Kids doesn’t tell a story so much as it explores the concept of groupthink. As you manage larger and larger crowds of hand-drawn, faceless young people, you probably won’t piece together a coherent plot. However, its theme isn’t subtle; going along with others can be inviting, dangerous, and sometimes your only option. The way Kids uses interactivity to get across […]

We think we’re actually starting to forget exactly how many of these Fortnite Season 9 Fortbyte puzzle pieces we’ve written about now, but safe to say it’s a lot. There are 100 of them after all. Dear lord, we’re only just approaching Week 4 of a possible 10/12 weeks until the start of Fortnite Season 10. That means we’ve got (counts on […]

When it comes to augmented reality (AR) gaming the sector is really heating up in 2019. Forget about Pokemon GO for a moment as titles like Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs and Reality Clash are two of the bigger videogames to arrive this year, with the likes of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Minecraft Earth still to come. Today, London-based developer VisionizAR has revealed its plans for a similar […]

Like other first-person VR games, Ryan is still represented as a pair of disembodied hands. However, you also have holsters for pistols, shotguns and rifles slung on your back, while ammo is strapped to your chest in a ‘weird-but-it-works’ logic. This set-up cleverly gives you more a physical presence than VR games that are only tracking your head and hands. […]

The main appeal of the Switch is being able to take console-quality games anywhere, but something is lost when moving a game from your hands to the TV. YouTuber Chris Salomone has attempted to rectify this by making his own TV stand look like an actual Switch. Note, Salomone hasn’t modified his television in any significant manner; the bulk of his […]

The battle royale genre is a black hole from which no franchise is safe. Since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and DayZ popularized the genre, Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode catapulted it into the zeitgeist, Apex Legends proved the format could adapt, and Tetris 99 extended the philosophy beyond shooters, major gaming studios are turning to “last player standing” gameplay hooks in order to […]

At least in the story mode, there’s some respite from what seems like a very aggressive tactic to push players into buying premium currency. As ever with NetherRealm games, the story takes center stage, and draws on the last three decades of history to compose a story that’s as insane as it is brilliant. We won’t spoil anything here, but […]

What if Red Dead Redemption II was done in the style of The Magnificent Seven? YouTuber USNIM has a channel dedicated to creating film-inspired trailers out of popular video games, and Red Dead Redemption II is the most recent to receive the Hollywood treatment.  The trailer, inspired by the 2016 blockbuster The Magnificent Seven, perfectly captures tone of the film through scenes and dialogue […]

Horror games are often loud and immediate when it comes to the shocks they deliver. Even the more restrained of the genre’s offerings, like Soma and Amnesia, often have indestructible hunters that consistently instill smaller jolts of fright pursuing you. Observation is different, trading pulse-pounding scares for a sense of creeping fear. You play a space station’s artificial intelligence in […]

Another new Fortnite Fortbyte puzzle piece is now live as of Sunday 19th May because clearly Epic Games didn’t think you had enough to be getting on with, in Fortnite Season 9. Today’s brand new puzzle piece is Fortbyte 22 with a clue that reads ‘Accessible by using Rox Spray in an Underpass location’. So gather round Fortnite players. Put aside […]