TT Games’ franchise of Lego video games has become a powerhouse since its experimental beginnings in Lego Star Wars back in 2005, but despite the many sequels across many different properties, not a huge amount has changed mechanically since then. Lego Dimensions feels like TT Games’ vehement answer to that criticism. “Fine, you want different?…
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It’s been a good week for gaming on late night TV with Stephen Colbert following up his Thursday night Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg interview with a live demo of No Man’s Sky from Hello Games’ Sean Murray.
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There was a moment not five minutes into Disney Infinity 3.0 that made me wonder if the developers had been reading my dream journal. The moment in question was a wonderful sequence that featured the Millennium Falcon in a Star Fox-esque on-rails shooter through an asteroid belt. That’s a game I didn’t even know I…
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Of course you do, wouldn’t want that? Even if you haven’t managed to chew through all of the content in the base game yet, you know you want more.
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EA Sports’ superstar FIFA franchise spent the bulk of the last console generation aggressively locking any and all competitors out of the genre before being caught off guard last year by an unexpectedly strong showing from Pro Evolution Soccer 2015. Can EA Sports turn things around in 2016?
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Bethesda have released the latest in their series of educational videos for Fallout 4, made in the style of a 1940’s newsreel.
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Hideo Kojima is clearly very torn about leaving his Metal Gear series behind after nearly 30 years. The fact that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain spends a lot of time on the notion of losing a part of yourself, physically and mentally, illustrates this. Kojima leverages the phenomenon of phantom limb pain –…
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Bungie have released a short trailer for King’s Fall, the first new raid for Destiny: The Taken King. The raid will appear in the weekly update that drops today.
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Naughty Dog have announced that the multiplayer beta for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End will commence December 4 and run through to December 13.
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Lego Dimensions is Warner Bros.’ first foray into hyper competitive toys-to-life genre of games, combining beloved properties from throughout the film, TV and gaming world and, if the game’s voice cast is anything to go by, they are not messing around.
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Square Enix are bringing a total of three Kingdom Hearts games to the PS4. The games will come as a package deal called Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue. The announcement came during Sony’s press conference ahead of TGS tonight.
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In a wild departure for the Resident Evil series, Capcom have announced a tactical team-based competitive shooter called Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps. The game will arrive next year on PS4 according to producer Masachika Kawata, who made the announcement during Sony’s pre-TGS 2015 presser.
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Ni-Oh was originally announced as a PS3 title back in 2010. It dropped off the radar and many assumed it was cancelled. Not so. Sony have announced during their TGS press con that the game will see the light of day on the PS4 next year.
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Sega have announced during Sony’s pre-TGS 2015 press event that a remaster of their original Japanese crime adventure Yakuza (called Ryo Ga Gotoku at home) is on its way to PS3 and PS4 in Japan this year.
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Sony plan to release an updated edition of their popular PSVita title Gravity Rush onto the PS4 later this year. The news came straight from Sony during their pre-TGS 2015 press conference.
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The first expansion for From Software’s demonically difficult adventure title Bloodborne will land on PS4 this November. The news comes from Sony’s pre-TGS showcase.
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Project Morpheus, Sony’s proprietary virtual reality headset, has been rechristened. The hardware’s new title, PlayStation VR, was announced by SCEJ&A president Atsushi Morita during Sony’s pre-TGS presser tonight.
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We’ve seen quite a few games from Sony’s library of last generation title arrive on PS4 with shiny new graphics and frame rates but the curious case of PSVita title Tearaway’s current-gen remaster took many by surprise.
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Late last week, we got a chance to chat to Rex Crowle from Media Molecule about the developer’s upcoming title, Tearaway: Unfolded. We asked him about the decisions that go into making a game as unique as Tearaway and how Media Molecule approach the task of moving the game, built for the PSVita, to a new home…
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I’ve been thinking for a few days now about how I was going to approach my Mad Max review. I’ve found it an incredibly difficult game to review, for a number of reasons. It lacks the punch of Mad Max Fury Road and the vision of Shadow of Mordor. But it’s not bad. In fact,…
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For those pining for more Geralt of Rivia in their lives, CD Projekt Red have announced that Hearts of Stone, the first story-driven expansion for their fantasy RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, will release October 13. Geralt has been hired to take down a bandit captain named Olgierd von Everec, who is supposedly immortal. Geralt…
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Published by the acclaimed Bethesda and developed by Arkane Studios, Dishonored launched to critical and financial acclaim when it was released in 2012. While it was far from perfect, it certainly presented something fresh and forced players to think rather than merely kick a door down and shooting everything in sight. The Definitive Edition is…
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EA have announced that they’re moving ahead with a “technical test” of DICE’s Star Wars Battlefront. The beta will launch in early October and will feature three game modes, including one brand new mode.
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With its October 10 release date looming, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate has a lot to prove. Many fans of the series are keen to see how the game runs in comparison to last year’s disastrous Assassin’s Creed Unity. The latest trailer for the game shows us not only what appears to be the game running but also a…
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided finally has an official release date. That’s good! It’s also offering one of the most poorly thought-out preorder deals in recent memory. That’s bad.
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With Mad Max launching on consoles and PC September 2, Warner Bros Interactive has enlisted Sydney street artists for a PR stunt that turned a pair of cars into rolling, dirty billboards for the game.
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Variety reports that Lionsgate are developing a film based on Gearbox’s popular first person shooter series Borderlands with Marvel producers Avi and Ari Arad.
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With American football rapidly gaining popularity in Australia due to the rise of online streaming services (and a longheld belief that we were missing out on something due to all the American media we consume), the Madden series of games is becoming less and less of a curiosity here. With Madden 16, EA is playing…
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released a TV spot showcasing the chaotic, action-packed open-world game, Mad Max, based on the film franchise of the same name. The game is set in the savage post-apocalyptic Wasteland where cars are the key to survival. Players take on the role of Mad Max, a lone warrior and reluctant…
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With the exception of some of Telltale’s back catalogue, the “interactive movie” style of game has never really been my cup of tea. I didn’t like Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls barely made a dent. Thus, I went into my review of Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn with no small amount of skepticism. Despite my…
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