Mass Effect: Andromeda would be better if BioWare had taken more cues from Dragon Age 2. When I first played it, Dragon Age 2 struck me as the very definition of a 7/10 game. But here’s the thing: let Dragon Age 2 into your heart, and it’s wonderful. Perhaps the best Dragon Age game, and certainly one of BioWare’s finest settings. Finally, there’s the most obvious common ground of all: every Dragon Age game is a reboot.

Mimic is the one ability in Prey that everyone has fixated on, and for good reason – there are so few games in this world that let you turn into a coffee mug or banana. But there’s a lot more you can do with the genetic and neural modifications that Arkane’s sci-fi world has to offer. You can create firebombs, teleport yourself a short distance, or just become really good at repairing and hacking. Confuse foes with a doppelgangerUse Phantom Shift to teleport a short distance and leave behind a f

The first trailer for this year’s IT adaptation is here and it looks pretty incredible. Yet even from this short glimpse, we can see it’s also brave enough to construct its own scares too. The opening few seconds as Georgie follows his boat down the street immediately sets the tone for what’s in store. The sign for Jackson street overhead, his yellow rain slicker, everything screams dread as you know exactly what’s waiting in that storm drain. If you were afraid in the 80s, this modern horror ve

Star Wars Rebels underwent a dramatic transformation between its first and third seasons. Put simply, it’s everything that made the original Star Wars a success. In the wake of its excellent two part season finale, here are the questions i have heading into Star Wars Rebels season 4. How does Rebels tie into Rey’s story in Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Yes, Star Wars Rebels takes place roughly two generations before Star Wars: The Last Jedi , but that doesn’t mean Rey and Kylo Ren’s story doesn’t ha

Attendees of CinemaCon 2017 were treated to something really special this week: the first footage of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. But in that brief window, fans described what sounds like Rey training to become a proper Jedi. Disney’s clip show featured a few frames from The Last Jedi – Rey igniting the lightsaber and spinning around. !March 29, 2017Just saw a short glimpse of Star Wars: The Last Jedi footage in a sizzle reel. Rey holding the lightsaber ignited, and her moving the rocks.March 29, 2

A Faster Home menu, thank goodnessMicrosoft has finally gotten the lead out of Xbox One’s system interface. There are also the usual design tweaks, and now if you don’t have a custom background set, it will change to reflect the game you’re playing. While there might be a 10 or 20 second delay between the streamer and viewer on Twitch, Beam has “sub-second latency.” You can use Beam to broadcast from your Xbox One as soon as you get the update. Hopefully that momentum will help give Xbox One Pro

It wasn’t until Battlefield 1 that we felt we had both an angle and a game that fit the mode very well. “We did extensive research with Battlefield 1 – more than with any other Battlefield game – by actually visiting the places from the war. Modes that rely on these fair and often intimate battles – like Operations, Frontlines, and BF fave Conquest – rely on having everything else as neatly balanced as possible. “We always do dual monitoring for game balance,” says Gustavsson. Perhaps that’s one

Get ready to fight back the tears as we revisit the most heartbreaking deaths in superhero movies. At least we still have him in the X-Men movies. Why it’s heartbreaking: Batman rushes to save Rachel, but thanks to the Joker’s scheming he’s tricked into rescuing Harvey instead. Why it’s heartbreaking: Peter unwrapping his gift end of the film to reveal his mother’s goodbye letter to ‘Star-Lord’ and an Awesome Mix Vol. Jean GreyThe movie: X-Men 2 (2003)The death: Jean Grey heroically sacrificing

We’ve had little more than a few promo images and set photos of The Dark Tower so far, but it looks like we’ll finally be getting a trailer soon. Lots of cool fantasy/action elementsMarch 28, 2017I know nothing about The Dark Tower books, so the trailer is a totally unbiased look for me. -@idriselba w/ some WICKED gunslinger skills in the 1st #TheDarkTower trailer#CinemaCon pic.twitter.com/MgN0XtR1q5March 28, 2017The Dark Tower has a truly epic feel. A cool sequence involving Gunslinger shooting

Has there ever been a less exhilarating message in gaming than “concept art 63 unlocked”? No more are concept art, character models and sound test tracks acceptable rewards in gaming. It’s time for developers to show a little invention and bring us more substantial goodies that better suit modern technology. My plan is for some sort of website where you can register and receive your rewards as you collect unlockables in the game. Then here’s my secret weapon: instead of concept art galleries and

Been tempted by the Oculus Rift VR headset but been put off by the price? From today until April 4, EVE: Valkyrie has 50% off making it £22.99, Elite Dangerous is now £29.99, and Project Cars is down to £19.99. The best of the bunch though is the 1 year anniversary bundle that includes 11 launch titles for a one-off fee for £69.99. This bundles up EVE: Valkyrie, Project Cars, RPG Chronos, Radial G: Racing and even the brilliant multiplayer bomb defusing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. Here are

Spoilers, spoilers everywhere. Game of Thrones season 7 slip-ups can come from anywhere: set photos, a leaked synopsis, and very nearly Jamie Lannister himself. In a recent interview Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays the one-handed Lannister, almost revealed what sounds suspiciously like Jaime’s main role in the new season of Thrones. Wow, I was about to reveal something from Season 7 and thought, ‘What am I doing?’”Does it tell us much? Game of Thrones season 7 will debut July 16 on HBO in the U

Think ‘Star Wars blooper’ and there’s a good chance that you’ll immediately think of that hapless Stormtrooper hitting his head in A New Hope. Continuing the tradition of mishaps in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars: Rogue One had a K-2SO-related blooper that somehow made it into the final cut. As reported by ComicBook.com, the scene in question involves Kaytoo ‘escorting’ Cassian and Jyn so they could get out of Jedha. When K-2SO is questioned by Imperial forces he really gets into role by smac

SPOILER WARNING: I’m going to be dropping a metric-ton of spoilers for the X-Men comics’ House of M storyline and the X-Men: Endangered Species collection. It’s time for the X-Men movie franchise to take a cue from Logan director James Mangold and do a hard reset. The comic books have long suffered from the same issues the now bloated X-Men universe is dealing with, and hidden within their pages is the answer which will save the movie franchise. Turning back to the comics, the mutants aren’t goi

Don’t get too used to seeing Tom Holland’s Spider-Man swinging his way through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, because there’s a chance he might be leaving the MCU sooner than we’d all like. As you probably know, Spider-Man: Homecoming is taking place in the MCU because of a deal struck by three companies: Sony Pictures (who owns the cinematic rights to the character), Marvel Studios, and Disney. Just because that sequel might be the end of Spider-Man in the MCU doesn’t mean it’s the end of Tom H

Disney has unveiled a new featurette for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and buried alongside some explosive new footage, there’s a hint that Captain Jack Sparrow could be encountering the son of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Turner (Keira Knightley). No, not the explosion in the city square (though that did look kind of cool) – the subtitle for Brenton Thwaites’ character. It reads “Henry Turner,” which sounds an awful lot like he could be the son of the original t

Love it or hate it (okay let’s be honest, nobody loved it), Peter Dinklage’s performance as Ghost was one of the defining features of vanilla Destiny. A new easter egg has been added to the game, and it’s apparently quite easy to access. According to Reddit, all you need to do is complete the mission The Dark Within, and Ghost will deliver his infamous “That Wizard came from the moon” line with Dinklage’s voice. Then he’ll clear his… throat… (does Ghost have a throat?) Just make sure you don’t

Prey is one of those games that’s all about choice, and not just the kind you make from a list of dialogue options. Confound a robot with your Nerf gun then hack itTechnically speaking the Huntress Boltcaster doesn’t do any damage, and is only good for distractions or pushing buttons from afar. But it has to be at least a little perplexing for a robot to get a foam dart right in its face-ish area, right? Tease an alien with your double then light them on fireThis combo is the ultimate twofer: th

Everyone’s favorite snarky robot has a starring role in a freshly released Destiny 2 teaser trailer, which seems to confirm previous theories about the Tower and City coming under siege from Cabal forces. But don’t let me spoil the fun of watching it for yourself:While Nathan Fillion manages to make the end of the world seem pretty fun, this teaser sadly doesn’t have many details on what to expect in terms of gameplay or features. Thankfully, a full, proper Destiny 2 reveal trailer is just aroun

If you looked at Dwayne Johnson and Karen Gillan all dressed up for their roles in Jumanji and thought, “dang, they look like a couple of video game characters”, congratulations! A presentation at CinemaCon (via Deadline) revealed that the film, fully titled Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, trades in the old “magic board game” premise for a body-swapping video game. The film’s cast of teenage characters control the four adventurers portrayed by Johnson, Gillan, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black, which e