Fast and Furious fans will love this cracking little animated race game. It’s got lovely cartoony car graphics and is a neon colour explosion on screen, looking particularly stand-out on the Nintendo Switch handheld. Set in a 90’s retro future, Inertial Drift offers twin stick drifting mechanics that allow race fans the chance to motor […]
Among Us 2: Everything We Know So Far
Among Us has experienced explosive, almost unheard-of growth during quarantine. Two years after its release, Among Us has gone from being an under-the-radar local party game to a giant among online multiplayers, standing shoulder to shoulder with Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout in terms of popularity. Twitch streamers can’t get enough of it. Among Us’s simple, […]
NIOH 2 Release Date News – : PS4, Xbox, PC Updates, Demo, Gameplay and more revealed
In case it wasn't already abundantly clear, Nioh and – most likely the upcoming Nioh 2 – will not be coming to Xbox One consoles. According to a tweet put out by the official Koei Tecmo Europe Twitter account, “There are no current plans to bring Nioh to Xbox.” Given that Sony invested some serious […]
How I Cheesed It To The #1 Spot On The Quake 4 Leader Board
The Xbox 360 launch title, Quake 4 featured an achievement titled “Number One”, for reaching the #1 position on the worldwide ranked leaderboards. Yes, this game required players to literally become the top player in the world in order to get the full 1000 Gamerscore, or at least that’s what the developers intended. Many would expect that the […]
How Magical Drop II Made Me Less Of A Quitter
The year was 2003, and I was around ten years old. I was alone in the YMCA daycare center in Winder – a historic Georgia town with NASCAR shops, a bunch of fast food joints, and not much else. It was hard for me to get along with other kids at the time, so I […]
Almost 20 Years Later, You Still Can’t Buy No One Lives Forever
An inherent problem with the gaming industry is the intersection between corporate aspirations and artistic ambition. Nobody will deny that games are art – that’s a moot talking point these days. Yet, much like Hollywood, popular music, or practically any other big-budget entertainment industry, big money investors often muck up the creative process. Sometimes, that […]
Venice VR Expanded: A Festival of Immersive Imagination
The Venice Film Festival has been going on for the past couple of weeks and so has Venice VR Expanded, the immersive digital edition showcasing the latest virtual reality (VR) projects from around the world. Filled with an assortment of films and interactive content it’s been one of the best examples of why a format […]
Warzone Morte – An Interview With Actor Fabio Rovazzi
Morte is the newest operator in Call of Duty: Warzone. A Sergio Leone-inspired gunslinger, Morte serves as a love letter to the spaghetti Western genre — a genre beloved to his voice actor, Italian rapper and entertainer Fabio Rovazzi. We recently had a chance to chat with Rovazzi via Skype, where we discussed Morte, Will […]
NBA 2K21 is a rich, deep baller’s fantasy come true. So was NBA 2K20.
I re-created my NBA 2K20 player’s look in NBA 2K21 with ease, making this year’s story mode look like a direct sequel, albeit one where my guy has gone back to college to work his way up from nothing … again. Same player, same game, same story. For some reason, this still worked for me […]
The Chop Shop: Nier Automata’s Plug-in Chips Allow For Endlessly Inventive Play
Nier: Automata is remarkably strange in a number of ways. From its philosophically inquisitive robots to the fact it has 27 distinct and equally absurd endings — one of which is triggered by eating a fillet of mackerel — it’s a genuinely singular experience. But there’s one thing about Nier: Automata that I still think […]