We’ve played Vertigo Games’ latest zombie shooter. How’s it holding up? Find out in out After The Fall hands-on preview! I know you don’t want to hear it and I sure as heck don’t want to say it, but After The Fall feels like a proof of concept for how the metaverse could work. Yes, […]
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Hands-On With Weird West – A Frontier Worth Exploring
Weird West is the upcoming isometric twin-stick shooter from Wolfeye Studios, a relatively new developer headed by former Prey and Dishonored co-creators. It doesn’t take long to feel their immersive sim handprints. In fact, once you’re through the basics of Weird West’s twin-stick shooter action, the same combat scenario experience in games like Dishonored makes […]
Hands-On With Piepacker, The Retro Streaming Platform That Brings Cartridge Games Online
Gamers of a certain age have a reverence for the bygone era of couch co-op. As fantastic as online services have become, there’s nothing quite like sitting side by side with your pals, swapping cartridges late into the night. Piepacker, a new game streaming platform that launched on Kickstarter this month, has found a way […]
Hands-On: Wraith Is A Visual Powerhouse For Quest
The secret to any good horror experience is not to play your hand too early. When the air of the unknown lingers, tensions skyrocket. That’s where the real scares come from. Interesting, then, that the first hour or so of Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife does tell you quite a lot about Fast Travel Games’ […]
Hands-On With NHL 21’s Retooled Be A Pro Mode
Season after season of just making do, Be A Pro has needed some new lifeblood for years. EA Vancouver finally made the investment in NHL 21 by bringing in new mechanics and upgrading several elements. Expect a more immersive experience that provides more choices in how to evolve your player from inexperienced rookie to top-tier […]
Hands-On With NHL 21’s Retooled Be A Pro Mode
Season after season of just making do, Be A Pro has needed some new lifeblood for years. EA Vancouver finally made the investment in NHL 21 by bringing in new mechanics and upgrading several elements. Expect a more immersive experience that provides more choices in how to evolve your player from inexperienced rookie to top-tier […]
Hands-On: 3 Ways Stride Is A Worthy Mirror's Edge VR Tribute
VR gets its sprint on with Stride later this month. The Mirror’s Edge-inspired free-running game is coming to Early Access in August, but we’ve already taken it for a test run. Stride’s pre-release includes an Endless Mode that has you darting over rooftops, getting as far as you can before either taking a long tumble […]
Hands-on: Apple’s $300+ Magic Keyboards turn iPad Pros into business laptops
When the iPad launched 10 years ago, no one was sure whether tablets would replace laptops — a legitimate business concern for Apple, since cheap iPads might cannibalize and cut into profits from its expensive Macs. Over the years, Apple addressed the issue by releasing “professional” $799 and $999 models, using overpriced accessories to ensure […]
Hands-on: Logitech’s iPad trackpad keyboards create $500 Apple laptops
Ever since last December’s Snapdragon Tech Summit — an event focused on breakthrough mobile chipsets — I’ve been thinking about how critical “old” input peripherals remain in modern devices. Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragons are powerful enough to let tiny smartphones play Xbox One-class games, or enable tablets to run Windows PC apps, but without traditional controllers such […]
Xbox rules out hands-on previews for whole of 2020
All of Microsoft’s announcements for at least this year will be ‘digital-first’, seeming to rule out the possibility of an Xbox Series X hands-on. With everyone hoping that the coronavirus crisis will peak in the next few weeks, Microsoft has quashed any hopes that things will quickly return to normal in terms of gaming events. […]