One thousand. That, give or take, is the number of digital-exclusive games estimated to become unavailable for purchase once Nintendo’s 3DS and Wii U digital stores are shuttered. For everyone except those who already own affected games – a situation soon to present challenges of its own, given that credit …
Read More »Deliver Us Mars devs on going the extra mile to create a credible alien world
Deliver Us Mars looks bleak. It looks daunting. In the most desperate, isolating and life-threatening sense, it looks terrifying. And these are just some of the compliments I could pay KeokeN Interactive and Frontier Foundry’s upcoming sci-fi puzzle adventure at first glance. That early glimpse of the developer’s follow-up to …
Read More »Anya Taylor-Joy and Alexander Skarsgård on making The Northman: “Its a miracle that anyone survived this”
When Total Film meets Anya Taylor-Joy and Alexander Skarsgård, we’re all warm (and surrounded by a television crew) in a London hotel room – a million miles away from the conditions under which they made The Northman. Filmed predominantly in Ireland, with excursions to Iceland, their new Viking epic is …
Read More »How an all-star musical lineup changed video game soundtracks forever
Most people associate Halo 2 with the birth of Xbox Live, but Halo 2 did more than simply change the world of online multiplayer; it changed the world of video game music too. The Halo 2 soundtrack is one of the most ambitious and successful video game soundtracks that has …
Read More »What does the GTA community think of GTA+, the new premium subscription service?
Three thousand, one hundred and two days elapsed between the first launch of GTA Online and the game’s GTA+ premium subscription service. That’s 443 weeks, or 102 months, or eight-and-a-half years. Rolling membership models are so commonplace in today’s live service games, that the idea of one of the biggest …
Read More »The Cub is inspired by super-challenging SEGA sidescrollers but is “built for today”
The Cub bills itself as “The Jungle Book meets Armageddon”, and that is one hell of a sell. Add that to the fact it’s a self-proclaimed old-school platformer, inspired by 16-bit era sidescrollers but “built for today”, and it would appear Demagog Studio and Untold Tales are very clear on …
Read More »The Avengers wasnt always a franchise – then New Avengers changed everything
The word “franchise” is thrown around a lot in comic books circles, but if there’s one property over the last 20 years that has evolved in a way that has genuinely earned the “franchise” label, it’s Marvel Comics’ The Avengers. While always a high-profile title, The Avengers wasn’t always a …
Read More »Ignore the rumors, there wont be a Switch 2 for quite some time
Where is the Switch 2? It isn’t an outrageous question. You see, it’s usually around four years in a console’s life when, no matter how well it’s doing, gamers start thinking about the manufacturer’s next piece of hardware. Recently, we’ve seen lots of rumor and speculation around the lifespan of …
Read More »The Year of Valiant 2022 – the interview
2022 is about “putting fans first with each and every comic” and exploring “deeper into the iconic Valiant shared universe,” according to publisher Valiant Entertainment. Ahead of the first release of a trio of new launches that make up the Year of Valiant, Newsarama had the chance to put those …
Read More »Meet the GTA modder bringing The Sopranos to Liberty City
The year is 1998. There’s an evidence board hanging on the wall of an LCPD detective’s office. A mess of red string weaves between black and white photographs of the fiercest and most feared crime families in all of Liberty City. And they’re all there. The Leones, the Ciprianis, and …
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