Earlier this week, Warner Bros. published a new mobile game based on Westworld that has players blatantly disregarding the message of the show and building the best robot-murder theme park they can. One look at the details and images from the game, and anyone who’s played Fallout Shelter can tell its borrowing quite a…
Everyone has a Mario Kart character they consider “the best.” With all the fervor of a kid on a playground, explaining why their Spider-Man toy can totally whip a friend’s Batman toy’s ass, even grown adults will call on every argument in the book to defend their choice of squealing go-kart cartoon.
Assembling video game trailers is tricky business. With the ever-increasing scope and complexity of games, it can be difficult to begin to communicate what a project is in the narrow confines of a sizzle reel. Some publishers stick confidently to what they have and wrap it in a flashy package to get audiences…
E3 is winding down, meaning the big announcements like the new Halo and the new Smash Bros. have already been made, leaving only the announcements that are—to be fair—not as exciting as a new Smash Bros. or a new Halo. One such announcement comes from Telltale Games, the studio behind a lot of well-regarded adventure…
Earlier today, Nintendo devoted 25 whole minutes of its E3 Nintendo Direct news blast to introducing the new Super Smash Bros. for the Switch. The game was teased earlier this year, without so much as even a name reveal, and the company made up for those few months of silence by dropping as many details as the human…
We’ve spent years trying to figure out what Death Stranding is, beyond it being the new game from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and his new Kojima Productions studio, but Sony’s bizarre E3 press conference/performance art presentation finally gave us our best look yet. As it turns out, Death Stranding is a game…
Sony took a unique approach to this year’s big PlayStation E3 showcase, opting to corral its audience into an ominous church tent before letting them into the usual big theater show. It turns out the set was an echo of the first demo of the night: The Last Of Us Part II. The publisher had shared two…
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With Fallout 4 finally giving fans of Bethesda’s massive, open-world adventures their post-apocalypse fix, it was time to start clamoring for a new entry in the studio’s other series, The Elder Scrolls. It’s been nearly seven years since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released and took over the damn world, and now,…
The first big surprise of Bethesda’s E3 2018 showcase is Doom Eternal, a newly announced sequel to 2016’s reboot of the classic series. Just as Doom II: Hell On Earth did back when it built off the original genre-defining shooter, Doom Eternal will be taking the Doom Slayer back to Earth in the wake of a massive…
Microsoft just wrapped up its E3 2018 conference, making a bunch of big announcements and showing off a ton of games that’ll be making their way to Xboxes and PCs in the coming months. We got the standard Microsoft trifecta: a new Halo, a new Forza (Forza Horizon 4, which is set in Britain), and a new Gears Of War …
Microsoft kicked off its E3 presentation with the announcement of a new Halo game, and since the company only has one other series on a similar level as that one, it meant there was a very good chance we’d be seeing Gears Of War by the time the show wrapped up. Sure enough, near the end of the presentation, we got…
Acclaimed Polish game developer CD Projekt Red teased its next RPG, Cyberpunk 2077, way back in 2012 and has remained almost completely silent about the project ever since. With The Witcher III now fully out of its system, the studio is finally returning to its ambitious sci-fi outing. Microsoft’s E3 2018 showcase…
Microsoft has had an issue courting third-party developers recently, with most of the good stuff landing exclusively on PlayStation 4 instead of appearing on Xbox, but during its E3 presentation Microsoft revealed a new trailer from a studio that’s synonymous with “good stuff.” We’re referring to FromSoftware, the …
Microsoft kicked off its E3 2018 showcase with the most teasing of teaser trailers for the next game in the Halo series. It’s called Halo Infinite and, well, that’s about all we know about it. It’s in development at Microsoft’s in-house Halo team, 343 Industries, and whenever it comes out, it’ll be hitting both Xbox…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
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Earlier this week, Wizards Of The Coast published its latest Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook, the monster-filled Mordenkainen’s Tome Of Foes. As is standard with a new D&D manual of monsters, it’s full of all sorts of new creatures, ranging from hideously dangerous to relatively benign. One of its most unsettling new…
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Dooming himself to a life of jokes about chili dogs, “gotta go fast,” and an unsettlingly vast tapestry of diverse and determined internet pornography, actor James Marsden has willingly joined himself to the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise. Specifically, the Westworld star—who’s made a career out of standing handsomely…