Pokken Tournament is just the beginning Did you hear the news about Pokken Tournament? If not, get ready to have your mind blown by the concept of a Tekken game that replaces the cast with the toughest Pokemon imaginable. The game, currently only announced for Japanese arcades in 2015, is …
Read More »Is it just me?… or are The Matrix sequels just as good as the first film?
In our regular polarising-opinion series, Total Film writer Matt Looker asks, is it just me? … or are The Matrix sequels just as good as the first film? “I love The Matrix . The first one, obviously – not the sequels.” It’s a distinction I’ve heard so many times that …
Read More »Relive bittersweet memories of To the Moon with this music box
Remember To The Moon (opens in new tab)? One of the saddest video games ever (opens in new tab)? Now that Freebird Games is releasing A Bird Story (opens in new tab) in November, I was just thinking to myself that I should go back and play To the Moon …
Read More »Total Film becomes Spider-Man (kinda)
When you think of The Amazing Spider-Man , you think of one place and one place only. Because of all the countless globe-trotting adventures Spider-Man has web-slung his way around, New York is his spiritual home. So when Total Film was contacted and told we’d be sent off on a …
Read More »The Total Film FrightFest 2014 Awards
Moving to the Vue West End and now occupying five screens, Film4FrightFest 2014 was bigger and better than ever before: 64 films to choose from, ranging from the staple sub-genres (vampires, ghosts, zombies, monsters, serial killers, occult, etc.) to fascinating, rule-bending fare occupying the outermost peripheries and darkest corners of …
Read More »How Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is using casino psychology to keep you playing
Understandably, Activision and Sledgehammer Games want you to play Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (opens in new tab). But not just a little bit. They want you to play it, and play it, and play it. But why leave the realisation of that dream to such ambiguous factors as ‘how …
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Read More »42 games you might have missed from Gamescom 2014
A treasure trove of gaming riches You probably heard all about the great big-name announcements that came out of Sony and Microsoft’s Gamescom press conferences. The Bloodbornes and Halos, the Uncharteds and the Tomb Raiders–great stuff, all of it. But both conferences contained lots of equally interesting games from smaller …
Read More »The Dark Knight meets his nemesis in new Batman: Arkham Knight gameplay
The Batman: Arkham Knight (opens in new tab) demo at Gamescom 2014 is amazing. I’ve just tumbled out of it. Here’s how it goes down… The scene begins with police and Commissioner Gordon standing on a bridge outside the ACE Chemicals Plant. Batman arrives on the scene to hear that …
Read More »10 unintentionally creepy characters in perfectly normal games
Do the creep It’s happened to all of us at some point. You pick up the latest E-rated mascot platformer and get ready to settle in for some family-friendly fun–and suddenly you jump out of your chair in disbelief as you stare at the monstrosity before you. This isn’t a …
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