Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a shock to me, but it’s only as I’m surrounded by lurching, beige-colored mutants that I realize just how scarce ammunition is in the post apocalyptic era. Within 20 minutes of being let out to roam the huge desert map – one of the game’s …
Read More »SFX presents its top 20 TV episodes of 2018
The world’s gone crazy. Every day the news is full of the latest bizarre Brexit plot twist, or jawdropping revelation from Trump, or global warming apocalypse omens. You’d think TV scriptwriters would throw in the towel trying to keep up. Instead, TV’s new golden age of drama continued very healthily …
Read More »“He’s much more like a drill sergeant” – Andy Serkis explains why Baloo doesn’t bust out Bear Necessities in Mowgli
If you went into Mowgli expecting some jungle japes and one or two renditions of Bear Necessities then you might have been left feeling a little sore. Andy Serkis’ second feature film as director which is new on Netflix (opens in new tab) and showing in select theatres right now, …
Read More »Red Dead Onlines battle royale mode is real, and called Make It Count
The Red Dead Online (opens in new tab) beta is now live for players who bought the Ultimate Edition of Red Dead Redemption 2 (opens in new tab), and Rockstar let us know what we could expect from some of the more competitive features of the online game. Crucially, it …
Read More »Darksiders 3 review: “Turning the series from Zelda clone to Dark Souls copycat has paid off”
It’s Armageddon. The end of the world. The forces of Heaven and Hell wage war on a scorched Earth. You must traverse this blasted landscape as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in order to defeat powerful foes and uncover a sinister conspiracy. It’s a setup that’s as …
Read More »Watch the The Sinking City’s cinematic trailer from the Golden Joystick Awards, and prepare for the scares
You can never have too much Lovecraft. Well, unless you’re a total scaredy cat. Otherwise, The Sinking City, Frogwares’ upcoming open world adventure set in the dystopian metropolis of the title, looks like a game worthy of the great cthulhu itself. An extended, cinematic trailer for The Sinking City has …
Read More »Fallout 76’s photo mode loading screens are a little moment of memory making brilliance
It’s pretty much standard issue for games to come with a photo mode these days, and Fallout 76 (opens in new tab) isn’t any different. It does however have a lovely little twist I’ve discovered in the Fallout 76 beta where the pictures you take are quietly slipped into your …
Read More »Fallout 76’s online world is the perfect way to explore its prequel setting and tell a fresh story
I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the Fallout 76 beta this much. I mean, I thought I’d like it, but I wasn’t expecting a weird feeling of almost childlike wonder to well up as the Appalachian mountains unfolded before me. More than ever before in the series I felt a very …
Read More »Start planning your Fallout 76 character early with this fan-made builder
Fallout 76 (opens in new tab) character builds will work unlike any other game in the post-nuclear RPG series, so you might want to get comfortable ahead of time. This slick, fan-made character builder tool (opens in new tab) lays out how the familiar set of SPECIAL stats underpins a …
Read More »8 things to watch out for this week
1. Black Ops 4 is here, but will its multiplayer-only approach feel comparable to a traditional Call of Duty experience? This year’s Call of Duty is an unusual one. If you haven’t heard the news, for the first time ever, it’s come out without a single-player campaign. That means no …
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