If you offer folks a high-end version of an everyday gaming object, a whole bunch of them will take you up on it – even if that means paying a significant premium. Xbox boss Phil Spencer shared a celebratory Tweet for the 1 millionth Xbox One Elite Controller manufactured today, …

What is it? An anime-style bartending simulator where you get to know a colorful cast of characters while mixing Piano Man cocktails in a cyberpunk dystopia  Play it if you like… Narrative-led games, fantasising about life as a bartender, Hideo Kojima’s Snatcher Format: PC/Vita Price: $14.99/£10.99 Release date: PC: Out …

Four Mass Effect Andromeda (opens in new tab) novelisations are on the way promising to be canonical to the main game and “answer the many questions fans have been asking”. The first book will be out in August and is called either Initiative or Initiation depending on whether you believe …

Out on Friday 1 July An action-comedy that uses its Hart and Johnson. Elisabeth Moss astounds in a psychological thriller. A doc that uses audio to visualise blindness. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Central Intelligence, Queen of Earth, Notes …

We’ve finally got some solid details about the new Star Trek TV show (opens in new tab) beyond a logo, and they sound very promising for old-school fans. Showrunner Bryan Fuller (best known for heading up the well-received Hannibal series) gave Collider (opens in new tab) a rundown of the …

If you’re still dissecting the God of War reveal trailer (opens in new tab) for details and insights (we certainly are (opens in new tab)) then Sony has a handy new video for you. Combat designer Mihir Sheth and gameplay engineering lead Jeet Shroff from Sony Santa Monica Studio have …

GTA Online (opens in new tab)’s latest Adversary Mode finally abandons all pretext of realism in favor of raw, arcadey carnage. It’s about damn time, too. The Power Play mode sets two teams against in each other across three maps, where their trigger fingers are secondary to their power-up collecting …

As you may have noticed from that woman telling you to “open your eyes” in the E3 trailer (opens in new tab) for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab), it will be the first Zelda game to feature voice acting – voice acting beyond …

Whether you unlock them by show of skill or microtransaction, golden guns have become a staple of online shooters. Blizzard has decided on the former option for Overwatch (opens in new tab): the only way to get special golden guns for all your favorite heroes will be to take names …

Where do you stand on ‘perfection’? If I told you this episode of Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) was perfect, what would that mean? Obviously, I don’t mean it’s free from all mistakes, or inconsistencies, or that certain scenes couldn’t be improved for certain parts of the audience. …