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Studying WW1 and WW2 in school, one of the hardest things to wrap my head around was the sheer scale. It’s something even the best war games struggle to capture. Battlefield 1 certainly sold the terrifying brutality of being among the action, but can’t easily replicate the relentless battle of attrition. Hearts of Iron 4 conveys size better, but places you above proceedings in a way that feels removed from the real heart of the soldiers fighting in a conflict where no-one’s ever a winner. Foxhole manages to land in that sweet spot, and now it’s taking the next step…
Nioh 3 is a Soulslike, but that doesn’t entirely do justice to Team Ninja’s twitchy mix of samurai and ninja combat against some truly monstrous yokai. The Nioh series (and I include the underrated Wo-Long among those), feels as much of an evolutionary branch of Ninja Gaiden as it is inspired by FromSoftware’s legendary Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls.The genre is dubbed “masocore” by Team Ninja, and trades the super fast power fantasy we loved in our Ninja Gaiden 4 review for action that’s a bit more slower paced and considered. Though, barely slower. In Nioh 3 especially, the developer…
I’ve encountered all manner of enemies in my time playing games, but some really stick with you for just how unsettling they are. Monster Hunter’s Khezu, complete with its silent soundtrack. Bloodborne’s lurching, squelching Brainsuckers. That horrifying baby from Resident Evil Village. Well, Once Human just made the list with the introduction of its biomechanical Devourer, although fortunately it’s also accompanied by a couple of much more adorable (if still dangerous) foes. While Once Human doesn’t pull in the hundreds of thousands of players that it attracted during its launch peak, the free-to-play sci-fi survival game has kept a consistent…
Capcom will reportedly announce its next big Resident Evil remake later this year.That’s according to the reliable sleuth Dusk Golem, who claimed on social media this weekend that later this year, Capcom will unveil a remake of the Dreamcast game, Resident Evil: Code Veronica.Dusk Golem, who has a history of reporting on the Resident Evil series, previously claimed that remakes of Resident Evil Zero and Resident Evil Code Veronica were in development, something VGC also understands to be the case.Originally released in 2000 and overseen by series creator Shinji Mikami, Code Veronica was a Dreamcast exclusive, but later made it…
There was a surge of news surrounding video game adaptations this week. Not only did Sophie Turner get Tomb Raider-ready as Lara Croft, but Amazon also announced their pick to become the former Ghost of Sparta, aka Kratos, in their upcoming God of War series.Former Sons of Anarchy star Ryan Hurst has been announced to take on the live-action version of the role for the show, which is being penned by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, For All Mankind, Outlander). For Hurst, it’s hardly new territory, given that he already went toe-to-toe with Kratos (played by Christopher Judge in the…
If you frequent the cozy game space, there’s little chance you won’t have heard of Heartopia by now. While sandbox players have been foaming over Hytale this week, building houses brick-by-brick, the life game lovers looking for their next Stardew Valley-style fixation have been erecting homes with flat walls, swimming pools, and adorable coffee machines. And though Heartopia is crushing it on mobile, skyrocketing to the top of the app store charts and reaching over five million players, the Steam audience is struggling to take to its pastel-palette charm for some increasingly common mobile-to-PC reasons. A PC release of Heartopia…
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have reunited on screen once again this weekend with their Netflix crime thriller The Rip, and now the Oscar winners have shared some guidelines that were suggested during the film’s development for the streaming service. During an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Damon explained that the go-to route that he and his co-star and longtime friend are used to wasn’t factored in when making a Netflix movie.“The standard way to make an action movie that we learned was, you usually have three set pieces. One in the first act, one in the second, one…
The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for walking around your home, looking for somewhere to install the home security camera you got for your birthday, and realising a) how few unused surfaces actually exist in this space and b) it was pretty stupid to ask for a home security camera when you knew full well its only purpose would be keeping an eye on the cat while you’re out. And she’s the cat equivalent of a human octogenarian. What, exactly, is she going to do, that might…
In a fittingly full-circle sort of way, it’s taken avid Minecraft enjoyers only a couple of days to splice the best parts of the game that inspired Hytale into Hytale, letting those who have waited seven years for what they might call Minecraft 2 play Minecraft in what is not really Minecraft 2. Yes, I’m being serious. And with a general lack of player direction in the new king of sandbox games, that’s no bad thing, either. In a delightfully short tweet, French YouTuber ‘LAirHisson’ proclaims to have “just coded the end in Hytale.” Now, without proper capitalization, the less…
Every so often, DCU co-head and Superman director, James Gunn, dares to battle against the waves of fandom in order to set the record straight. Whether it’s squashing rumors that have gone viral or addressing fans’ demands about the franchise’s future, he’s a director who’s happy to get involved in the conversation and stop it when things go too far.One such incident recently involved more flames being fanned over the possibility of Grant Gustin reprising his role as The Flash after photos surfaced of him with blonde hair. The color change was enough for fans to put two and two…