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1. With season 4, Better Call Saul is on track to becoming as perfect a TV show as Breaking Bad When Better Call Saul was first announced as the unexpected dram-com spinoff to Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan’s dark, neo-Western masterpiece of a TV show, I had nightmare flashbacks to equally …

Ubisoft’s ‘make your own level’ Arcade game editor in Far Cry 5 (opens in new tab) has been used to make some cool things. But by far the most impressive creations are when people create something recognisably not Far Cry, like movies to whole other game franchise. The skill here …

Some consider Altered Beast to be one of the best games to emerge from a ‘golden age’ of arcade play. Others will readily decry it as an awful experience, riddled with bad mechanics, poor movement, and inconsistent combat. UK magazine ‘Mega’ included it in their top ten worst Mega Drive …

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the final game in the rebooted trilogy that refreshed the Lara Croft mythos, taking us back to her first adventures. Now Eidos Montreal studio head David Anfossi has spoken to our own Official Xbox Magazine (opens in new tab) about how the story marks …

One of the big surprises of E3 2018 was FromSoftware’s appearance at the Xbox press conference (opens in new tab), showing off new game Sekiro (opens in new tab): Shadows Die Twice. Firmly focused on action, the hero is a ninja warrior slashing and slicing his way through 16th century …

Not a lot of video games encourage their players to drink responsibly. Grand Theft Auto 5 (opens in new tab) happily lets you fly commercial jets while completely cabbaged, for Pete’s sake. But in The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep – the CRPG follow-up to 1988’s Bard’s Tale III – …

Warframe on Nintendo Switch is happening, meaning you’ll be able to play one of the best free games (opens in new tab) on the handiest console. Developer Digital Extremes announced at TennoCon 2018 that it’s working with prolific Switch port studio Panic Button (who you may remember from the surprisingly …

Ubisoft has been talking about a desire to create games that do ‘not give finite experiences’ i.e. for the game to keep going after you’ve finished it, with unlimited gameplay. “We build a strong nemesis, and the goal of the game is to kill him or free the country, we’ve …

Fortnite has ditched the Final Fight rules variant for larger team battles and gone back to 50v50. In a situation mirroring the ongoing difficulties in resurrecting Fortnite Playground mode and its promise of nigh-unlimited building, Epic Games announced earlier today that it would disable Final Fight (“the mode isn’t quite …

If you’re still fuming that playing Fortnite (opens in new tab) on PlayStation means you can’t use the same account on any other console, there’s a small ray of hope breaking through the clouds courtesy of one of Sony’s MVPs.  Shawn Layden, the genial president and CEO of Sony Interactive …