The blocky world builder has taken its time coming to Nintendo but Minecraft (opens in new tab) will finally be available on Wii U from December 12th. Announced on Mojang’s Blog (opens in new tab), the game will be available on the Nintendo eShop and come with multiple content packs. …
Read More »Wilds untamed open world wants to be a whole new kind of adventure
Michel Ancel has some interesting ambitions for Wild on PS4. He want to create an open world game without anything as mundane as ‘an end goal’, ditching even obvious touch points like mission markers and maps. Instead he want to create a place for players to explore and find their …
Read More »Zelda music hits the big time on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
If you told me that an orchestra was going to perform Zelda music on The Late Show back when I was first playing A Link to the Past, I probably would have asked “What’s The Late Show?” Because I was five. But after you’d explained to me that The Late …
Read More »Disney Infinity 3.0 review
There’s a real temptation to don my cynical hat while booting up Disney’s latest contender in the behemoth toys-to-life genre. Its opening sequence (read: glorified advert), in particular, raises an eyebrow – highlighting game worlds you can’t access without shelling out for more playsets and figures. And yet, it’s hard …
Read More »Heres the ant sim you never knew you needed to play
It really is a bug’s life for this Ludum Dare success story from last year. After much lauding of the original 48 hour version, devs Eteeski (opens in new tab) decided to make a full game of Ant Simulator and it looks kind of amazing. Complete with first person (ant?) …
Read More »Finally! A way to take your dog with you when you play VR
And here we were scared of VR being lonely. Devs StressLevelZero have created a way you can take your trusty canine into VR worlds with you and the result is pretty incredible. Not to mention disturbing when you see a furry pooch be effortlessly transformed into an armoured spiky worm …
Read More »Everybodys Gone to the Rapture review
There is a run button in The Chinese Room’s cerebral Shropshire-based exploratory story. You won’t need it. The idea here is that you’ll take the time to drink in the world you’re exploring, actively reading the clues ushering you towards always-tempting answers. How did the quaint English village of Yaughton …
Read More »Fallout 4 is about “freedom”, not being the “best looking game,” says Bethesda
You can always count on the ‘how many graphics?’ crowd to have something to say about a game’s look. Personally, I was quite pleased with Fallout 4’s crisp and colourful new visuals (opens in new tab), although that hasn’t stopped some from having a pop at the finer details. Not …
Read More »COD in space? “Never say never” according to Treyarch (but dont get your hopes up)
Given that COD’s been racing into the future with every game since Modern Warfare, it’s not that much of a reach to predict it will, at some point, go ‘full Halo’ and shoot for the moon. Literally. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your feelings towards the galaxy) Black Ops 3 …
Read More »Orphan looks like Limbo meets aliens but is so much more
The end of the world is nigh. Again. Humanity is under attack once more, and unfortunately Orphan doesn’t put you in the boots of a muscular gunman, or even a wise-cracking idiot with a baseball bat. Instead you’re tasked with looking after a young boy who might just be the …
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