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I think we’re facing a pretty dire situation in the videogame reviews industry – not because of the standard of writing, but due to people’s expectation that anything sitting around the 5/10 mark will be ‘a bad game’. No, a 5/10 is a middling, mediocre, ‘good for the right person’ type of game. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, however, is a truly bad game, so much so that it’s maddening that it even exists and was put on store shelves at such a high price tag. But, if you love bad movies and playing ridiculously poor games, it’s under…
What Leon Kennedy wants, Leon Kennedy gets, is what I say after seeing what that weathered and unbelievably handsome soldier goes through in Resident Evil Requiem. And, Capcom, what Leon wants is a remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica. You know what to do.In conversation with PC Gamer, Leon Kennedy actor Nick Apostolides made the case not for Resident Evil 5 to be remade, or Resident Evil 6, but the series’ brilliantly punishing 2000 Dreamcast middle child, Code Veronica.”I would like to see a Code Veronica get remade because that, to me, was a very challenging game,” says Apostolides. “But…
War Machine director and co-writer Patrick Hughes says the upcoming Netflix sci-fi action thriller needed to feel like a nightmare come to life.”To me, it was paramount,” Hughes tells GamesRadar+, when asked how important it was to make the movie feel as realistic as humanly possible. “And that was part of the push. Obviously, we have a visual effects VFX component to the film, but everything else was just 100% real, which meant it was real world locations in the real world wilderness, with real world actors doing real world stunts, and then being able to combine that then, we…
Even those ardently apathetic to roguelike deckbuilders (hi, that’s me) can’t help but admire Slay the Spire (hello, also me). Hardcore genre fans have been waiting over half a decade for the sequel, but Slay the Spire 2 is finally here – and already outperforming both its predecessor and every other big new release on Steam.Slay the Spire 2 hit Steam Early Access today and, as SteamDB shows, quickly reached a peak of 165,423 concurrent players – a number that’s continuing to rise. For comparison, the original Slay the Spire built its stature at a much slower pace. Its concurrent…
Prepare for Xbox Project Helix, Microsoft’s codename for its next-gen console.Newly appointed Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma has just teased her first project as former Xbox boss Phil Spencer’s controversial heir, and it’s a big one. Sharma writes in a March 5 Twitter announcement that Xbox Project Helix is the “next generation console” among a number of examples displaying Microsoft’s “commitment to the return of Xbox.” “Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games,” Sharma says, confirming reports of a hybrid machine. “Looking forward to chatting about this more with partners and studios at my…
Why wait for GTA 6 to get your heisting fix? Turnip Boy Robs a Bank is free right now thanks to the Epic Games Store, and I’m going to give it a wholehearted recommendation. Keeping all the offbeat charm that made the original Turnip Boy so beloved, but evolving the gameplay into an action roguelike reminiscent of Enter The Gungeon, the Snoozy Kazoo shoot-’em-up has earned itself an ‘overwhelmingly positive’ rating on Steam, and now you can grab a copy on Epic without spending a thing. Freebies are always good news, but sometimes the free Epic Games deliver a true…
The Butcher has been terrifying Diablo players for three decades now, famous for randomly sprinting up to players and slaughtering them in the middle of dungeons, but soon he’ll be a lot less scary… because you’ll be able to control him.Announced today during Blizzard’s developer update livestream, Diablo 4’s new season is titled the Season of Slaughter. As it turns out, that’s an apt name for a season in which one of the big highlights is that you can “become The Butcher.””As The Butcher, you wield brutal powers that for decades have inspired terror,” Blizzard says in an accompanying news…
The latest round of Crimson Desert previews has struck up fresh division, this time about the ability to speed up its cutscenes. The vast open-world game from Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss has finally snowballed from cautiously optimistic previews to a ‘can’t put it back in the box’ level of hype that has brought me full circle to worrying whether it can possibly live up to people’s expectations. The question splitting fans today: is the ability to fast-forward its dialog a sign that the story won’t be up to scratch, or a welcome concession for a game that’s expected…
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is now playing in theaters, and star Cillian Murphy says that the long-gestating movie was designed to close the book on his time as Tommy Shelby.Speaking to GamesRadar+ at a press event in London, the Oppenheimer Oscar winner shared his thoughts on his final outing as anti-hero Tommy Shelby, 13 years after first donning the famous flat cap. “We’d been talking about making a film for a long time,” Murphy begins. “And then we were going to do series 7, and then the pandemic happened, and that put the kibosh on that. And then the…
I love a game with a strong vision. I’m not talking about aesthetics here, or a dedication to an ethos; I’m talking about cheese. Mouse PI For Hire is a game that knows its cheese. It has cheese oozing through its pores, and every time I meet someone named Cornelius Stilton or Jack Pepper, I know it’s going to be a gouda time. Sorry. Mouse PI is a 2.5D (the characters are 2D sprites, the environments are not) first-person shooter about a private detective who also happens to be a mouse. The cast is mostly mice, actually, with a small…