It’s taken Sony 10 months to outline an upgrade path between PS4 and PS5 with any clarity or consistency. The platform holder has confirmed that, moving forward, it will now charge $10 to upgrade from PS4 to PS5 editions of first-party exclusive cross-gen titles, a shift from the scattershot approach …
Read More »Destiny 2: The Witch Queen will give players end-game content theyve wanted for years
Bungie’s big Destiny 2: The Witch Queen showcase was so jam-packed that announcements which would normally dominate community discussion for days were drowned out by the sheer roar of the hype. In-between Savathun building her own Guardians and Bungie reveling in 30 years of history, we heard a lot of …
Read More »Lost in Random is a card-powered action adventure with an offbeat sense of humor
The two heroes of Lost in Random are Even, a young girl trying to rescue her older sister Odd, and Dicey, a living six-sided die who is supposed to be dead. Dice have the power to shape people’s fate, and the same Evil Queen who stole away Odd has worked …
Read More »Far Cry 6 is another great chaos simulator cherry picking the series best bits
Thank God Ubisoft admitted that Far Cry 6 is political. Within moments of starting, police are rounding up and abusing people for being ‘fake’ and oh my Christ how is this more symbolic of America than the game they actually set in America. The game itself is really enjoyable, yes, …
Read More »Everything Announced at the Future Games Show Powered by AMD at Gamescom
The Future Games Show Powered by AMD at Gamescom has been and gone, but if you weren’t watching it live across one of GamesRadar’s social channels on August 26, then we’ve put together a handy little article detailing everything that you missed from the event. Here’s a run-through of all …
Read More »Phantom Abyss mixes tomb raiding with Apex Legends-inspired movement
Ben Marrinan was confident he’d hit upon a good idea when he came up with the concept behind Phantom Abyss in 2018. The success of its early access incarnation, then, cannot have been too great a shock. Yet watching players has proved a fascinating insight into human behaviour for Marrinan …
Read More »Cloud Gaming on Xbox Series X is all about “optimizing space and saving you time”
Microsoft is attempting to circumvent some of the most frustrating barriers to play in the modern era: lengthy download times and limited hard drive space. Announced as part of the Xbox Gamescom 2021 showcase, Cloud Gaming is coming to Xbox Series X and Xbox One this holiday, a move that …
Read More »Best Flash stories of all time
Barry Allen, the Silver Age Flash, has become one of DC’s most popular heroes thanks in large part to his long-running (get it?) CW show and his key role in the Justice League movie. Now, Barry Allen is getting his own movie based on the story Flashpoint, which will dig …
Read More »Censor: The return of the video nasty
“Ban video sadism now!” screamed the cover of the Daily Mail in July 1983, at the height of the furor over so-called “video nasties”. With home video in its early days, not subject to any official control, enterprising independent labels coined it in distributing low-budget horror films using the twin …
Read More »The best Rick and Morty episodes, ranked!
Rick and Morty has already imprinted itself on pop culture’s collective consciousness. You seemingly can’t move for people getting schwifty, talking about szechuan sauce, or being decked out in Pickle Rick merch. It stands to reason, then, that the best Rick and Morty episodes would be similarly memorable… and you’d …
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