Where many open-world action games are akin to sandboxes, Hitman: Blood Money is perhaps best viewed as a series of toy boxes. Each level is relatively small in scale, its parameters easily defined, but the possibilities for inventive play are numerous. The game offers several testing grounds for crazy assassination …

Danny Boyle has revealed that a Trainspotting sequel is still very much on the cards, with the director telling Deadline (opens in new tab) that the project is next up on his to-do list. What’s more, the script is apparently already in good shape, with the core cast of the …

GTA Online (opens in new tab) is celebrating the American labor movement this holiday weekend in its own special way: with four days of revolving vehicle discounts and Job bonuses. Here’s the complete list – all events indicated will award double GTA$/RP payouts, while all (virtual) retailers indicated will have …

Steven Spielberg knows a thing or two about blockbuster movies, which is why – when the director predicted a Hollywood ‘implosion’ a couple of years ago -everybody listened. Well, those same ears will be pricking up once more, because Spielberg has been talking to the Associated Press about superhero movies, …

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is unlike any Metal Gear game before it. You can deploy whenever and wherever you want, you can invade other players’ Forward Operating Bases (when the servers are working (opens in new tab)), and you can even go cardboarding …

If you got Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (opens in new tab) on Xbox One, you might have noticed its one glaring omission. Gearbox justified leaving the original Borderlands out because it didn’t have an appearance from Handsome Jack (who is a central character in Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel), …

Bungie is making it much easier to earn Faction Reputation for Dead Orbit, Future War Cult, and New Monarchy when The Taken King (opens in new tab) arrives. In Destiny’s first year, players needed to wear a respective class item in order to earn Faction Reputation. These Titan Marks, Warlock …

Like most nations in the real world, Skyrim (opens in new tab) is anything but homogenous. It has no one definitive landscape or city. It’s a sum of disparate parts stitched together into a rich geographical tapestry. While the concept of variety in most open-world games translates into a series …

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes’ complete lack of cardboard boxes was concerning, but it turns out they were just back at the shop for some upgrades. At some point in the nine years between Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab), box …

It takes a very special character to hold their own against tech-suited playboys, Norse storm gods, lethal uber-assassins and, yes, enormous green rage monsters. Face it, that’s the kind of camera-hogging company even Tom Cruise would think twice about sharing screen time with… This year’s Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Age Of …