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Here’s further proof P.T. really is t...

Mar 22, 2020Comments off

Intrepid modder Lance McDonald is back with perhaps the most unsettling P.T. hack yet. Beyond swivelling the camera to see if Lisa is indeed following you as you loop the corridor (spoilers: YES SHE IS ARGH)

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Sony pulls Super Mario from Dreams after Ni...

Mar 21, 2020Comments off

Sony has pulled a popular Super Mario character model from PlayStation 4 game Dreams after a complaint from Nintendo. As spotted by GoNintendo, Dreams creator PieceOfCraft took to Twitter to reveal “Mario projects in Dreams are

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Blizzard offers staff drive-through care pa...

Mar 21, 2020Comments off

Blizzard has sent staff in its California and Texas offices to work from home amid the Coronavirus outbreak – and opened drive-through care packages that include essential supplies. 40 million Californians woke up this morning to

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Doom Eternal analysis: how id Tech 7 pushes...

Mar 21, 2020Comments off

Doom 2016 revitalised the fortunes of both id software and the classic Doom franchise, delivering a phenomenal, exhilarating focus on high-speed combat, extreme gore and sprawling stage design. It was a modern, refreshed take on a

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With cinemas closed, the Sonic the Hedgehog...

Mar 21, 2020Comments off

The digital release of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been brought forward, Paramount Pictures has announced. The movie launches digitally on 31st March 2020 – just over a month after it first hit cinemas in

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Alatreon Soars to Monster Hunter World: Ice...

Mar 21, 2020Comments off

The Guiding Lands have undergone lots of change lately. First it was Rajang opening up the Volcanic Region, Stygian Zinogre paving the way to the Tundra Region and the discovery of Safi’jiiva. Raging Brachydios and Furious

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Call of Duty: Warzone sees 30m players in 1...

Mar 21, 2020Comments off

Call of Duty: Warzone has seen over 30 million players in 10 days, Activision has announced. The free-to-play battle royale came out on 10th March 2020, and hit six million players in 24 hours, then 15

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Understanding world-building in games

Mar 21, 2020Comments off

I’ve watched Inception once a year ever since its, er, inception. While no film ages perfectly once you can quote it in real-time and have pored over every little flaw and inconsistency, I think Nolan’s heist

Call of Duty: Warzone Review

Mar 20, 2020Comments off

The Call of Duty: Warzone beta takes a vastly different approach than most other battle royales. Death is an inconvenience rather than the end, top-tier weapons are consistently easy to come by, and skill will only

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The Drop: New PlayStation Games for March 2...

Mar 20, 2020Comments off

PlayStation VR gets a pair of diverse new experiences next week in The Room VR: A Dark Matter, the newest in the acclaimed puzzle series (and its first foray into virtual reality); and Paper Beast, a