August, 2015

• 12 August

  The LEGO Batman movie has found its Joker

  

  The first Lego movie spinoff has gained another actor who’s now poised to enter the vocal booth, with THR reporting that Zach Galifianakis is in the final stages of negotiations for the Lego Batman movie. Should he wrangle a deal with Warner Bros., The Hangover comedian is on track to …

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• 11 August

  WWE 2K16 wrestlers include Steve Austin, John Cena and … Marvels Carnage?

  

  2K Sports has given fans a first glimpse at the WWE 2K16 roster this month, and today they’ve released the first in a series of weekly character announcements leading up to the game’s release date of October 27. And what an eclectic bunch it is. The full list of superstars …

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• 10 August

  Everybodys Gone to the Rapture review

  

  There is a run button in The Chinese Room’s cerebral Shropshire-based exploratory story. You won’t need it. The idea here is that you’ll take the time to drink in the world you’re exploring, actively reading the clues ushering you towards always-tempting answers. How did the quaint English village of Yaughton …

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• 10 August

  I dont want to save the world, I just want to sit in my underwear

  

  We really shouldn’t be surprised that our generation are constantly berated for being the selfish ones, obsessed with instant gratification and more vain than that guy who probably thought that song was about him: we’ve grown up around games that are forever placing us in the shoes of The Most …

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• 9 August

  Hololens will play better with small rooms than Kinect did

  

  Kinect may have failed to make an impact in either of its incarnations, but the latest hardware tech from Microsoft is determined to learn from the horrors of the past. HoloLens, the holographic software that projects an interactive 3D image through a headset into the world around you is already …

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• 7 August

  Rise of the Tomb Raider mixes old-school archaeology with wince-inducing death

  

  You know that moment when you finished the last Tomb Raider and realized that raiding tombs just wasn’t really a core concern anymore? Crystal Dynamics’ new approach led them to some exciting new areas – Resi 4-indebted over-the-shoulder gunplay, set-piece heavy virtual cinema and Japanese demonology – but those areas …

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• 7 August

  Carrying multiplayer profiles from one COD to the next has “come up a lot”

  

  In an interesting conversation about where games are going and changing expectations, Black Ops 3’s design director David Vondahar has talked about the idea of a persistent profile carried from one COD to the next. It’s apparently an idea that’s “come up a lot” but realistically sounds unworkable without some …

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• 6 August

  Gollancz Festival 2015 line-ups revealed

  

  SF and fantasy imprint Gollancz have released more details of the Gollancz Festival 2015 – for which tickets are now on sale. SFX and Gamesradar+ are supporting the festival, which encompasses both physical events in London and Manchester between 15 and 18 October, and a slate of online events. The …

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• 6 August

  Fantastic Four review

  

  It’s yawning time. It all looked so good for Josh Trank a few months ago. A cult superhero flick to his name in 2012’s Chronicle. A major-league Marvel movie in the can. And a Star Wars spin-off in the offing. And then came the mysterious departure from Star Wars and …

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• 6 August

  Crackdown 3 effectively turns your Xbox One into the most powerful console ever made

  

  So, Crackdown 3 (opens in new tab) might be the most impressive demo I’ve ever seen. We’ll have a full preview up later today, but suffice it to say that all that bluster about “leveraging the Cloud” to bring hitherto unseen levels of physics-based destruction is totally accurate. That moment …

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