Fast Facts Star Wars Battlefront 2 release date: November 17, 2017 Formats: PS4, Xbox One, PC Developer: DICE, Criterion, Motive Price: $59.99 / £59.99 Well, you can’t accuse EA of ignoring feedback. Star Wars Battlefront 2 addresses almost all the key criticisms of the original game: the sequel spans all …
Read More »A Way Out – the new prison break game – is revolutionizing co-op play. But are we truly ready for it?
Amongst a relatively light slate of announcements during EA Play (the company’s E3 press conference equivalent) was one big, notable surprise. Coming from the creator of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out (opens in new tab) is the story of a pair of convicts working together to …
Read More »The 10 most painfully uncomfortable moments from past E3 press conferences *cringe*
For the most part, E3 press-conferences are crowd pleasing carnivals of great spectacle and grandeur, packed with memorable moments designed to surprise and entertain with the production value of a broadway show. They are also, however, public events streamed live to every corner of the globe; a feat of technical …
Read More »An ancient Egyptian Assassins Creed cant just be business as usual
Assassin’s Creed just loves flicking through the history books and stabbing a hidden blade where it wants to stop off for some free running. As is now apparent by the slews of leaks for Assassin’s Creed Origins (opens in new tab)- oh look, here’s our brand new Assassin hero, …
Read More »The 15 best blades on Xbox
Whether you’re a ninja, fighter, or adventurer, a blade is often the weapon of choice when you need to get your job done. However, you can forget simple swords – this list has everything you could want, from gravity-bothering glaives to guitars that turn into scythes. If it’s sharp, shiny …
Read More »Why Wonder Womans finale is the best (and worst) thing about the movie
Rarely has a movie’s final showdown left me so torn as Wonder Woman (opens in new tab)’s. How can something be simultaneously perfect and terrible, impressively bold and yet predictable? It somehow both lifts and lets down what has come before. But before we go any further – in case …
Read More »BioWares Dragon Age: Origins gave us a grand but sometimes flat fantasy world
It’s hard to believe that two months separated the first game in the Dragon Age series and the sequel to Mass Effect. They feel like RPGs from different eras: Mass Effect 2 is a modern-feeling shooter hybrid that moves away from traditional elements like lists of stats, while Dragon Age: …
Read More »The creator of iconic puzzler Myst looks back on its legend – and onwards to new game, Obduction
This interview was conducted by Official PlayStation Magazine Back in 1993, things weren’t going so well for game developers Rand and Robyn Miller. Then they released a highly ambitious project – first-person adventure title Myst – onto the Macintosh and into the wild. Everything changed. Praised by critics and gamers …
Read More »I’ve played Destiny 2: here are the 6 things you need to know (and how they change everything)
So Destiny 2 (opens in new tab) has been revealed. You’ve seen the trailers. You’ve seen the first gameplay (opens in new tab). You’ve heard the broad strokes of the new, socially-minded structure and the vastly more fleshed-out open-world planets. But there’s one thing you haven’t done. You haven’t played …
Read More »8 questions I have after watching Alien: Covenant
Alien: Covenant (opens in new tab) is out on Digital Download now, and while the movie does have some excellent moments, it’s also kind of a mess. Containing multiple revelations about what happened after Prometheus (opens in new tab), as well as a couple of big lore drops for the …
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