particular group of players you regularly …
Read More »Xbox One puts its TV DVR feature “on hold” to focus on gaming experiences
Xbox One won’t be getting its DVR function for ‘Over-the-Air TV’ any time soon according to a statement Microsoft has sent to The Verge (opens in new tab). The recording ability was meant to arrive sometime this year but now it’s being put on hold with this message from Microsoft: …
Read More »Redownloading Fallout 4s Far Harbor will fix PS4 issues in the US (EU fix on the way)
If the fog of Fallout 4’s Far Harbor (opens in new tab) made your frame rate slow to flip book speed on PS4, Bethesda has released a fix but it’s not in the shape of a patch. You’ll actually have to download the full 6.5Gb add-on again. But only if …
Read More »Transformers: The Last Knight adds actual Knight Anthony Hopkins to the cast
Transformers: The Last Knight is following in the footsteps of its predecessors. Previous outings in the robo-franchise have managed to wangle some pretty prestigious actors to star alongside its towering ‘bots – Frances McDormand, Stanley Tucci and Jon Turturro to name but three. And this latest entry is looking to …
Read More »The Order 1886 devs go from steampunk werewolves to cuddly monster battles
Ready At Dawn, the developer behind the visually stunning The Order 1886 (opens in new tab), has made a drastic shift from its man-eating werewolves and Knights of the Round Table protagonists with its new game. There are monsters, but they’re the cute and cuddly kind. In Deformers, you play …
Read More »Nintendo E3 2016 press conference info
Nintendo won’t have much of a presence at E3 2016 (opens in new tab), at least compared to years past. Instead of a booth brimming with games, the upcoming (and untitled) Legend of Zelda Wii U (opens in new tab) game is slated to be the only playable game on …
Read More »Captain Marvel will probably be played by Oscar winner Brie Larson
Captain Marvel has been fan-casted and rumored to the point where it’s impossible to remember who is actually in the running. Dig deep enough into the reports and it turns out that no-one was, not Emily Blunt or Olivia Wilde or err…Sienna Miller? Until yesterday that is, when the first …
Read More »Mary Poppins 2 is officially happening, Emily Blunt confirmed to star
Rumblings about a new Mary Poppins movie started last year, with various reports suggesting Disney was keen to revive the 1964 film for modern audiences. Ah, that old chestnut. It made sense at the time, given the studio’s recent habit of rummaging through its back catalogue for timeless classics to …
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