We might be at the end of 2018 now, but let’s not forget how good a year 2017 was for games. Not only did we get the Nintendo Switch (opens in new tab) and the Xbox One X (opens in new tab), but we also got some utterly fantastic games …
Read More »Greatness from small beginnings: The inside story of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
“It’s a little-known fact that Nolan’s been in every video game released since Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.” Richard Lemarchand, former lead game designer at Naughty Dog, is teasing the smooth, smart-mouthed star of the Uncharted series, Nolan North, for also being the star of many others. North is joining in: “I’m …
Read More »Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt – How the V&A design museum successfully built a video game exhibition
Making a museum exhibition, it turns out, can be a lot like making a video game. That’s certainly been the case with Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt (opens in new tab). Showing at the Victoria And Albert Museum in London from now until February 24, 2019 and headed up by Design, Architecture and …
Read More »2 years on from launch, and Paladins has proven itself to be much more than just an Overwatch clone
I don’t think I’ve ever heard an audience cheer so loudly for an announcement so unremarkable, but the crowd at Hi-Rez Expo are clearly excited. As part of its Hi-Rez Presents briefing, Paladins studio Evil Mojo has just announced that full cross-play and cross-progression is coming to the hero shooter …
Read More »Fallout 76’s photo mode loading screens are a little moment of memory making brilliance
It’s pretty much standard issue for games to come with a photo mode these days, and Fallout 76 (opens in new tab) isn’t any different. It does however have a lovely little twist I’ve discovered in the Fallout 76 beta where the pictures you take are quietly slipped into your …
Read More »Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ending explained – everything you need to know after watching
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (opens in new tab) has been on Netflix for a whole week now so if you’ve haven’t finished it yet, you’ve no excuse. Get watching! If you have seen the shocking Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ending then you know it leaves us with many, many questions …
Read More »The 10 best Halloween Easter eggs and references that pay tribute to the original
The new Halloween (opens in new tab) movie strips away decades worth of horror canon from every film in the franchise past the first one, but you only need to watch a few minutes to see it still has plenty of reverence for what came before. Michael Myers’ latest return …
Read More »Why are 97% of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players overlooking this outrageous mode?
“No one gives a f*ck about you.” That’s the opening line for one of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (opens in new tab)’s prestige cinematic trailers, uttered by Donnie ‘Ruin’ Walsh. If you haven’t already sprinted a mile in his boots, Ruin is one of the ten Specialist characters …
Read More »Fallout 76’s online world is the perfect way to explore its prequel setting and tell a fresh story
I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the Fallout 76 beta this much. I mean, I thought I’d like it, but I wasn’t expecting a weird feeling of almost childlike wonder to well up as the Appalachian mountains unfolded before me. More than ever before in the series I felt a very …
Read More »The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina showrunner talks channelling The Exorcist, why its not Buffy, and our fascination with witches
Being a teenage girl can feel like hell on earth. Unless you’re pretty and popular, it’s a nightmare of insecurities, trying to make new friends, getting good grades and surviving mortifying crushes. But imagine how much worse it would be if you had to live between two worlds as a …
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