Could Alvo be VR's answer to Call of Duty?

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  332 words  |  Patria Henriques

Alvo means 'target' in Portuguese but when it comes to hitting its release dates, this multiplayer VR shooter has been consistently wide of the mark. Originally announced in 2017, Alvo was cancelled in 2018 after the developer Mardonpol "lost funding from our investor". Thankfully the project was resurrected later the following year and this week, Alvo has finally launched on PSVR. So, for today's episode of Ian's VR Corner, I'll be putting this much anticipated game through its paces in a special 3 hour live stream which you can watch on the link below, starting at 2pm BST. [Read More]

Cult-classic SNES game ActRaiser has been remastered and is out today

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  244 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

If it's leftfield announcements you're after, how about this one? Cult-classic Super Nintendo game Actraiser is getting the remaster treatment, and you won't have long to wait to play it - it's out now on Switch, PlayStation 4, PC, iOS, and Android. ActRaiser initially released for Super Nintendo back in 1990, drawing praise for its unusual combination of side-scrolling, sword-swinging action-platforming and god-game-like top-down urban planning as players, in the role of the Lord of Light, attempted to save mankind from the evil Lord of Dark. [Read More]

DayZ finally leaves early access next week on PC

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  295 words  |  Patria Henriques

Bohemia Interactive has announced that the PC version of its long-in-development online zombie survival game DayZ will leave early access and launch in its 1.0 guise next week, on December 13th. It's been a lengthy journey for DayZ, of course; the game started life as a fan-made mod for Bohemia's Arma 2 in 2012, and was an almost immediate hit, reaching one million players in the first four months of its release. [Read More]

Fallout: New Vegas dated | Eurogamer.net

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  1 minutes  |  180 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Bethesda Softworks has announced that Fallout: New Vegas will be released on 19th October in the US and on 22nd October in Europe. The news comes alongside the official E3 trailer, which you can watch below. Fallout: New Vegas is due out for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 and has been developed by Obsidian Entertainment. The game's set in the same universe as Fallout 3 but takes us to a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas instead. [Read More]

Far Cry 5 impresses on all consoles - but it's extra special on Xbox One X

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  7 minutes  |  1452 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Ubisoft is comfortably settling into developing for the four current-gen home consoles: hardware that's similar in so many ways, but each paired with a very different level of GPU power. Far Cry 5 has much in common with stablemate Assassin's Creed Origins - we're essentially looking at parity in terms of the visual feature set across the stack of consoles, with resolution the only real point of variation, the differences blurred somewhat thanks to temporal anti-aliasing. [Read More]

Guilty Gear Strive review - finally, a Guilty Gear for all fighting game fans

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  10 minutes  |  2112 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

With Guilty Gear Strive, Arc System Works has made its famously complex fighting game series easier to get into, but no less rewarding. Guilty Gear Strive is quite wonderful. It has gripped me ever since online play was enabled earlier this week. It is finely balanced - each of the 15 characters offering a unique look, attitude and playstyle. And unlike previous Guilty Gear games, which have proven too complex for so many, Strive will show you the door that leads to its brilliance. [Read More]

Hands on with World of Light, a Super Smash Bros. campaign finally worth playing

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  960 words  |  Trudie Dory

Like a round of punches on a sprinting Fox McCloud, the Super Smash Bros. series' various campaign modes have always been hit and miss. Brawl's memorable Subspace Emissary, where your favourite characters teamed up in cutscenes offering the kind of fanservice Avengers movies now feast on, also forced you to slog through lacklustre side-scrolling stages. Smash on 3DS had the decent but forgettable dungeon crawler Smash Run, while Smash on Wii U had board game Smash Tour - the less said about that the better - and now Super Smash Bros. [Read More]

Horizon: Forbidden West is second-biggest PS5 physical game launch so far

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  379 words  |  Trudie Dory

Horizon: Forbidden West has notched up the second-biggest launch for a boxed PlayStation 5 game in the UK, behind console launch title Spider-Man: Miles Morales. PlayStation's open world sequel released on both PS4 and PS5 (as did Miles Morales). 68 percent of its boxed sales were for PS5, meaning a third were for PS4. Horizon: Forbidden West is also the second-largest boxed game launch of the year so far in the UK, with roughly half the physical sales of Nintendo Switch exclusive Pokémon Legends: Arceus. [Read More]

Resident Evil 2 review - a masterly reimagining of a modern classic

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  10 minutes  |  1926 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Capcom finds the perfect middle ground between old and new in this sterling remake. You know you're playing a good Resident Evil game when you need to keep a pen and a piece of scrap paper close at hand. Sitting on the first open page of my notepad, in a frantic scrawl, are rudimentary diagrams with numbers sticking out at odd angles, repeating three letter codes, bizarre rune patterns, abbreviated riddles, safe-cracking combinations, random running tallies, and then sometimes just the odd word, number or phrase followed with a bemused question mark. [Read More]

There's a secret Jedi Force Choke blueprint hidden in Dying Light 2

 Posted on November 13, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  326 words  |  Patria Henriques

There's a blueprint in Dying Light 2 that lets you perform a Star Wars-esque Force Choke on your enemies. Interestingly, unlike some of the other secret blueprints secreted around Dying Light 2's world, this is a secret hidden inside another secret, as you need to access the hidden Doom level in the basement of the VNC skyscraper before you can acquire it the blueprint. If it's a trick you'd like to add to your arsenal, AshesWolf's video above has a full rundown on how to acquire the Dying Force blueprint, which you'll find off a secret passageway hidden behind a wall. [Read More]