EA has announced an official partnership with Italian giants Juventus – and released some fine-looking screens of the 32-time domestic champions taken with FIFA 17 (opens in new tab)’s Frostbite engine. Gianluigi Buffon, Paul Pogba, Claudio Marchisio, Giorgio Chiellini, and Paulo Dybala are the first names to be confirmed as …
Read More »Here’s why Dead Rising 4’s dropping the timer system
I’ve always struggled with the Dead Rising series: love smashing zombies, hate missing missions because I was a couple of minutes late. Which means I’m massively up for a timer free Dead Rising 4 (opens in new tab). Speaking to GamesMaster, executive producer Bryce Cochrane explains why number 4 is …
Read More »Turns out Xbox One Elite Controllers are still doing quite well, thank you
If you offer folks a high-end version of an everyday gaming object, a whole bunch of them will take you up on it – even if that means paying a significant premium. Xbox boss Phil Spencer shared a celebratory Tweet for the 1 millionth Xbox One Elite Controller manufactured today, …
Read More »If you want the full Mass Effect Andromeda story there are four new books you’ll have to read
Four Mass Effect Andromeda (opens in new tab) novelisations are on the way promising to be canonical to the main game and “answer the many questions fans have been asking”. The first book will be out in August and is called either Initiative or Initiation depending on whether you believe …
Read More »Check out Overwatchs golden guns, coming in Competitive Mode
Whether you unlock them by show of skill or microtransaction, golden guns have become a staple of online shooters. Blizzard has decided on the former option for Overwatch (opens in new tab): the only way to get special golden guns for all your favorite heroes will be to take names …
Read More »Xbox Live gets Clubs, Looking For Group, and Arena features this fall
Xbox Live will be getting three major updates this fall, designed to make the online experience for Xbox users more connected. The updates are: Clubs, Looking For Group, and Arena. Clubs are sort of like guilds hosted on Xbox Live. If you’ve got a particular group of players you regularly …
Read More »Mass Effects Mako will actually be fun to drive… thanks to the Need for Speed team
EA’s press conference (opens in new tab) may not have revealed a ton of new info about Mass Effect: Andromeda (opens in new tab), but it offered a brief glimpse of the return of the Mako. That’s right, the bouncing, rubbery, ice skate with wheels is back. But don’t groan …
Read More »Xbox One puts its TV DVR feature “on hold” to focus on gaming experiences
Xbox One won’t be getting its DVR function for ‘Over-the-Air TV’ any time soon according to a statement Microsoft has sent to The Verge (opens in new tab). The recording ability was meant to arrive sometime this year but now it’s being put on hold with this message from Microsoft: …
Read More »Assassins Creed Collection confirmed… as monthly magazine of hideous models
Excited about the potential of an HD Assassin’s Creed Collection when you heard the news of Ubi trademarking assassinscreedcollection.com were you? Perhaps you dreamed it would be a shiny remastered trilogy of Ezio’s adventures? Well, let me curb stomp your dream skull against a pavement, teeth first. And then put …
Read More »Payday 3 is coming and Payday 2 will get more updates through the end of 2017
Payday 3 is on the way but that doesn’t mean Payday 2 (opens in new tab) is stopping any time soon. Along with announcing (opens in new tab) that it had re-acquired all the rights to the first-person heist series from 505 Games, publisher Starbreeze revealed that it plans to …
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