BioWare’s first foray into the burgeoning Games as a Service (GaaS) market has not been a success for the studio, and that’s putting it kindly. Anthem (opens in new tab) has encountered an array of problems since its launch in February, and it feels as if a fair share of …
Read More »What items could the Fortnite Vault Event return in Season 9, and why were they vaulted in the first place?
If you’ve been jumping out of the Fortnite bus over the last few weeks then you’ve probably seen the giant vault that has taken over Loot Lake, along with random beams of light and runes. There’s plenty of rumours floating around regarding what this vault is for, but there’s also …
Read More »Who could be the new Iron Man? We look at the most likely candidates
With the spectre of Marvel Phase 4 (opens in new tab) looming ever larger, the conversation about who will be the new Iron Man is picking up pace. Hell, even the OG Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., is weighing in with thoughts about who should replace him after the …
Read More »SteamWorld Quest is another great solo card game like Slay the Spire, but with way more robots
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamesh may well have started as a side-project spin-off from Image & Form’s SteamWorld series, but it has quickly ballooned into the biggest and most built-out SteamWorld game to date. While all of the games that fall under the SteamWorld umbrella share a steampunk aesthetic, unique …
Read More »What feature would you be most excited to see from the next generation of consoles?
With all the recent news about PS5 (opens in new tab) and Xbox Project Scarlett (opens in new tab) filling our brains ahead of June’s big E3 gaming show, we can’t help filling our wish journals with the things we actually want our new machines to do. It’s not just …
Read More »A simple rule killed my backlog and changed gaming for me: Just play the new one
For about six years of my adolescence, I didn’t really play games. More accurately, I only played one game: Runescape. That was it. As a result, my gaming library is full of holes. There are tons of classic games that I’ve never played, and I spent years struggling to play …
Read More »The secret charm of starting zones in video games
It doesn’t matter if you’re gliding off the Great Plateau, setting sail from Kefalonia’s golden coast, or watching the gates of Vault 101 open before your weary eyes, the emotions are the same. A sense of fear and trepidation at the unfamiliar terrain that lies before you, yes, but also …
Read More »The skyrocketing rise of Auto Chess, a Dota 2 custom map thats become one of the years biggest games
It’s not often that we get to witness the genesis of an entirely new game genre. On January 3, 2019, Dota Auto Chess (opens in new tab) was first posted to the Steam Workshop as a mod for Dota 2, Valve’s eminently popular MOBA that supports custom games sectioned off …
Read More »Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is “Civilization meets Assassins Creed” but with apes
It’s a good thing that I wasn’t one of the chimp-like hominids that would become the bedrock for modern man. The new, ambitious open-world survival experiment Ancestors: Humankind Odyssey proves that if that had been the case, we would today be living in a world where everyone had boneless, limp …
Read More »Jonah Hill reflects on his actor-to-director career as skateboarding passion project Mid90s arrives in cinema
It’s a cold day in New York when Jonah Hill sits down to talk to our sister publication Total Film magazine (opens in new tab) in February 2019. “It’s like, freezing!” he laugh-shivers. He’s taking a break from his next writing project to talk about his directorial debut, Mid90s, which …
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