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WARNING: WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE ENDING SO THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. There’s no doubt that MGS 5 is an excellent game but the odd pacing and strange ending led many to argue that it was ultimately unfinished – with the ongoing disintegration of Kojima and Konami’s relationship (opens in new …

Peer hard enough at the obscured walls and hidden alcoves of AC2, and with enough luck you’ll find the ‘glyphs’ scattered around AC2’s digital vision of Renaissance Italy, esoteric puzzles that slowly reveal the ‘true’ history of the world, one ridiculous conspiracy theory after another. As ludicrous as the whole …

In creating amiibo (opens in new tab), Nintendo hit the emphatic fan (emfantic?) jackpot, with Nintendo devotees going to sometimes extreme lengths (opens in new tab) to to get their twitchy, grabby hands on these plastic idols to their favorite classic characters. But in addition to looking great and being …

Lots of game developers have old prototypes sitting in their utility closets. Far fewer are willing to dust one off, solder some dev kit cables to a streaming setup, and broadcast the buggy old thing on Twitch. Volition is an exception, and next week we’ll get the rare treat of …

It looks like Assassin’s Creed is taking a year out for a reboot, then. Okay, it hasn’t officially been confirmed, but in this industry there’s little stronger confirmation than a lack of corporate denial after a week or two of leak-driven rumours. Having delivered annual installments since 2009 – with …

Let’s pretend for a moment that I’m the most important person in your life. Well, remember when I said that Crackdown 3 is basically two games (opens in new tab)? I was more right than I, you, or my adoring, lucky parents could have known, because it looks as though …

Yesterday we finally saw the last bit of Batman Arkham Knight DLC (opens in new tab)arrive, ending the sorry drawn out smattering of skins, racetracks, and 20 minute challenge rooms dressed up as story, that ran as Bat’s season pass. It’s not been great but at least there’s something shiny …

Devil’s Third shouldn’t exist. Six years in development, bounced between three publishers, and shifting between four different engines in the process, the first game from notorious developer Tomonobu Itagaki since Ninja Gaiden 2 finally came to Nintendo Wii U this past week. Was it worth the wait? That’s a complicated …

Warning: Story spoilers below Croteam is a small, independent studio best known for a series of games called Serious Sam; first-person shooters that harken back to a simpler era of games, where all you needed were big guns, bigger explosions, and headless goons that charge screaming at you full bore …

Just Cause 3 (opens in new tab) has some performance and loading issues (opens in new tab) across all platforms, which really interferes with its spontaneous chaos vibe. But your wingsuit buzz should be un-harshened by “significantly improved loading times” after installing Just Cause 3’s first big update, according to …