September, 2015

• 7 September

  Danny Boyle planning Trainspotting sequel

  

  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 …

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• 7 September

  Hitmans most memorable mission

  

  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 …

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• 7 September

  Heres the ant sim you never knew you needed to play

  

  It really is a bug’s life for this Ludum Dare success story from last year. After much lauding of the original 48 hour version, devs Eteeski (opens in new tab) decided to make a full game of Ant Simulator and it looks kind of amazing. Complete with first person (ant?) …

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• 4 September

  GTA Online Labor Day weekend event has cheap rides and better payouts

  

  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 …

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• 3 September

  Why Skyrims most barren environment makes for a bountiful world

  

  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 …

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• 3 September

  How to earn Faction Reputation in Destiny

  

  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 …

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• 3 September

  All the Borderlands games are about to be backwards compatible on Xbox One

  

  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), …

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• 3 September

  Kojimas best tip for playing MGS5: take a break

  

  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 …

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• 3 September

  Good morning! Spielberg predicts the death of superhero movies

  

  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, …

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• 2 September

  Exclusive Age Of Ultron clip: creating the Vision

  

  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 …

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