In an ideal world, Shenmue III would have launched on the Dreamcast in the early noughties, completing Yu Suzuki’s legendary trilogy. But sadly, this world is neither ideal nor perfect, and so here we are almost twenty years later. Considering many had succumbed to the fact that a third Shenmue was never going to happen, …
With Titanfall/Apex Legends developer Respawn at the helm and no loot boxes to speak of, we’re expecting big things from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. The last single-player focused Star Wars game was a long time ago on a generation far, far, way. It’s also bound to set tills ringing not just because of the …
Death Standing’s divisive reviews have been the talk of gaming town since last Friday. While the 85% Metacritic score is nothing to sniff at, with such words as “stunning†and “epic†being bandied about, it has also been said that it suffers from repetition. So heavily, in fact, that EDGE couldn’t muster the enthusiasm to …
The Switch rules the roost this week, thanks to the launch of Luigi’s Mansion 3 and (by our estimation) eleven other retail releases. Is that a new record? We haven’t been keeping track. A fair few are multi-format releases, we should note, such as Close to the Sun, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD, …
This week certainly isn’t the busiest we’ve seen this year. However, a new Call of Duty is upon us, which makes this week one of the biggest in the gaming calendar almost by default. Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launches Friday, being a “soft reboot†of the Modern Warfare series with a new …
When the sun begins to set on this generation, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and Overwatch will no doubt be referred to as two of the best games this current crop of consoles had to offer. Both head to Switch this week, and while there are some expected visual shortcomings, both allegedly perform surprisingly well …
The first Yooka-Laylee was a modern-day take on the classic N64-style platformer. Instead of jumping straight back into the third dimension for sequel Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, Playtonic Games has turned to the Donkey Kong Country series to create a new buddy-based platformer. It’s far from being the step backwards it may initially seem …
The evenings are drawing in, which means ‘big game season’ is upon us. Right on cue, not one, not two, but three spare time-draining ‘live service’ games are upon us this week, catering for all budgets. Destiny 2: New Light is the new free entry point for the series, launching alongside the £29.99 Destiny 2: …
Konami clearly wanted Contra: Rogue Corps to please everyone, yet it has ended up failing to please anyone at all. It takes plenty of well-worn ideas from similar twin-stick shooters to form an uneven package that’s lacking identity, and that’s despite one of the new playable characters being a panda. The shooter revival arrived to …
The Switch receives its inevitable mid-cycle revamp this week, in the form of the £200 Switch Lite. The handheld only…handheld arrives alongside a slew of new software including The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered, along with the eShop only Castle Crashers Remastered, Untitled Goose Game, …
Rather than provide Borderlands 3 review code to all and sundry, 2K has only let a select handful of critics loose on the eagerly awaited loot shooter. And even then, it was restricted to the PC version, which Kotaku reports was a work in progress build prone to crashing. 2K claims this was down to …
Game Pass subscribers (and those happy to cough up the best part of £70) can play Gears 5 later this week via the Deluxe Edition. Not only does it provide early access – it also includes the Halo: Reach and Terminator Dark Fate character packs, along with a 30-day XP boost. We imagine Sarah Connor …
We’re confident in saying this week is the busiest we’ve seen so far this year, surpassing even that infamous week back in February in which Far Cry New Dawn, Crackdown 3, Jump Force, and Metro Exodus arrived just days apart. The battle for the UK chart top spot will likely be between Remedy’s very well …
Double-Fine bounces back with RAD, a post-apocalyptic roguelike with a funky fresh ‘80s vibe. Despite being gobbled up by Microsoft, it’s launching on all major formats via Bandai-Namco. It isn’t the last multi-format Double-Fine production in the pipeline either – Psychonauts 2 remains multi-format too. Phew! RAD is a fine example why Microsoft acquired the …
It’s saying something when the biggest release of the week is an update to a three-year-old game. Next week isn’t looking particularly riveting either. Perhaps the dreaded summer game drought has finally struck. For those still guessing, No Man’s Sky BEYOND is the biggest thing arriving this week. It’s certainly the biggest update the 2016 …