Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are dropping in November this year, and really do mark a new generation for the Pokemon series. Offering up the first, true open world adventure, we’ve now received quite a lot of new details for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Since the initial reveal, we’ve seen more …
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It’s been far from smooth sailing for Skull and Bones. In development for nearly a decade, building off tech that we first saw in 2012’s Assassin’s Creed 3, a novel opportunity for a side project seems to have become the albatross around Ubisoft Singapore’s neck. Now, it looks like the …
Read More »The best city building games that let you urban plan your heart out
The best city building games will let you create, build up, and manage your own empires, civilizations, metropolises, kingdoms, and settlements. With some offering an in-depth level of strategy, many also include a host of different settings and features that will let you craft and customize your own bustling cityscape …
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Growing up, superstitions are often used to stop us from doing dangerous things. “Don’t sit too close to the television or you’ll ruin your eyesight”, and “if you swallow chewing gum, it’ll stay in your digestive system for seven years,” were just some of the things I heard as a …
Read More »10 best NES games of all time
The best NES games of all-time are all classics. They aren’t just fantastic video games in their own right, but experiences that helped to establish Nintendo’s biggest franchises and make the manufacturer a force to be reckoned with in the industry. When the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in 1983, the …
Read More »Fallout 5 confirmed – everything we know
Fallout 5 confirmed. That’s a sentence we’ve waited some time to put into writing. It was surely inevitable given the huge success of the action RPG series under Bethesda’s care since 2008, but, with Starfield and the Elder Scrolls 6 in the oven, nothing was certain until now. On June …
Read More »Everything announced at the Xbox Bethesda Games Showcase
The Xbox Bethesda Games Showcase was breathless. Microsoft Gaming showed over 30 upcoming Xbox Series X games in a 95 minute conference. All set to release in the next 12 months, and most with actual in-game footage (rather than in-engine cinematics, which the company had been previously criticised for relying …
Read More »A Plague Tale: Requiem hands-on preview
Just a few minutes into my A Plague Tale: Requiem hands-on and Amicia de Rune is shin-deep in shit. While that would be an apt description for the sequel to a stealth horror game about avoiding ravenous rats, it’s also quite literally what’s happening. Amicia and Lucas have set out …
Read More »The Modern Warfare 2 campaign seeks to strike a balance between provocation and pleasure
The Modern Warfare 2 campaign doesn’t want to make you uncomfortable, it just wants to wow you. This is good news – 2019’s Modern Warfare campaign had a few missions that were, quite frankly, tasteless, and it seems Infinity Ward is keen to avoid such controversy with the sequel. During …
Read More »Stray Preview: BlueTwelve Studios impressive indie is catnip for cat lovers
Stray producer Swann Martin-Raget sells BlueTwelve Studio’s upcoming indie game without even trying in a single, pitch-perfect moment during our hands-off preview. After pausing mid-way through the demo, he takes questions from journalists in attendance. “I’m not good at talking and playing, I’m not a streamer,” he admits, letting the …
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