Metareview: Call of Duty – Advanced Warfare

I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. As it turns out, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare isn’t advanced enough to feature pre-frag life-flashing, but at least you get to respawn and run and bounce around its futuristic world, over...

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Robin Hood stealth game Volume stars actor Andy Serkis

Volume, the stealthy follow-up to Mike Bithell’s Thomas Was Alone, stars famed character actor Andy Serkis as the main antagonist – the powerful and dastardly CEO, Guy Gisborne. Serkis is best known for portraying Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films, though he also starred in The Prestige and...

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Evolve alpha uncaged on PS4 following firmware troubles

It’s late to the hunting party, but the PS4 is finally up and running in Evolve’s “Big Alpha” test. 2K also announced it’s extending the closed alpha until 12PM PT tomorrow, November 4 (3PM ET, 8PM UK), and that’s not just for PS4 but Xbox One and PC too. After...

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Sunset Overdrive fails to derail FIFA 15 in this week’s UK charts

We’re used to FIFA reigning over UK charts like, well, rain over UK chaps (and chapettes), but this is plainly ridiculous. FIFA 15 is up to six weeks in a row already as the British best-seller, seeing off one major launch after another like it just doesn’t care – and...

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Telltale’s Game of Thrones teases are getting graphic

Telltale Games has tweeted another teaser for Game of Thrones: A Telltale Game Series, its upcoming video game adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels. “There’s squids in the Wolfswood, and flayed men ride the Kingsroad,” reads the newest promo image, which prominently features a...

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