Tag Archives: E3 2016

If you’re a fan of virtual reality, you might be wondering what game will be the first one you show to your non-believer family and friends. What VR experience will be the one you use to introduce the technology to skeptics? It’s not a shooter. It’s not a horror game. …

If there’s one thing the Mafia series has always been good at, it’s creating a believable sense of time and place in a specific era of American culture. For Mafia 3, it’s the South in the late 1960s, a tumultuous period in American history filled with racial tension and gangland …

Batman VR is fucking amazing. Those were the words I used when I pulled the PS VR headset off my scalp when I finished, and those are the words that keep coming to mind when I think back to the 15 minutes I spent under the cowl. It’s the ultimate …

Let It Die (opens in new tab) is what you get when you drag Dark Souls back through time, fill it with cheap booze, and knock it out on the floor of CBGB after a long night of dirty punk shows. That’s unsurprising given its developer is Grasshopper Manufacture, the …

By Bungies’ own admission, “the number one thing players have been asking for is more content”. It’s something Christopher Barrett, Destiny (opens in new tab)’s creative director, told me when I got a chance to speak to him about ’the ten year plan’ – Activision’s famous launch promise, and the …

Gaming’s most savage antihero Kratos has no problem stabbing a hulking cyclops in the gut, leaping atop its back, and – without a moment’s hesitation – ripping its lone eye from its socket with his bare hands. Yet, in the closing scene for the new God of War (opens in …

Quantic Dream, the studio behind similarly story-driven Heavy Rain, turned heads last year with the hyper-realistic look of its new game. The studio shared another story from the universe of Detroit: Become Human (opens in new tab) during Sony’s E3 press conference. The latest glimpse highlighted much of what we …

Capcom has confirmed Resident Evil 7 for release early next year, at Sony’s E3 Conference – and the entire game is playable in PS VR. Reveal footage teases that the story is linked to the Kitchen tech demo we wrote about (opens in new tab) at last year’s show, with …

EDIT – CONFIRMED: The Stick Of Truth is coming free – yes, free – with The Fractured But Whole on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Sweeeeet. ORIGINAL STORY: We’ve known that South Park: The Fractured But Whole is headed to current-gen machines for a little while now – but it …

If you love Star Trek, the chances are you don’t want anything so vulgar as a third person cover shooter. You want a game about calmly making decisions with your capable crew. You want a game that lets you make orders in an officious voice, gently gliding you to safety, …