Amidst the long confusion and angst over lootboxes, including some looming federal investigations and head-scratching arguments of definition courtesy of EA, The Coalition has gotten ahead of it all by informing players that Gears 5 will not have lootboxes (or Gear Packs, as they were called in Gears of War 4). The Coalition took to its community website to explain of how […]

“We are working with live animals here. These are pretty much impossible to script.” And with that our tour begins, a slow pan across the milling crowds, past the education center—and then, giraffes. Three or four wander the first enclosure, heads peeking up past the walls. One splays its legs, pausing to take a drink from the pond. Nearby, a […]

GameCentral plays the Xbox’s newest exclusive and talks to its creator about DmC, punching people online, and being bought by Microsoft. A lot of people were hoping for multiple new game announcements from Microsoft’s E3 conference and while technically they did get them, they were all for the Xbox One and there was nothing exclusively for Project Scarlett. In hindsight […]

Hold up Guardians, Don’t try searching for Xur right now as he’s not yet live in the game. The cloaked clerk should re-appear later on today at 11am PST, 2pm EST, 6pm BST and 7pm CET this evening. When the Agent of the Nine does return to the game you’ll find him hunched over in one of his usual haunts from across […]

At South By Southwest earlier this year, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka spilled the news that the next mainline Sonic the Hedgehog game was in development. I met up with Iizuka at E3 last week and asked about the future of the franchise. When I ask directly about the game mentioned at the South By Southwest panel, he’s evasive, saying […]

2019 marked an odd year for E3, with former fixture Sony’s absence and the rise of streaming-focused game tech front-and-center. However, as always, gaming’s biggest trade show played its pivotal role in laying out what we can expect from the rest of this year and next. Whether brutal first-person shooters, imaginative platformers, or ambitious RPGs are your jam, there was something special […]

Monster Hunter World fans are waiting for the release of the Iceborne beta. The Monster Hunter World Iceborne beta is available exclusively for PlayStation Plus subscribers on June 21. The Iceborne beta has an 11am BST start time in the UK, and ends a few days later on June 24. Capcom will follow this up with a second beta test […]

Strangely enough, the game also retains the voice work and music of the original, which creates this jarring quality disconnect. If I was taught anything during my three semesters of film school – it was that audio is always more important than visuals – the opposite is true here, and it’s a fairly obvious black mark on the experience. Whilst […]

Monster Hunter Icebourne’s beta is due to start soon. We’re going to see players’ first experience of the Monster Hunter World expansion drop on Friday morning for UK players, and very early in the morning for US players. With this new beta, we’re going to see the game follow a similar schedule to its prelaunch campaign: we’ll be seeing two […]

During the NHL Awards tonight in Las Vegas, EA Sports officially announced NHL 20, and the developer is promising some big changes for this year’s instalment across gameplay, presentation, modes, and more. It appears to be one of the biggest and most substantial changes to the NHL series in years. EA released a lot of details about NHL 20, and […]