Check your inbox: EA’s sending out closed PC alpha invites for Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab). The chosen few who register in time will get in on early sessions of the upcoming online shooter from the creators of Battlefield, while everybody else will just have to wait until …
Read More »The Division beta is first on Xbox One, coming December, still moody
Tom Clancy’s The Division (opens in new tab) has been in development for an age, but we’ll finally get a taste of it via the Xbox One exclusive Beta, which is launching this December. The early access was confirmed at the Microsoft press conference this evening. The full game is …
Read More »Freedom of movement: why its time to replay Vanquish
Forget all that stuff about how momentous branching storylines and lasting consequences are to the future of games. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited by the idea that games can give players freedom to act, and a good way of doing that is often overlooked. That – combined with a …
Read More »Someones stolen all of GAMEs Splatoon Squid Amiibo – Seriously
In a ridiculously unfortunate – but true – series of events, someone has stolen all of GAME’s stock of special edition Splatoon (opens in new tab) and Squid Inkling Amiibo sets. Customers who had preordered this special edition received the email below from GAME stating that the lorry transporting the …
Read More »CoD Advanced Warfare Supremacy DLC hits Xbox on June 2
The third piece of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare DLC (opens in new tab) will hit Xbox 360 and Xbox One on June 2. If you’ve played the last two, you know what to expect from Supremacy: four competitive maps and another Exo Zombies episode, complete with a new leading …
Read More »Black Ops 3s boss explains why COD needs a three year dev cycle now
With most of the studios on the CoD roster working on two-year cycles, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 developer Treyarch is breaking the mould by giving the latest instalment an additional year of development. In the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, studio head Mark Lamia reveals the longer …
Read More »The Divisions been delayed out of 2015
Tom Clancy’s The Division (opens in new tab) is adding a few extra months to its development schedule. Ubisoft revealed in its latest financial report that the massively multiplayer shooter is now slated for release in the fourth quarter of its 2015-2016 fiscal year, meaning January to March of 2016. …
Read More »Black Ops 3s robot army sound a lot like Terminators
You might have seen the robots in Black Ops 3’s initial reveal (opens in new tab) and thought they looked a bit like Terminators, and you’d be right, with Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia explaining more about how the tin army works. Kill-bots, unsurprisingly, have completely different tactics on the …
Read More »“We didnt want to cartoonify the Nazis” – Making Wolfenstein: TNO
There’s nothing more relaxing of an evening than curling up by the fire with a nice hot cup of cocoa, quiet except for the noise of jazz crackling away on the record player, and the visceral sound of Nazis being shot in the head. So we’re happy we’re getting another …
Read More »Star Wars Battlefronts heroes are accessed via a power up
So far all we know for certain is that Boba Fett and Darth Vadar will be playable characters in Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab). Who else gets a cameo is still a mystery, but at least now design director Niklas Fegraeus has explained a little about how you …
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