Watching the first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home (opens in new tab), I now understand how Aragon must have felt when Gandalf appears upon the hill at the battle of Helm’s Deep, having apparently cheated death at the hands of a very angry Balrog. Spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War …
Read More »Metro Exodus has desert driving, nightmare spiders, and a serious lack of ammo
Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a shock to me, but it’s only as I’m surrounded by lurching, beige-colored mutants that I realize just how scarce ammunition is in the post apocalyptic era. Within 20 minutes of being let out to roam the huge desert map – one of the game’s …
Read More »“We didnt know if we could make it fun” admits Crackdown 3 dev
Despite first being announced back in 2014, Crackdown 3 (opens in new tab) is finally almost here, and from an interview with Joseph Staten, senior creative director for Microsoft Global Publishing, Official Xbox Magazine has discovered that the game’s ambitious multiplayer has been the cause of its delay. This sure …
Read More »The best Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Easter eggs, references, and things you might have missed
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch has taken Netflix by storm since its release on December 27 with its choose-your-own-adventure narrative, but that’s not the only thing worth watching out for. It’s easy to miss given how involved the storyline needs you to be, but the Netflix Original is also jam-packed with Bandersnatch …
Read More »Which games did the GR+ team really play the most in 2018?
There are the big, award-winning games that you just have to play, and then there are the ones that you play late into the night, and just won’t let go no matter how many hours you give them. In the last Big Question of 2018 we found out what our …
Read More »SFX presents its top 20 TV episodes of 2018
The world’s gone crazy. Every day the news is full of the latest bizarre Brexit plot twist, or jawdropping revelation from Trump, or global warming apocalypse omens. You’d think TV scriptwriters would throw in the towel trying to keep up. Instead, TV’s new golden age of drama continued very healthily …
Read More »The best Harry Potter movies ranked from worst to wand-erful
Trying to decide what are the best Harry Potter movies is such a dangerous endeavour that one can only liken it to an unaccompanied trip into the Forbidden Forest. The good news is that we’re going to follow the spiders together, which might make it a little less terrifying, but …
Read More »The best games of 2017
We might be at the end of 2018 now, but let’s not forget how good a year 2017 was for games. Not only did we get the Nintendo Switch (opens in new tab) and the Xbox One X (opens in new tab), but we also got some utterly fantastic games …
Read More »Greatness from small beginnings: The inside story of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
“It’s a little-known fact that Nolan’s been in every video game released since Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.” Richard Lemarchand, former lead game designer at Naughty Dog, is teasing the smooth, smart-mouthed star of the Uncharted series, Nolan North, for also being the star of many others. North is joining in: “I’m …
Read More »Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt – How the V&A design museum successfully built a video game exhibition
Making a museum exhibition, it turns out, can be a lot like making a video game. That’s certainly been the case with Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt (opens in new tab). Showing at the Victoria And Albert Museum in London from now until February 24, 2019 and headed up by Design, Architecture and …
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