Boo! Ever had a shadowy figure pass by in the corner of your eye, but when you turn to look nothing is there? Your heart pounds with unnecessary adrenaline and the confidence boost of instant relief as you realise everything’s fine. That feeling can be addictive, even if you suddenly …
Read More »RTS games on console
The real time strategy (RTS) genre might be more traditionally associated with PC gaming, but the release of Xbox One’s Halo Wars 2 (opens in new tab) is a timely reminder that strategy games can work well on console, despite being such complicated beasts. You have to manage a base …
Read More »In praise – and defence – of Ashley Williams, the most contentious character in BioWare’s sci-fi epic
Mass Effect (opens in new tab)will be ten years old this year. I don’t know about you, but I think I’d prefer to contend with civilisation-consuming immortal robo-squid than confront the actual process of entropy that this last decade represents. Even so, some things weather time better than others – …
Read More »RadioRadar+ Podcast 68: E3 goes public, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and our first spoilercast
The Big Topic: Horizon: Zero Dawn’s big, beautiful open world Further Discussion: E3 is officially open to the public What we’re into: Spoiling Resident Evil 7, Final Fantasy 15, and The Last Guardian To the victor go the spoils. Er, spoilers. This joke made more sense in my head. ANYWAY. …
Read More »So… how does Breath of the Wild fit into the Zelda timeline?
Ever since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab) was announced, the most die-hard fans have put on their green detective caps and tried to place the game into the series’ complicated timeline (opens in new tab). There has been no official statement from Nintendo, …
Read More »Prey – its like Dishonored had a baby with BioShock in space… and youre going to love it
Spoilers for Prey’s first hour follow below. Prepare to love Prey (opens in new tab). While this game is technically in the same franchise as a weird FPS about Native Americans and aliens from 2006, the two share minimal similarities. Try to think of this as Dishonored 2 (opens in …
Read More »The 50 best movie kisses. And they say romance is dead…
We all love a good kiss. Makes the world seem a better place, gives us a nice lift if we’re down, and makes us feel truly loved. Movies know this, and they like to show this wonderful aspect of human interaction (which is a bit weird when you actually think …
Read More »For Honors mastermind: “My greatest fear was that I would die before I could share this with the world”
According to Jason VandenBerghe, creative director on Ubisoft’s For Honor (opens in new tab), there are only a handful of lucky developers who get to create the game of their dreams. It took him almost ten years to get the vision he had for For Honor greenlit and the game …
Read More »Is it just me, or are all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies the same?
“Marvel does it again!” squealed the early reviews for Doctor Strange (opens in new tab). And that, old friends, is entirely the problem. Though neither expert nor aficionado, I’ve seen nine out of 14 MCU films, including both Avengers (although I could barely finish Age of Bloat-ron), the “good” one …
Read More »The escape room game that makes PS VR worth owning
You wake up in a generic, sterile utility room; the kind you’d find in any bland, corporate R&D building. Ahead of you are a series of lockers, cabinets and some tables. Closer to you are a few signs with strange symbols on them, and to their right is a fairly …
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