When cars slide, they leave tyre marks. In a game like Driver, they’re an aesthetic touch, part of the inherent cool of a handbrake turn. But those dark shadows in the road also tell a story. From tyre marks, you can determine the speed of a vehicle, when it started to skid, and its ultimate […]
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Ah, the weekend. Time to put the work week behind us, relax, enjoy the weather, and play some games.Even though you might unwind during the week in the evenings with a gaming session, the weekend is a great time to play games, because you aren’t busy with work, making sure the kids have brushed their […]
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Nintendo’s new amiibo unlock is a no-go. Watch on YouTubeWhile we all await news on Breath of the Wild 2 with bated breath, Nintendo at least has something to keep Zelda fans occupied with the HD remaster release of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD. It’s due out in July, and in the run-up […]
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Look, I know, the combat isn’t great. It’s janky. But if you jump straight to Mass Effect 2, you’re a wrong’un. Watch on YouTubeTo me, it feels like the video game community online is currently in the middle of a glorious time warp back to the early 2010s. High quality remasters like Mass Effect Legendary […]
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Maybe I’m missing something, but Mass Effect Legendary Edition’s new level scaling system has me baffled. Watch on YouTubeThere are a lot of little changes beyond the graphical overhaul present in the new version of 2007 classic Mass Effect that’s included in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the newly-released remaster. These range from changes to the […]
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As Remasters go, the version of the original Mass Effect included in the new Legendary Edition trilogy re-release has to be one of the better ones around.Watch on YouTubeEA and BioWare rightly realized that the original Mass Effect was a creaky, awkward game in many respects – but also understood that many aspects that made […]
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Eat your heart out, Game Boy Printer. Watch on YouTubeThe natural pairing for a photography-focused game like New Pokemon Snap is a device to let you bring your in-game photos into the real world – so I wasn’t actually enormously surprised when Nintendo announced it’d be partnering with Fujifilm to allow images taken on the […]
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At least this has come out of the hell year. This last year has sucked – lockdowns, restrictions, and the general challenges of adjusting to a vastly different status quo have been difficult for many of us. Equally, it’s been an opportunity to explore different things you can do at home – and for many […]
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Delivering a sequel to a beloved game is hard enough. Setting out to create a sequel that’s almost fifteen years late, though? That’s an even bigger challenge. One could argue that the developers behind NEO: The World Ends With You have an even greater challenge than that. The original TWEWY was a cult smash on […]
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New Pokemon Snap is more or less everything a fan of the 1999 original could’ve asked for in a sequel – but its greatest sin, an enforced grind, is a painful one. Watch on YouTubeWhen you look back on the original Pokemon Snap now, it’s difficult not to think it was ahead of its time. […]
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