The previous Stealth Inc. – or, to give its original, better title, Stealth Bastard – was a simple game about sneaking, Splinter Cell-style, around a facility full of robots, lasers, laser-wielding robots, and other things put there to make you dead. The difference, compared to most stealth games, is that …
Read More »Putting the Rock Band back together
Harmonix Music Systems is not your average developer. Ever since its founding in 1995, the Boston-based studio has specialised in the dazzling crossover between music and interaction – from early and largely unknown projects such as CamJam, which used body movements to trigger audio sequences, to the globe-conquering phenomena of …
Read More »World of Tanks adds free moon combat mode
Look at the Moon. So haughty and superior up there, thinking it’s safe from human aggression. Well I tell you what, Moon, we already stuck a flag in you, and now the console version of World of Tanks (opens in new tab) aims to add a few new craters to …
Read More »Assassins Creed Chronicles gets all the best locations
Well, would you look at that? More Assassins! Announced last year as part of Assassin’s Creed Unity’s canned season pass, it turns out that Assassin’s Creed Chronicles China is now only the first in a trilogy of 2.5D side-scrolling stabbing. As three standalone episodes released this year, Chronicles will travel …
Read More »Cheshire police will respond proportionately to children playing adult games
Playing eighteen rated games underage in Cheshire, UK has serious consequences it seems. Head teachers sent out a letter to the parents of children across sixteen schools stating that they could be reported for neglect if found to be allowing their children access to 18+ material. A letter from the …
Read More »SteamWorld Dig tunnelling its way to Xbox One
Following the revelation that an Xbox One port of SteamWorld Dig has been rated by PEGI (opens in new tab), Image & Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson has confirmed to GamesRadar+ that their critically-acclaimed Metroid/Mr Driller hybrid is indeed coming to the console. The company doesn’t have a firm release date …
Read More »Microsoft discusses the past, present, and future of Xbox games
The knives have been out for Microsoft since May 2013. That’s when the Xbox One was unveiled to a crowd of vocal Xbox fans who perhaps expected much more than Microsoft was promising. Well, maybe ‘more’ isn’t quite the word: ‘different’ might be more appropriate. While some argue that Microsoft …
Read More »Tales from the Borderlands Episode 2 coming in March, new trailer
You ever get into an interesting story right as the person telling it drops off the face of the Earth for a few months? Tales from the Borderlands (opens in new tab) is kind of like that. Fortunately, Telltale Games has revealed that the second episode of its hectic Pandoran …
Read More »Gore and swears land Batman: Arkham Knight an M rating
We already knew Rocksteady was upping the game when we found out last month that Batman: Arkham Knight (opens in new tab) had been rated Mature by US ratings board the ESRB (opens in new tab), but now we know why. While the third in the Rocksteady trilogy still contains …
Read More »Killer Instinct developer reveals new character and gameplay modes at PAX East
Killer Instinct developer Iron Galaxy Studios has lifted the veil on the latest addition to the Xbox One brawler, the ghostly Hisako, as well as offering up more details on the new Drivatar-esque Shadows mode. The Ring-aping phantom Hisako is a brand new addition to the Killer Instinct franchise – …
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