As you might have guessed from the name, Futurlab’s slick sci-fi actioner is a game primarily about moving very quickly. Sure, it has plenty more verbs in its vocabulary – you’ll also leap, slide, throw, shoot and teleport – but its defining characteristic is speed. You’ll earn stripes and stars …
Read More »BioShock developers new horror game, Perception, is “going to f**k with you”
“When I was hit with this concept – the seed of Perception – I wasn’t planning on starting something up. But as soon the idea came, I was like – oh man, oh man, oh man. I need to find a way to make this happen.” Bill Gardner had been …
Read More »How aggressive spanking helped make God Hand a gaming classic
Real violence hurts and has consequences, so winners don’t do punch-ups. Yet in even the weediest noob some ancient brain-part still finds fights exciting. Which is why videogames have, over the years, provided us with countless fantasy worlds revolving around a man punching another man. Few are as divine as …
Read More »Monster mash: Jurassic World writer joins King Kong prequel
King Kong prequel Kong: Skull Island is set to add some monster movie expertise to its production team, with THR (opens in new tab) reporting that Jurassic World co-writer Derek Connolly has signed on to work on the script. A regular creative partner of Colin Trevorrow, Connolly has been brought …
Read More »The ironically elusive Zorro Reborn is still alive, could shoot in 2016
It’s been all quiet regarding the prospect of a Zorro reboot over the last few months, but it seems that the project is still alive and kicking, with THR (opens in new tab) reporting that Lantica Media and Sobini Films are teaming up to finance the project, entitled Zorro Reborn. …
Read More »Choose your own explosions in new Mad Max trailer
First Just Cause 3 (opens in new tab), and now the upcoming Mad Max (opens in new tab) game; Avalanche Studios is on a roll with these interactive trailers (opens in new tab). Rather than forcing viewers to sit through one minute after another in succession, these videos break norms …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege gets swatted back to December, beta will continue as planned
Rainbow Six Siege (opens in new tab), Ubisoft’s competitive, team-based, eSports-focused twist on the Rainbow Six formula, has been nudged to December 1, a handful of months back from its previously-announced October 13 release date. Fortunately, the September 24 beta will continue as scheduled, though you’ll need to register (opens …
Read More »Mirrors Edge Catalyst is fixing the combat one kick at a time
Back in 2009 (when all this was forests as far as the eye can see), Mirror’s Edge did a lot of things really, really well. Free-flowing movement. Actual parkour. A bright and colourful future. But there was one thing it didn’t quite pull off – guns. Sadly, when it came …
Read More »Emily Blunt is a badass FBI agent in the new Sicario trailer
A new trailer has dropped for drug drama Sicario, in which Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin star as a trio of key players in the ongoing battle between Mexico’s drug cartels and the law enforcers attempting to take them down. As soon becomes clear, the rules between …
Read More »9 comics that should be TV shows
More than just superheroes… Comics have already taken over the movies and now they’re conquering TV. We already have a swathe of superhero shows based on books from Marvel and DC: Arrow, The Flash, Gotham and more. Then there’s The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman’s enormously popular zombie comic has become …
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