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On October 20, 2016 Rockstar Games debuted the trailer for a new game: Red Dead Redemption 2. The third entry in the publisher’s Red Dead series, the game was marked as a prequel to 2010’s best seller Red Dead Redemption, whose story follows outlaw and gang member Arthur Morgan through the Wild West. The Western-themed adventure was an instant hit, and the second-biggest launch in the history of entertainment; the game shipped over 24 million copies in retail and generating $725 million in sales from its opening weekend. But is Red Dead Redemption 2 one of the best games in…

There are some game developers who are known for creating a single type of game so well that it’s almost impossible for others to get near. Whether it’s From Software’s sublime work on the Souls series or Ubisoft’s superlative sandbox franchise Assassin’s Creed, some studios are undisputed masters of their craft. When they make games, they raise the bar every time and force others to keep up with them. The same could be said for UK-based studio Codemasters. Although Codemasters’ headquarters are in Southam in Stratford-on-Avon, many from the Midlands also like to claim the studio for their own. Wherever…

Sony really has knocked it out of the park when it comes to console gaming. From day one of the original PlayStation’s launch, the company has consistently delivered user-friendly, intuitive, and entertaining gaming experiences. The PS2 was inarguably the console of its generation, and the PS3 continued to iterate on the successes of its predecessor. The PlayStation 4 is another runaway hit, and the PS5 looks set to continue the star-studded reign of the best lineage in gaming. One under-reported aspect of Sony’s consoles is their capacity to stream media content. Whether you’re looking to watch the latest movies or…

If you were to imagine kart racers as dinosaurs, Mario Kart would be a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This monster franchise has held unimpeachable sway over all it surveys since the release of Super Mario Kart way back in 1992. Groups of slightly drunk friends flock to Mario Kart for its easy controls, pick-up-and-play vibe, and cast of colourful, enchanting characters. Over the years, there have of course been pretenders to Mario Kart’s throne. One of these is Crash Team Racing, developed for the original PlayStation. If Mario Kart is a T. Rex, then Crash Team Racing is a Velociraptor. It’s a…

Racing games based on the MotoGP motorcycle class have had a long and fairly bumpy ride. Their humble beginnings can be traced all the way back to the Amstrad CPC and Atari ST with 500cc Grand Prix. Since then, several companies have tried their hand at creating a lasting MotoGP franchise. First, it was up to THQ to deliver the MotoGP racing experience fans wanted. The reins then passed to Namco, then Capcom for a few instalments. Nobody ever quite stuck to it until the current iteration of the franchise, but MotoGP has been relatively stable since 2013. That’s thanks…

Gaming is the perfect way to relax and take a break from your routine. If you enjoy gaming, then having a gaming console would be ideal. Another option is to find a poker site where you will have access to a variety of games. Despite the gaming options available in the consoles, online casino sites take gambling to another level. They have incredible incentives and plenty of games to bet on. Console gamers can also enjoy gambling through the PlayStation 4, which has browsing capability. Gamers can compete with other players globally. Online casino games and PlayStation are similar in…

Looking for a PS4 Arcade Stick? This article explores some of the best available. If you’ve never experienced a fighting game with an arcade stick, you’re definitely missing out. Most one-on-one fighters – Tekken, Street Fighter, Dead or Alive, and the like – are created for arcades first then ported to consoles. That means their controls are usually optimised for arcade-style six- or eight-button configurations rather than the PS4 controller’s four face buttons. Playing with an arcade stick made us “get” one-on-one fighters, and it might do the same for you. That said, it’s not easy to know which ones…

PS4 backwards compatibility is a much  discussed topic within the PS4 community. Read on to find out more. Sony has quite the storied history when it comes to console manufacture. The company’s first venture into the world of video games was the original PlayStation, which was released worldwide between 1994 and 1995. The PlayStation began life as a potential joint venture between Sony and Nintendo. The latter was looking to create a CD addon to its Super Famicom (SNES) console, but the deal fell through, so Sony ended up creating the PlayStation by itself. The rest, as they say, is…

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June is not a traditionally busy month for video game releases. Most major titles tend to aim for either March, when everyone’s wallets have recovered after Christmas, or October-November time just before the Christmas rush. With that said, there’s still plenty to look forward to in the video gaming world this June. Let’s take a look at the top 10 games you should be playing on your PS4 this month. The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr (June 4th) Technically, this one isn’t a standalone, fully-fledged video game. Instead, it’s an expansion pack for Bethesda and ZeniMax’s MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online.…

Grand Theft Auto has quite a lot to answer for. There’s only so many times a series can influence an entire sub-genre, but Grand Theft Auto has managed to do it twice. The first slew of GTA games were top-down crime sandboxes that haven’t aged well, but managed to inspire games like Retro City Rampage. The far more well-known and well-regarded aspect of Grand Theft Auto is the series’ set of 3D outings. From GTA III through to GTA V (there have been quite a few more games than just GTA IV between them), Grand Theft Auto arguably birthed the…

The rumour mill is currently abuzz with potential news about Sony’s next console. An interview given to Wired by PS5 lead architect Mark Cerny has the gaming press wondering what the console will look like and, more crucially, when it will be released. It’s an exciting time to be a Sony fan. As the future comes, though, we must also look to the past, both for remembrance and to learn. What did Sony’s previous consoles look like? We’re still enjoying the high-quality games and hardware offered to us by Sony’s PlayStation 4, but its predecessor is slowly fading into the…

As any gamer knows, one of the key considerations when deciding which console to buy is the list of games available for, and exclusive to, the consoles. The vast majority of game releases are simultaneously available for both Playstation and Xbox. Yet there are some games with which Sony and Microsoft continue to compete, by developing the games so as to be available only on their own console. We know these games as ‘exclusives’, and in the past few years, players and critics alike have noted that the PS exclusives are of considerably better quality. Examples of fairly recent and…

As the old adage goes, an Englishman’s house is his castle. We’re inclusive sorts here, though, so we don’t see why this can’t apply to everyone of every nation, persuasion and place of residence. Building a home from which to base oneself is one of the simplest and most rewarding joys in life, and when you step back from a particularly grueling DIY job and take in the fruits of your labours, you’ll feel all the prouder realising that hard work and dedication got you where you are. Of course, this isn’t a feeling that’s available to everyone. For those…

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Kerbal. Its five-year mission: to attempt to create a spacecraft that is actually capable of leaving the launch pad without immediately exploding or killing the Kerbals within it. To seek out new life and new civilizations, and ask them if they know how to make spacecraft better than we do. To boldly go where no man has gone before, and then to rapidly return to where we came from when we realise we have run out of rocket fuel. Yes, today’s topic of conversation is wonderfully light-hearted physics space…

What’s your favourite JRPG franchise? This is a question that provokes fierce debate among many lovers of the genre. It’s hard to go wrong with Final Fantasy, which has perhaps been steering in the wrong direction in recent years but still boasts a number of classic old-school titles. Alternative fans might plump for the medieval steampunk setting of Breath of Fire, or the modern high-school drama of the Persona franchise. There are plenty of JRPGs out there to choose from if you love the genre, but that means a lot of franchises don’t get a huge amount of love. The…

Post-apocalypse is potentially an incredibly rich setting. The world could end in so many delightfully varied ways that to keep returning to the same blasted desert wasteland seems like a missed opportunity. That said, we’ve had countless excellent games and other media that have taken this setting as a jumping-off point. Fallout, Mad Max, Wasteland…there are plenty of ways to experience the sandy hellscape of a world destroyed by humanity’s hubris. Back in 2011, Bethesda and id Software added RAGE to this ever-expanding list. RAGE took games like Fallout and Borderlands as its starting point and combined their backwater settings…

Remember cheat codes? Back in the days of the NES and SNES, every game had these wonderful, ubiquitous little sequences of button inputs. Whether it was invincibility, extra lives, or every weapon in the game you were after, chances were you could find it through cheat codes. Some games had clever ways to implement them, but for the most part it was just “press a sequence of buttons and get the thing”. Happily, this philosophy has survived throughout the Grand Theft Auto series, and the latest instalment has its fair share of codes too. Obviously, you won’t be able to…

There’s quite a fierce debate among us here regarding whether snooker is a sport or a game. Some of us believe that snooker is too sedentary to be a sport; there isn’t too much physical prowess required to play it, so it’s more of a game. Others believe that it’s absolutely a sport – it’s played competitively, it has its heroes and its villains, and it’s widely televised and syndicated, so it’s a sport. No matter which side you fall on, snooker is a massively popular sport slash game, especially in countries like the United Kingdom where it’s almost become…

Zombies aren’t exactly a new concept. Debatably, the first ever zombie movie was Victor Halperin’s 1932 opus White Zombie, but with 1968’s Night of the Living Dead zombies began to pass into mainstream culture. Since then, we’ve had seminal movies like 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead, as well as games like Resident Evil and wonderful books like World War Z. It’s safe to say that zombies are very much part of our pop cultural awareness nowadays. With that in mind, if a new game or movie or book wants to tackle zombies as its subject matter then…

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Fortnite is one of the most successful gaming releases of all time and it has already raked in billions of dollars for its developer. It shot to prominence by offering a free-to-play battle royale format that captured public imagination around the world and turned it into a cultural phenomenon. The player count remains astonishingly high, despite competition coming from a slew of new rivals, and it does not look in danger of losing its crown any time soon. Here are the key figures behind the record-breaking success that Fortnite has enjoyed: 250 million – the number of players that Fortnite has…

There was a time when every multiplayer game that darkened the doorways of the major consoles had to have a couch element to it. Whether it was a tacked-on mode in which you and your friends battled it out in lacklustre minigames or a fully-implemented co-op campaign, before the online era games were laughed out of the room if they didn’t offer the ability for a couple of friends to really knuckle down and start ruining friendships. Those days are sadly over now, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t games keeping the co-op flame lit. One such game is Outward,…

Time goes by so quickly, doesn’t it? Seems like only yesterday we were heralding the arrival of the PS4, with its sharp angles and clean lines, and waiting for some of the best games and exclusives of the generation to be announced. The truth is, though, that it’s almost been six years (six!) since the 8th generation of gaming graced us with its presence. The PS4 is still going incredibly strong, with games like Devil May Cry 5 and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice showing that there’s still life in the 8th gen yet. Still, it’s probably time to start thinking…

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When the original DOOM was released back in 1993, it caused a real stir in the gaming industry. Developer id Software’s previous game Wolfenstein 3D probably lays claim to being the first true first-person shooter, but DOOM codified many of the tropes we now associate with the genre. That we used to call first-person shooters “DOOM clones” now seems terribly quaint given how far the genre has come since those halcyon days. We’re celebrating the first-person shooter today by looking at 12 of the best FPS games the PS4 has to offer. DOOM After what some would consider a disappointing…

Whether you’re in possession of a base PS4 model, the newer slimline edition, or the monster Pro, we can all agree on one thing: Sony’s beast is damn good-looking. Sleek black lines, angular design and a minimalist aesthetic all combine to create something that just looks great sitting underneath your TV. With that in mind, you’ll want to make sure it’s spotless at all times. Here’s our handy step-by-step guide on how to keep your PS4 looking great without damaging any of its internals (or externals). Before you start to do this, here’s what you’ll need: Two screwdrivers – TR9…

Norse mythology is fertile ground for video games. All the drama and violence of poetic Norse sagas translates perfectly to the immediacy and storytelling heft of a great game; even the language of the Norse peoples lends itself well to gaming (“Gotterdammerung”, “Ragnarok”, et cetera). With this in mind, it’s not unreasonable to expect studios to take inspiration from the stories and sagas of the North Germanic people, and indeed we’ve seen this happen many times recently. From God of War to Jotun and Sundered, Norse mythology has inspired some of the best and brightest titles in recent gaming history…

As a fighting game franchise, Dead or Alive has been unfairly overlooked across its twenty-three year (!) existence. The series has perhaps been better-known for its reliance on fan service and its attempt to titillate its players than for its extremely solid core mechanics, and while it’s true that developer Team Ninja has probably not done itself any favours in this department by courting that element of the fan base, Dead or Alive remains a very solid fighting franchise. The sixth instalment, creatively titled Dead or Alive 6, follows the fifth game in the series after around six years. That’s…

From Pacific Rim to MechWarrior, pop culture has a justifiable fascination with human-piloted mechs. Japanese anime is replete with mech pilots and their adventures, and although movies rarely tread this hallowed ground it has been done at least once or twice (see Transformers and Real Steel for ancillary examples of the genre at work). Who among us hasn’t at some point wanted to drive a giant stomping robot through a horde of snarling bad guys? It’s a universal power fantasy. That’s where BioWare’s latest game, Anthem, comes in. If you’ve been following the pre-release information on this game then you’ll…

Remember Night Trap? If you don’t, it was an “interactive movie game” released in 1992, back in the Sega CD era. The premise of the game was simple, if not a little problematic: you play as a special agent with access to a bank of cameras watching a house full of young girls. Said girls are in danger from robbers, so you must use each camera to trigger traps strategically in order to help the girls escape their pursuers. If you’re thinking that doesn’t sound like a particularly wholesome subject for a video game, you’d be right. That said, there…