With PS4’s anticipated zombie adventure Days Gone delayed until 2019, World War Z is welcoming comparisons with Sony’s single-player game and keen to push its unique four-player online battles against ‘swarms’ of intelligent AI zombies. “WWZ is the only game to offer an online experience with such massive quantities of fast- moving enemies.”, says developer Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch, in an exclusive interview with Official PlayStation Magazine. The zombies will react to the terrain and

It’s one of Game of Thrones’ earliest (and best) mysteries: what does Ned Stark say when he was facing down the executioner’s blade? During an interview with HuffPost, Bean reveals that he was, wait for it, “just saying a prayer.” No incantations, no familial reveals, just praying. “It appears that way, doesn’t it?” teases Bean, who sure sounds like he’s got a HBO hit squad scoped in on him should he reveal anymore. We’ve already had enough of them in Game of Thrones season 7 to last many a wint

Alicia Vikander steps into the well-worn (muddy) boots of everyone’s favourite archaeologist and our Tomb Raider review says, despite its best intentions, it “never unearths gold”. Video game movies notoriously get a bad rap – so how does this fare: is it deserving of a spot on the Mount Rushmore of game adaptations? Tomb Raider’s impressive set pieces – Consequence of Sound“Good action can wallpaper over any number of flaws in these kinds of movie, though, and Tomb Raider has stellar set-pieces

Wednesday is the disappointing, pasty center of the work week sandwich, but that doesn’t stop the news cogs from turning. Or maybe you just want to watch him do some high-kicks in casual fishing attire? It’s coming to PS4 and Xbox One on May 29, but Nintendo Switch owners have been brutally shunned. PVZ 2 gets PVPPlants vs. Zombies 2 dropped in 2013, so either someone handed in their work really late, or EA decided five years later was the perfect time to add a competitive mode. Battlez pits you

Both take place in post-apocalyptic futures laden with synth beats, neon laser beams, and shoulder pads. Because I seriously can’t pick which one I want to show you first, I’m just going to do this alphabetically. Here’s Black Future ’88:The debut title from developer SuperScarySnakes, Black Future ’88 puts you in the dirty, leather (probably spiked) boots of one of five survivors of the apocalypse. Next up is Blazing Chrome:If Black Future ’88 is the video game version of The Running Man, Blazi

We first heard about Shadow of the Tomb Raider back in 2016 when somebody spotted it on a fellow subway rider’s laptop screen . Visit the Tomb Raider website and you’ll see an eclipse-looking illustration over red text that says “March 15th, 2018 6:00am PDT”. The source code says more information, including “pre-order incentives” and different editions, is coming on April 27. No mention in the otherwise revelatory code is made of Crystal Dynamics, the main developer on both previous Tomb Raider

Not only did a listing for “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell 2018” appear on the website, but the details suggest the game will be officially revealed at this year’s E3 convention. Splinter Cell 2018? https://t.co/kMtDX3G3pr(Ubisoft's listing on Amazon Canada) pic.twitter.com/QvLlq0TmZnMarch 13, 2018That said, previous information about the future of Splinter Cell does seem to corroborate with the theory that Ubisoft will be releasing a new installment in the stealth-action franchise this year. At E3

We’ve already found out about Alicia Vikander literally being thrown into a river without a life vest when filming Tomb Raider. Slow-mo sliding, medieval-style rope-pulling and injuries so bad they ended up just being a part of the movie. Remember Lara sliding under the death trap? I was totally blue on the side of my body because I had done it all day in different angles,” Alicia Vikander casually recollects. Lara’s top tip for filming scenes such as those in the tomb where you know you’re gonn

“I didn’t really know what I was working on,” explains Mark Edmonds, gameplay and engine programmer. “I was asked to investigate creating filleted joints for an animated 3D character system. It was great just to be working on my first videogame.”Mark is one of nine original members of the Goldeneye development team interviewed in the new issue of Retro Gamer magazine. The jam-packed issue also contains the making of The Need For Speed, the history of Championship and Football Manager, the origin

If you’ve already gotten your mitts on the Digital Download, you’ll be able to fire up Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s secret cut. Confirmed by director Rian Johnson on Twitter, Star Wars: The Last Jedi comes packed with a score-only cut. Audiophiles everywhere can rejoice, sure, but it’s also going to be a special experience for Star Wars fans. This is the first opportunity to watch a Star Wars movie with no audio, no FX, nothing… except John Williams’ iconic score. This great big list of the best S

In Greece, Tuesdays are considered unlucky – but that can’t be true, because look at all this fabulous news we found for you. One of my favorite things in the new update… hats on your horses. Looks pretty natural, actually pic.twitter.com/K3DtR1pb8eMarch 13, 2018Jeff Goldblum makes Jurassic World Evolution a must playForget the dinosaurs – the true star of Jurassic Park, and the upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, will always be The Goldblum. Now he’s confirmed he’s starring in the PC, Pl

The Star Wars universe is no stranger to the “what if” scenarios proposed by fans. Well wonder no more, because new concept art from the long-ago cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 4 has surfaced, and it’s sure to scratch your alternate universe itch. And no, that’s not a typo – this is allegedly concept art from Star Wars Battlefront 4, despite the fact that Star Wars Battlefront 3 never saw the light of day. Concept art envisions her both as a Jedi and as a Sith:It really is too bad that we’ll ne

I installed the game, played for a while (I had already finished the vanilla campaign back in 2013), and concluded that this is definitely still the best zombie game ever. Let me clarify that I’m not saying State of Decay is the best game with zombies in it. State of Decay makes zombies frightening by focusing on the true threat of an undead apocalypse: every day, there are more of them. By walking the line between ‘harrowing, what-would-you-do survival tale’ and ‘fun video game,’ State of Decay

Ready Player One’s many trailer Easter eggs have been analyzed, and now the movie itself has been screened to select audiences at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Ready Player One dishes out “pop-culture eye candy” – Variety (Unscored)”Have no fear: In ‘Ready Player One,’ there is plenty of vicarious fantasy combat, notably a war of the worlds that features the Iron Giant as well as the red-eyed, gleaming silver Mechagodzilla. Ready Player One mimics video games in the wrong way – io9 (u

Notice how these crowds flow like water, yet each individual moves with robotic, lifeless precision. It looks like a puzzle game, somewhat in the vein of Lemmings, though Japanese development studio tha ltd describe Humanity as a “crowd action game” – whatever that means. I want to see Humanity on Xbox One, PS4, PC, Switch, and more in the near future. There’s nothing violent or grotesque about this game, but I find it to be one of the most unsettling things I’ve watched in recent memory. There’

We already know from an EA investor call that a new Battlefield game is coming in 2018. Speculation is pointing at an October 2018 Battlefield 5 release date, with a full unveiling before E3 (in a similar fashion to BF1). Here’s what we know so far…What’s in the Battlefield 5 leak? There was a rumour that the next Battlefield game would be Bad Company 3, and would head back to the Vietnam war, but that seems to have lost a little credibility along the way. Is Battlefield likely to follow almost

To be clear: you can ONLY play A Way Out in co-op. Once the splashing is over, I (controlling Leo) head off to craft a fishing spear while Josef (controlling Vincent) starts a fire. It’s a simple example of how the co-op works in A Way Out. This isn’t just a game built for two players – it’s a game where two people share a single experience in their own way. If you’re looking for a cool new co-op game, this could be one to splash out (pun definitely intended) on when it launches on March 23, on

What’s been shown by Freeform so far certainly fits that darker, more mysterious tone, with trouble brewing in Bristol Cove as soon as the eponymous Siren, Ryn, shows up. Here’s five more things you need to know about Siren, which premieres on March 29 on Freeform in the US (a UK date is TBC). Her song is hypnoticSimilar to the beautiful sea creatures of legend that lured sailors to their deaths, Ryn’s species possess a hypnotic siren song. “Could they weaponise a mermaid?” Whitesell asks. “What

First there was L.A. Noire’s re-release on the Nintendo Switch, followed by the massive, free expansion for GTA Online, The Doomsday Heist. If a couple of reports, leaks, and rumours are to believed, another Rockstar re-release is shortly on the way this year, too, and it’s called GTA 5: Premium Edition. Even taking this news with a pinch of salt, that means the Premium Edition comes packed with over four years of GTA: Online DLC, including last year’s Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack, which ori

Episode one of The Council – the narrative, episodic game from Big Bad Wolf – knows this very well indeed. Episode one is titled The Mad Ones, which is a pretty ominous indication of the kind of people you’ll be associating with. Around you are people from the highest strata of society: Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington, a Duchess…some of them must know something. More than once I ended up wondering how on earth characters were believing what was coming out of my mouth as my tone was so un