It’s time to return to the Wasteland! Or, more precisely, it’s time to leave the Wasteland. In the new Fallout 4 DLC, a fresh case for Valentine’s Detective Agency sends you off to find a bright young woman who has disappeared from home. The mission takes you to an island …
Read More »Cannes 2016: The Dardenne Brothers chase another Palme dOr with The Unknown Girl
With their socially aware, grounded, forceful dramas, the Dardenne brothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc) are modern cinema’s conscience. In their 10th film, The Unknown Girl, conscience is the theme, with several players tormented by guilt into doing the right thing. Being the Dardennes, who like to keep things small and focused, …
Read More »God bless the rip-offs and copycats of the video game world
Earlier this month, I downloaded and played through the Nioh demo from Team Ninja. As many people on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other social media have noticed, the game bears a striking similarity to the Dark Souls (opens in new tab) series. There are obvious differences, of course: Nioh’s setting …
Read More »Battlefield 1 goes back to WW1… and feels like the most modern shooter of this generation
Battlefield is going back to World War 1. While Call of Duty (opens in new tab) forges ever further into the future; into space; into the supernatural, Battlefield is going back to where modern warfare began. The result – from this first viewing – is something more analogue, more personal, …
Read More »The 10 most extreme reactions to this week’s Game of Thrones episode (SPOILERS)
Warning: This feature contains major spoilers for Game of Thrones season 6 episode 2. If you haven’t seen it yet, please turn away now because we don’t want to spoil it for you. If you’ve already seen the second episode of Game of Thrones season 6 (opens in new tab), …
Read More »8 ways to make Spider-Man: Homecoming good
You’d almost forget that Spider-Man wasn’t the hero of Captain America: Civil War, (opens in new tab) given all the fuss people have made about him. He’s the breakout star of the movie and according to the reviews, rightly so. All that love doesn’t mean the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming (opens …
Read More »Killing Floor 2 on PS4 is a grand old co-op zombie-bashing time
By Marshall Lemon Zombies are everywhere in video games these days, but that doesn’t make fighting them any less fun. Yes, it’s a little cliched at this point, but it’s simply thrilling to face down infected hordes, rush to secure key locations, and keep enemies at bay while your ammunition …
Read More »How Nintendo took the world by storm then blew it
The constant allure of Nintendo is you never know what you’re going to get. The mysterious NX will be revealed later this year, ahead of a March 2017 release (opens in new tab), but Nintendo is in a precarious position. The Wii U has failed to capture public interest to …
Read More »Dear Titanfall 2: Please let me bedazzle the hell out of my Titan
I adored Titanfall when it came out; it was fresh, fast-paced, and finally clued me into why so many people are obsessed over mechs. Seriously, I never understood the whole gundam thing until I punched a Titan until it exploded. Then all became clear. My enjoyment of the game eventually …
Read More »Stalling the NX to 2017 and skipping E3 is the smartest thing Nintendo has done in years
No NX (opens in new tab) until March 2017. No NX at E3 2016. Zelda officially bumped to an (eventual) NX release, which will very probably lead to the Wii U version to being a 2017 release as well. Doom. Such doom, and additional gloom, and fair old dash of …
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