Get ready for broken barrels, teleporting rocks and every national stereotype you can fit on to a 2D background. We present 14 perfect, far-flung locations from the Street Fighter series – it’s called World Warrior for a reason. Las Vegas, USA – Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior Balrog’s Las …
Read More »Exploring the wide world of wrestling with the WWE 2K series
While many see wrestling as loud Americans shouting at each other in their underpants, the first ‘W’ in ‘WWE’ stands for ‘World’, and it’s more global than you know. Following the arrival of the latest instalment, WWE 2K17, we go around the world in 80 graze. Canada – Hart House, …
Read More »Battlezone is getting a rad free 80s mode, new campaign, and customisation options
Rebooted arcade classic Battlezone – (opens in new tab)one of our best PS VR games (opens in new tab) – is going back to its roots with a new ‘Classic’ mode that recreates the original game’s neon green wireframes. Its so 80’s you can only play it if you look …
Read More »Prey is the evolution of Dishonored, and the sequel BioShock always deserved (but never got)
BioShock never realised its full potential. It couldn’t, not even with two, entirely different sequels. The reason, ironically, is that BioShock nailed it the first time. It’s one of those rare games that delivered everything it could be – contemporarily at least – in an utterly complete form, in terms …
Read More »Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is free this weekend: play the campaign, multiplayer and zombies for 5 days
It seems like free weekends are fast becoming the new demo disc. Just within the past month we had free weekends for Titanfall 2 (opens in new tab) and The Elder Scrolls Online (opens in new tab). Now Activision is joining the trend with a free weekend for Call of …
Read More »Rocket League goes into space with new Starbase ARC update
Bet you, like GR+, figured that after expanding from football to basketball and hockey, there wasn’t anywhere else for Rocket League (opens in new tab) to go. Well, everyone figured wrong. Because it’s now headed to… outer space. No, this isn’t April 1st. A new update (opens in new tab) …
Read More »Battlefield 1 Giants Shadow DLC release date
Battlefield 1 (opens in new tab)’s 10th multiplayer map will be released to the world (war) as free DLC on December 20. EA and DICE published a brief teaser trailer for Giant’s Shadow to illustrate the announcement; on top of a new environment inspired by the Battle of the Selle, …
Read More »A four hour demo of Resident Evil 7 is one of the best things I’ve played this year
Horror games should make you feel scared. And Resident Evil 7 (opens in new tab) does ‘scared’ very well. I jumped a lot, flat out screamed a few times and, when playing in VR, flailed uselessly at the air under my chin as a mutilated, regenerating corpse lifted me up …
Read More »With a few quiet tweaks and one loud bang, Mass Effect 2 sent the series core appeal into supernova
The Mass Effect series helped define the previous console generation. It was a third-person cover shooter, for one thing, which is as close to the Xbox 360 heartland as you can get this side of Don Mattrick’s Kinect-packed basement. It also set a new high bar for storytelling and cinematic …
Read More »Get any Xbox One S 1TB bundle for $50 off, heres how to get a bonus game too
Want to get your first Xbox One, or maybe just give your internal storage a little more room to breathe? All Xbox One S and Xbox One systems with 1TB of storage are $50 off from now through Wednesday, dropping the standard price of tempting deals like that Battlefield 1 …
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