Super Mario Odyssey does away with the concept of lives. Mario never loses lives in Odyssey, just some of his hard earned cash. Translation: When Mario’s HP is reduced to zero or he falls off the stage, he loses 10 coins. Even if you fall with 9 coins or less, you won’t get a game over. Check out our central hub for more Super Mario Odyssey info, and watch more than an hour of Super Mario Odyssey in action from E3.

The trouble with announcing Assassin’s Creed Origins so close to its October 27 release date is that you only have a few months to sell it. Fortunately, director Ashraf Ismail is quite freely answering questions on Twitter, covering everything from level caps to hidden blades, rain to animal taming. Here’s some of the more interesting things he’s clarified:Level cap is 40July 1, 2017There is an ability for it, yesJuly 2, 2017Quests are everywhere! Lots of hidden ones tooJuly 2, 2017With time and

Now admittedly, it’s not preferable to an Xbox 360 controller, or even better, and Xbox One Elite controller; we’ll explain why in a bit. How to use the PS4 controller without software1.Use a Micro USB cable to plug the PS4 controller into your PCSimple enough, right? This will let you use the PS4 DualShock controller with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. Is a PS4 controller better than an Xbox 360 controller for playing PC games? The PS4 controller has a far superior D-pad compared to th

The main heroes and villains from most of the numbered Final Fantasy games makes the cut, right up to Noctis from Final Fantasy 15, if an Amazon listing is to be believed , and even Ace from the more obscure Type-0. “We have prepared a good length of cutscenes, and so it’s much more than you’d expect from just a fighting game.” This is because we wanted more people to enjoy the battles of Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT compared to the arcade version.” They want every addition to feel genuine, becaus

Nintendo Switch owners will be pleased, then, that FIFA 18 is launching on the system. There’s only one real omission from FIFA 18 on Nintendo Switch, but it’s a major one: The Journey, the story-based mode introduced in FIFA 17, will not be included. But this was arguably the last time that a Nintendo console established itself as a go-to platform for football games. You’d be hard-pressed to find any football game fan who enjoyed wrangling with the Wiimote-based control schemes to play them, th

Game of Thrones season 7 is promising a lot: more battles, longer episodes and, maybe, just maybe a more stabby Sansa Stark. Sophie Turner, the actress who plays the eldest Stark child, has revealed she wants to get a bit more hands-on, in the most brutal way possible. I want more kills!”Turner doesn’t stop there, oh no. Ideally, I’d like her to get her revenge on Cersei and many of the others who have done her wrong.”Sansa Stark is an odd one in Thrones. Here’s hoping she can get her hands dirt

A year after it was first teased at E3 2016, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus has been confirmed as being very much A Thing. Although that said, Wolfenstein 2 still packs a ton of heavy, emotional drama into the carnage, just as the first game did. You are going to shoot a lot of Nazis in the gut before smashing their faces in on your wheels. Grab the Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus Collectors Edition right here for $99.99 (in the US). Grab the Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus Collectors Edition right her

Spider-Man: Homecoming (and its many, many trailers) is full to the brim with fantastic scenes but – minor spoilers for the movie here – there’s one iconic scene from the trailers that didn’t make the final cut. The scene in question involves that shot in the trailers of Iron Man and Spider-Man swooping over Queens. It screams take all my money but, unfortunately, was MIA in the finished product. Let’s use that as a backdrop.’ Because we couldn’t just create a whole new shot, so let’s just use o

The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy lies somewhere between remaster and remake, which is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, you have all-new models and sound to make the game feel fresh and presentable to a contemporary audience. Ever since the game’s release, fans have been lamenting on social media that the game feels harder than they remember. Don’t feel bad if you’re struggling with the N. Sane Trilogy. While none of these changes make the game impossible, it certainly makes some

It wouldn’t be a Call of Duty game without zombies, and CoD: WW2 developer Sledgehammer Games knows that. So on July 20, we’ll be getting a look at how the studio behind Advanced Warfare will integrate the undead into an new version of the much-loved Zombies mode. If the reveal is anything like the ones in years past, expect a slick trailer, some gameplay footage, and big-name celebrity involvement. Don’t forget, now that Treyarch’s Zombies story arc is done, this will be an all-new storyline –

PlayStation Trophies have taken an astoundingly long time to sync from your console to your PSN account ever since they were first introduced on PS3. If you enjoy sharing your in-game accomplishments online, you are intimately familiar with the “Syncing Trophies with PSN” loading screen. After all these years, Sony says it has finally sped up the process. Your trophies will now sync much quicker than ever before on your PS4, so it’ll be easier to show off your achievements! pic.twitter.com/bUhMZ

Just weeks after GTA 5 parent company Take-Two shut down OpenIV, the game’s most popular modding tool has returned with a go-ahead from the powers that be. Much of OpenIV’s recent development was driven by the team’s other flagship project: “Liberty City in GTA 5”, an extensive conversion of GTA 4’s NYC-inspired setting for use in GTA 5. It’s a shame, but at least modders have clear guidelines to work from now to ensure their hard work won’t be torn down by angry lawyers. Will the return of Open

With The Tower destroyed, Bungie needed to give players a new social space to chill at between missions. That new space is The Farm. The space will change and evolve as you progressThe Tower was a fine enough locale, but other than special holiday events, it was pretty static and unchanging. That apparently won’t be the case with The Farm, as Bungie mentions adding new NPCs and visual changes as you progress through the story. About the only thing The Farm doesn’t have is Grimoire Cards, and I d

And then Hollywood decided that the single most scary thing for our blockbuster protagonists to face was… a massive, swirling LED dust storm thing. A billowing smoke stack of embers like your dad’s just done a particularly shit job with the bonfire on Fireworks’ Night? the lovechild of angry fog and glow sticks) and Wonder Woman jettisoned her tangible adversary for a levitating cinder flurry. Each month Total Film magazine argues a polarising movie opinion and gives you the opportunity to agr

That’s good for us fans who don’t want to be spoiled, but it can lead to awkward situations for the actors involved. Case in point: there is a scene in the movie where Tom Holland fights someone, but even he doesn’t know who. I’m trying to act with a tennis ball and I don’t know what the person looks like.” It sounds like a stressful environment, but Holland seems like the type to not let it bother him. Hope you’re ready to see plenty more of Tom Holland though, because he’s signed on for at lea

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is the latest game to reinforce the old wisdom: where there’s a PC test, there are copious leaks to be found. But we can look at how he fought in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) for some hints. Rey’s Star Wars Battlefront 2 incarnation will play up her burgeoning skills as a Force-powered manipulator. I’m glad DICE isn’t going full “prequel trilogy tiny Force ninja” Yoda in Star Wars Battlefront 2. For more updates, read our full Star Wa

First Burt Reynolds was the mayor of Steelport in Saints Row: The Third, now its indirect successor Agents of Mayhem will let good ol’ Johnny Gat live out his dreams as Magnum, P.I. Developer Volition revealed a new trailer that shows off Gat’s cosplay skin from the Day One Edition’s “Legal Action Pending” DLC and all it’s missing is an appearance from Tom Selleck himself. Knowing Volition, though, any cameo is possible. Read more about how Agents of Mayhem is trying to set itself apart as a sin

This reimagining of Assassin’s Creed as a PS1 game is so good I’m almost having false memories of playing it. Everything from the fogging, to the little spinny memory card save icon is just so on point. It’s the work of 98DEMAKE, who we featured before, explaining how he creates these retro versions of old games. We also held a vote on what to do next, and you lot chose Assassin’s. Look at what you made happen and then check out 98DEMAKE’s channel for more retro action.

As a restless, weak-kneed bon vivant, I suspect I probably wouldn’t make it through the Agency’s stringent vetting process. But that’s the challenge my OXM handlers have assigned me: to pull off the perfect assassination on the Sapienza level of Hitman. My first target is Silvio Caruso, a bioengineer who lives and works within a tightly-guarded mansion-cum-laboratory. You see, I’ve noticed that this store faces directly onto the Caruso estate, and what’s more, it’s connected to the town’s clock

With Game of Thrones season 7 upon us it’s time to take a quick refresher on some of the show’s more complex aspects: the current status of alliances, enmities, and the consequences of these relationships. The current status of every Game of Thrones characterAlliance #1 – Daenerys’ armyWho is in it? Can’t see Tyrion or Varys failing to make it to season 8 – they’re too popular and interesting to die in season 7. Blood will be shed, and a number of baddos will have to die in season 7 or else we’l