Author: Martin Robinson

[ad_1] Dying Light 2 is an ugly game. Taking place some 15 years after Techland’s parkour-fuelled 2015 open world original, it’s set against a world completely ravaged by the viral outbreak that began back in Harran, where disputes are solved with a rusty iron pipe to the head and the people holed up in the…

[ad_1] KartKraft, the highly acclaimed sim that was so good Motorsport Games went and bought it all up and set up a new Australian studio for some of the team at original developer Black Delta, is finally leaving early access and having its full launch today. Having first hit Steam in 2018, Motorsport Games moved…

[ad_1] Well hi, hello and how do you do? I’m new here, so please don’t bite. Okay, so I’m not exactly new around these parts – my 11th anniversary is going to quickly roll around later this year, and I’m sure a fair few of us will have crossed paths in the past – but…

[ad_1] Stranger of Paradise is a funny old thing. Revealed last year with an eyebrow-raising trailer in which chaos reigned and with a playable demo stumbling out soon after, it soon became the butt of online jokes – though over time and with a little bit of added context a fascinating retelling of the original…

[ad_1] Tinkering with the classics is always asking for trouble. There’s the legion of fans to satiate, the details you daren’t deviate from, the difficulty in making meaningful additions. Tinker with a cult classic and you’re really asking for trouble, those details sacrosanct as scripture to its dedicated followers while any changes are subject to…

[ad_1] Wow indeed. The thunderclap of the news of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn – the largest in the brief history of video games, and grossly overshadowing the $7.5bn Microsoft paid up for Bethesda – is still ringing noisily. The reverberations won’t let up for some time, and right now there’s a scramble…

[ad_1] It’s a month until we get to see the new generation of F1 cars properly unveiled, but ahead of all that this weekend saw the competitive return of reigning champion Max Verstappen as he took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual – perhaps the biggest virtual race of them all, and…

[ad_1] Rolllllling staaaaaaaaaaart! With only a couple of months to go until the launch of Gran Turismo 7 – be still my heart that beats like a piston – Polyphony Digital is revealing some more of what to expect, including a return of an iconic circuit last seen in 2013’s Gran Turismo 6. Which is to…

[ad_1] Cem Bolukbasi, a 23-year-old Turkish racer who started his career in F1’s esport series, has just signed on for a full season in F2, the feeder series that supports motorsport’s top tier and has supplied the likes of Lando Norris, George Russell, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton. Bolukbasi took part in the 2017 and…

[ad_1] SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash, widely regarded as one of the very best games for SNK’s short-lived but much-loved Neo Geo Pocket, has just arrived on the Nintendo Switch. The port follows the likes of King of Fighters R2 and Samurai Shodown! 2 which previously made their way to Nintendo’s hybrid device –…