E3 2017 (opens in new tab) is over. The hot, excitable crowds have returned home, the booths have been dismantled, and the dancing panda from the Just Dance stage presentation has been turned into a nice rug for the lobby of the Ubisoft Montreal offices. You could argue for days …
Read More »7 things we learned about God of War at E3 2017: Father/son co-operation, original trilogy links, and the Zelda factor
2018’s God of War (opens in new tab) is one of the most exciting, yet most question-raising, elements of the upcoming PlayStation slate. Series hero Kratos appears drastically changed, and now inhabits a new land, far from his original home, but regardless he’s the same man. He was once driven …
Read More »Ive played Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus and… oh god, you can crush Nazi skulls with wheelchair wheels
Machine Games’ rebooted Wolfenstein has always felt designed to parallel its protagonist. A fast, brutal, gloriously excessive, but deceptively smart shooter, released out of time and out of place into a world unprepared for its return, 2014’s The New Order mirrored the status of BJ Blazkowicz very keenly indeed. A …
Read More »With the raw power of Xbox One X, Microsoft has a shot at getting back on top
It might be hard to imagine now, given how the last few years have gone, but once upon a time the Xbox was thought of as the powerhouse console. Though Microsoft didn’t always have quite the same robust library PlayStation was able to offer, especially in the era of the …
Read More »Amazing E3 games you mightve missed (because they werent at any press conferences)
In a year when most of the big press conferences at E3 2017 were jammed packed with games, particularly the Sony (opens in new tab) and Microsoft (opens in new tab) presentations, it might surprise you that there are a huge number of games being showcased at the convention (and …
Read More »PES 2018 hands-on: Usain Bolt, sublime gameplay and the end of history
In 1992, political scientist Francis Fukuyama posited that western liberal democracy may signal the end of mankind’s social evolution. His argument was that we had reached the final form of government, where no further iteration was possible, which he described as the ‘end of history’ (opens in new tab). In …
Read More »7 things you may have missed in the E3 2017 Spider-Man gameplay trailer
Sweet christmas! Spider-Man (opens in new tab) is back! Insomniac’s stage demo for its upcoming rendition of the web-slinging wonder was a standout curtain closer for Sony’s E3 2017 press conference (opens in new tab), jam packed with gameplay that fans have been waiting for since the project was first …
Read More »Sony’s E3 2017 press conference was another classy, confident show, but thanks to over-familiar games, not a truly exciting one
You know when you’re really excited about a big film, and so you decide to treat yourself when you finally go to the cinema to see it? So you buy the biggest fizzy drink you can, you pick up the biggest bag of the sweetest popcorn, and possibly some M&Ms …
Read More »Microsoft wowed E3 2017 with Xbox One X, but its more a curiosity than a must-buy. For now.
Coming out of E3 2017 (opens in new tab), Xbox needed a home run. Microsoft has been outsold almost 2:1 by PlayStation, and the public controversies and collapse of big-name titles during this generation – including the broken state of Halo: Master Chief Collection, the removal of splitscreen from Halo …
Read More »5 things you need to know about new grindhouse horror TV show Blood Drive
You know how you’ve always wanted a grindhouse horror TV show about cars that run on human blood? Well, you’re in luck because Blood Drive is coming to a small screen near you soon. Starring Spanish actress Christina Ochoa and Alan Ritchson (you might recognise him from The Hunger Games: …
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