Tag Archives: Action

World of Tanks adds free moon combat mode

Look at the Moon. So haughty and superior up there, thinking it’s safe from human aggression. Well I tell you what, Moon, we already stuck a flag in you, and now the console version of World of Tanks (opens in new tab) aims to add a few new craters to …

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Assassins Creed Chronicles gets all the best locations

Well, would you look at that? More Assassins! Announced last year as part of Assassin’s Creed Unity’s canned season pass, it turns out that Assassin’s Creed Chronicles China is now only the first in a trilogy of 2.5D side-scrolling stabbing. As three standalone episodes released this year, Chronicles will travel …

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Batmans T-rating has been holding him back

Everyone knows Batman doesn’t kill people. It’s part of what makes him a shining beacon in the darkness of Gotham City. The problem is that everyone else around him is fucking unhinged. The menagerie of super-villains and psychopaths that haunt the city aren’t afraid to use the people that Batman …

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Gore and swears land Batman: Arkham Knight an M rating

We already knew Rocksteady was upping the game when we found out last month that Batman: Arkham Knight (opens in new tab) had been rated Mature by US ratings board the ESRB (opens in new tab), but now we know why. While the third in the Rocksteady trilogy still contains …

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Ori and the Blind Forest is almost out of the woods

“Even now, after four years of development, I find myself playing Ori almost every day and still enjoy it so much.” Show-off. The rest of us have had to put up with a lengthy delay to Moon Studios’ console-exclusive debut. But, as director Thomas Mahler explains, Ori’s entire existence can …

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9 most awkward video game love triangles

Love stinks I believe it was the great American poet J. Geils who once said: “You love her / And she loves him / And he loves somebody else / You just can’t win.” Yep, ever since humans have figured out what to do with their dangly bits, they’ve been …

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New Condemned could happen if indies take the lead

Are you still waiting for a third Condemned game almost seven years later? It looks like franchise co-creator Jace Hall, who owns the rights, doesn’t intend to pick the series back up any time soon… so he wants to give it to someone else to work on, instead. Hall wrote …

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Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire review

The Pokemon formula is a classic: collect monsters, shove them in your pockets, fight everyone you make eye contact with. There’s always the same number of Gym badges to collect (eight FYI, though you probably knew that already) and there’s always an evil organisation or two to topple in the …

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