Modern Warfare 2 Remastered: a campaign classic transitions beautifully to PS4
Posted on January 1, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
Who knew that a Call of Duty campaign that released in 2009 would hold up so well today? Remastered, remade, revamped - developer Beenox delivers an excellent current-gen rendition of one of the all-time great Call of Duty campaigns. With this new rendition of Modern Warfare 2, we get vastly improved modelling and art along with remade cutscenes with new motion capture. On top of a revamped post-process pipeline and HDR support, it's an experience that still holds up today.
[Read More]Moomin musical adventure Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley looks lovely in first trailer
Posted on January 1, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, a new musical adventure based on Tove Jansson's much-loved series of children's stories, just got a first trailer - and it's looking very lovely indeed.
Melody of Moominvalley is being developed by Norwegian studio Hyper Games and promises to take players on a "cosy" adventure in which they'll need to harness the power of music and their trusty harmonica in order to restore nature after the Park Keeper and his minions build hideous parks all over Moominvalley.
[Read More]Nintendo Super NES Classic mini review
Posted on January 1, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
The NES mini was a huge success, but very much a first effort from Nintendo ripe for improvement. Fine for more casual gamers, the experience for enthusiasts was let down by flaws including subpar video scaling, ultra-short controller cords, audio lag and a range of minor emulation issues. The good news is that Nintendo has improved the quality of its emulation, successfully simulated a range of custom, cart-specific hardware in the process and done it all using the same cheap mobile chipset as its predecessor.
[Read More]Red Dead Redemption 2 review - a peerless open world, and a story in the shadow of its predecessor
Posted on January 1, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
An astounding open world unlikely to be rivalled until well into the next gen, saddled by a throughline from the last. As Rockstar gives Red Dead Redemption 2 a belated release on PC, we're republishing our original review of its grand western adventure. We'll have more on the PC version in the coming days from Digital Foundry, and if you're playing and need a hand head to our extensive Red Dead Redemption 2 walkthrough.
[Read More]Spelunky 2 free trial available next week for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers
Posted on January 1, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
Spelunky 2 will be available as a free trial on Nintendo Switch from next week - for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. From 25th May, subscribers will be able to download the full game and access it for a week - until 31st May. This is part of Nintendo's Game Trial series, in which full games are available for free for a limited time. Spelunky 2 sees you exploring the moon in search of your missing family members, with more of the randomised levels, challenges, and treasures of the original.
[Read More]Super Mario Run characters - How to unlock Luigi, Toad, Yoshi, Peach and Toadette
Posted on January 1, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
Super Mario Run's characters are easier to find than you think. While Mario understandably takes centre stage, there are five other playable characters that you can take into the main Tour levels and Toad Rally.
While they all unlock from playing different modes, and some will take longer than others, but you should get them naturally as you put some time into the full World Tour and Toad Rally modes.
[Read More]Destiny 2 Legend of Acrius quest - How to complete the World-Eater and On the Comms quests
Posted on December 31, 2022
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| Trudie Dory
Destiny 2 World-Eater is a mysterious quest you can pick up as you begin to delve into the end game that leads to unlocking the Legend of Acrius Exotic weapon.
You need a bit of luck to see it start, and part of unlocking it is completing the Leviathan Raid - so hope you had a team with you willing to help you along the way.
How do you start the Destiny 2 World-Ender Quest Unlike certain other Exotic weapon quests - such as the Rat King or Mida Multi-Tool - starting the World-Eater quest has a degree of randomness to it.
[Read More]eFootball 2022 season 1 review - too little, too late
Posted on December 31, 2022
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| Fernande Dalal
Despite some added substance and structure, eFootball's good ideas are still buried beneath matchmaking issues, weird decisions, and major gameplay bugs. Poor Ciro Immobile. He must barely be processing his national team’s non-attendance at the World Cup after winning the Euros last year. The last thing he needed was for me to pick him for my Dream Team campaign in eFootball 2022’s Season 1 update. A lone superstar in a squad of 40-something-rated no names, his has been a campaign of frustration and impotent rage.
[Read More]God of War getting 60fps/4K "enhanced performance" graphics mode on PS5
Posted on December 31, 2022
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| Trudie Dory
God of War (the 2018 one, that is) will be getting a welcome visual boost on PS5 tomorrow, 2nd February, courtesy of Sony Santa Monica's new Enhanced Performance Experience update.
As explained in a new developer blog, tomorrow's God of War update will introduce a brand-new default graphics mode option designed to "get the most out of the increased performance capabilities of the PlayStation 5".
Up until now, PlayStation 5 owners playing God of War have been able to take advantage of the two graphics modes introduced in the PlayStation Pro version of the game - one favouring performance, which unlocks the frame rate but restricts resolution to 1080p, and the other offering a checkerboard 4K resolution locked to 30fps.
[Read More]Let's talk about Persona 5's menus
Posted on December 31, 2022
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| Fernande Dalal
Let's talk about Persona 5's menus, because they're great. Ostentatious, audaciously intricate, the spectacle of their existence defies common wisdom. Traditional design sensibilities suggests that menus should be austere, informative, but Persona 5 has transformed its own into a gallery of kinetic art pieces so visually distinctive they're almost the star attraction.
This choice in gorgeously flamboyant aesthetics is hardly surprising. Katsura Hashino, the game's director, explained that it was intended to reflect Persona 5's central theme: a coming-of-age story focusing on youth going their "
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