The Doom closed multiplayer beta is underway. Right now thousands of helmeted space marines are spamming rockets at each other across rivers of blood and lava. Occasionally, one of them stands on a rune and turns into a hellbeast. It’s kinetic and bloody, but is it any good? Tom and Phil have put in a few...
Ya koon tacha ka poonoo nee sah. Jabba the Hutt is laughing at me. The corpulent crime boss rumbles ominously in Huttese, relishing my damning choice to strike a deal with him. What little light that struggles through his throne room’s smoky haze is gridded onto the walls and floor through slatted vents. A stronger...
Remember that awful Doom movie with The Rock and Karl Urban? Bethesda Softworks remembers. You can tell, because the new live-action teaser for the upcoming Doom FPS is nothing like it. To be fair, it’s only a minute long, as opposed to the torturous 105 minutes of the film, but it gets right to the...
Blizzard released the first Overwatch animated short earlier this month, and it was really quite impressive. It shone a bit of light onto the origins of Winston, the brilliant, Beast-like scientist who packs a ferocious punch, and maybe—probably—possibly contained a few secrets, too. Soon, fans will be able to start digging for more, as Blizzard...
TimeSplitters 2 was a defining game of the PS2, Gamecube, Xbox and, er, not PC. In fact, there has never been a TimeSplitters game on PC, until now: the first two levels of TimeSplitters 2, Siberia and Chicago, are hidden inside the upcoming Homefront: The Revolution. If you’d rather not know where, back away now. TimeSplitters’ singleplayer campaign was...
Back in December, the free-to-play FPS Tribes: Ascend was updated for the first time in two years, shortly after which developer Hi-Rez Studios talked to us about how it had screwed up the game, and more importantly, what it was doing to try to bring it back. The December patch was a small step forward “for...
Fallout 4 isn’t the only game getting a survival mode: Ubisoft has announced that something very similar, with a slightly different name, is coming to Far Cry Primal. Called, wait for it, “Survivor Mode,” it will add a number of new features that will make the game more difficult, and even make permadeath a selectable option....
2K Games has dropped a big Battleborn info dump that helpfully collects everything you ever wanted to know about the upcoming FPS/MOBA hybrid but were afraid to ask. Highlights include a rundown of Hardcore Mode, which ramps up the Story Mode with “extra loot, all new unlockable content, and some really, REALLY tough fights,” as...
It’s Homefront: The Revolution’s civilian population that interests me most. There’s potential to get inside the minds of an oppressed people and explore the dynamics between an armed resistance, collaborators and those just trying to get on with their lives. Whether The Revolution can exploit that potential remains to be seen, but NPCs promise to be more than decoration. The new...
Mirage: Arcane Warfare is throwing its pointy wizard hat into 2016’s most crowded genre: the competitive multiplayer action thing. As the spiritual follow-up to Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, the 6-on-6, first-person magic ‘n’ melee game will compete with Overwatch, Battleborn, Paragon, (Gigantic?), LawBreakers, Paladins, and others. After seeing a hands-off demo of Mirage, there are two reasons...
