The web rumours are (partially) true: Rogue One, the first Star Wars Anthology movie (the official name for the standalones) will centre on a bid to nab the Death Star plans. On-stage at Star Wars: Celebration, Gareth Edwards unveiled a short but very sweet teaser for the December 2016 release. …
Read More »A new caped crusader rises in Hollow Knight
If all the brightly coloured indie pixels were beginning to give you a migraine, I’ve got the perfect antidote for you and your sunglasses-at-night-wearing sensibilities. The beautifully gloomy Hollow Knight, developed by Australian studio Team Cherry (opens in new tab), raced past its Kickstarter goal back in December and even …
Read More »GTA 5 movies
It’s amazing what players can do when you give them a way to channel their creativity. Following in the footsteps of Valve’s Source Filmmaker, Rockstar Games added the power to make in-game movies to the PC version of GTA 5 (opens in new tab). Using the plainly named Rockstar Editor …
Read More »12 games made better with Star Wars mods
Time to pick up some power converters It would cost you a fortune to buy every Star Wars game ever made. Not that you’d necessarily want to, either; for all the greats like Knights of the Old Republic and Rogue Squadron, you’ve also got time-forgotten stinkers like Super Bombad Racing …
Read More »Get Into Games 2015: Dare to be Digital BAFTA winners share game jam advice
This year’s Edge Get Into Games Challenge, in association with Unity and Abertay University, is now in full swing. The theme for our latest challenge is loot, which you’re free to interpret as you wish, and you can find more details on the rules and how to enter, here. To …
Read More »Edge 279: How Nintendos Splatoon is reinventing the multiplayer shooter
In typical fashion, Nintendo is approaching the worn-in mulitplayer shooter genre from its own idiosyncratic angle. Over ten pages, we go hands on with Splatoon and speak to the team behind the game to find out how Nintendo is preparing to make an indelible mark on this most familiar of …
Read More »Do we really need another Mega Man game?
It’s been nearly five years since Capcom released the last official Mega Man game. Mega Man 10 was just like all the other Mega Man games (Mega Mans?) that came before it; crunchy 8-bit graphics, a series of themed robot bosses, and soul-crushing difficulty. Since then, Capcom has released a …
Read More »How a bridge full of zombies reminded me of the great possibility of games
My favourite thing in Dying Light isn’t the freerunning, or the day/night cycle, or the customisable weapons that I nevertheless do enjoy crafting in order to pulverise the at-one-remove-from-humanity-so-this-bloodlust-is-fine population of Harran. My favourite thing is an actual thing – a place, a small playground of concrete and cables that …
Read More »The problem with Square Enixs 48-hour game reveal
You’ve got to applaud Square Enix for trying something different. Starting today, the publisher kicked off a three-day livestreaming event entitled Project CKP (opens in new tab), an acronym for the cryptic phrase ‘Can’t Kill Progress’ and a tease for the reveal of a new game by a Western developer. …
Read More »Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days Of Future Past to include 17 minutes of new footage
One casualty from last year’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past is about to get revived. And we’re not talking about Bolivar Trask’s foiled Sentinels program. The retconning sequel marked the return of several major players from all eras of Fox’s X-Men movie-verse, including Anna Paquin’s Rogue. Alas, one of the …
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