Ori and the Blind Forest blew me away when I first saw it after Microsoft sneaked it out at last year’s E3. Nine months later we can now all play Moon Studios’ labour of love.I’m not much of a fan of indie games. For every gem there’s a dozen or so bits of pretentious rubbish. … Continue Reading ››
This week Ubisoft launched the PC version of the “other” Assassin’s Creed game, Assassin’s Creed Rogue. And with no current-gen console version at the moment, this is most definitely the next best thing.Unlike Assassin’s Creed Unity, Rogue launched late last year on Xbox 360 and PS3 without a hitch.Borrowing heavily from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black … Continue Reading ››
2K’s four vs. one monster hunting game is now out in the wild. I've spent the last few weeks being the hunter and the hunted in Evolve.Evolve’s developer, Turtle Rock, pretty much invented the concept of narrative-driven co-operative multiplayer game-play with Left 4 Dead. In pitting a group of four players in a drop-in/drop-out zombie … Continue Reading ››
I’ve enjoyed revisiting some of the last-gen’s classic games on my PlayStation 4. The likes of Grand Theft Auto V, The Last of Us Remastered and Metro: Redux have blown me away with their ultra-polished visuals.Well, now it’s Saints Row’s turn with Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and Gat out of Hell for Xbox One and … Continue Reading ››
Sony Computer Entertainment have been teasing us with The Order: 1886 since they first announced the PlayStation 4 way back in February 2013. Over the last two years the publisher has been drip-feeding scant details about their cinematic third-person shooter set in a steampunk re-imagining of Victorian London.In the run up to the game’s launch … Continue Reading ››
When Company of Heroes publisher THQ went to the wall in 2012, the future of Relic’s sequel to their acclaimed 2006 WWII PC real-time strategy game seemed in doubt. Sega stepped in, themselves no strangers to the genre being publishers of the Total War games, and in June 2013 they released Company of Heroes 2.Late … Continue Reading ››
In only a few short hours gamers will get to play the Battlefield Hardline beta for the last time before its release on March 20th.It’s a game that’s been a long time coming. I first played it at E3, when that first beta was launched during the EA press event. It was OK, but I … Continue Reading ››
I recently sat down with CD Projekt RED’s senior writer Jakub Szamalek and senior QA analyst Bartosz Ochman. During our conversation we spoke about the attention to detail required to create the huge open-world of their upcoming game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt comes out soon. What are you working on … Continue Reading ››
