Warning: If you haven’t watched Game of Thrones season 6, episode 4 yet, there’s lots of spoilers below. Leave now and save yourself! This week’s Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) saw fans dreams come true as two of the Stark siblings were finally reunited (opens in new tab), …
Read More »Dishonored 2 is both bold departure and careful refinement
She may have been born into royalty, but Dishonored 2’s Emily Kaldwin hasn’t had the easiest of upbringings. Her mother expired on the end of an assassin’s blade, leaving the precocious princess to bounce between all manner of treacherous types. Although that messy interregnum ended with Emily’s ascension to the …
Read More »Outlast 2 is a little bit PT, and more than enough Wicker Man
In my brief ten-minute hands-on of Outlast 2 (opens in new tab), I got so frightened that I knocked the headphone jack out of the demo station’s PC, shouted expletives I will not repeat here, and asked the developers, “What the hell is wrong with you?” the moment I stepped …
Read More »Pyre is a strange, intoxicating blend of Oregon Trail and Final Fantasys Blitzball
Pyre is weird as hell. Supergiant Games is, of course, no stranger to making weird games. Like Bastion and Transistor before it, Pyre is breathtakingly beautiful, set in a unique, densely-packed world, and its game design plays off of familiar concepts but twists them just enough to subvert your expectations. …
Read More »Mafia 3’s criminal open-world is classier, cleverer, and entirely more calculated
A sequel to Mafia 2 was always going to be a tricky balancing act. Less a true open-worlder, more a linear action game running through a huge, ambient film set, it was an excellent but divisive game. Some loved it for the strong narrative focus and more curated, directed gameplay …
Read More »Gears of War 4 is smaller, smarter, and more scary
War never changes, apparently. Gears of War though, really, really did. Appearing in 2006 as a taught, demanding, horror-tinged cover shooter, it redefined third-person combat as radically as its own inspiration, Resident Evil 4, had done before it. Typified by tension, tactics, and an ever-ferocious tug-of-war for space and momentum, …
Read More »Destiny is crying out for new stuff – is the April update enough?
“We didn’t want to hide the action from our players this time because they’re very eager for new things to do.” So says Bungie’s community manager, DeeJ, when I caught up with him to discuss Destiny (opens in new tab)’s latest update, which adds a whole host of stuff to …
Read More »Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Eye in the Sky, Our Little Sister, more…
Out on Friday 15 April Helen Mirren plays a game of drones. God is alive and lives in Brussels. Hirokazu Koreeda returns with a tender family story. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of Eye in the Sky, The Brand New Testament, Our Little Sister, …
Read More »The Outsider: Microtransactions are actually really popular
The Outsider: He’s here to judge you. Here’s here to judge gaming’s sacred cows. And he’s brought his bolt gun. His views do not necessarily represent those of the GamesRadar+ team… and by that we mean ‘definitely’. So it’s my job, as somebody outside the bubble of gaming, to bring …
Read More »Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children – is it okay to like it now?
What’s the nerdiest piece of merchandise you own? For me, I’ve got a $250/£180 Lego version of the Tumbler from the Dark Knight that sits on my dining table, and every time someone vaguely important comes round to mine, I empty out a drawer where I can hide the damned …
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