Cricket England has teased a new Ashes game coming to consoles later this year.

Jump Force is a stunning explosion of iconic manga characters across decades of publication, all wrapped up in a single package of over the top brawling that is decadent on the outside and ultimately hollow inside when cracked open.

hate the way that fighting games trickle out their character rosters. I loathe the way that there’s a new character trailer every few weeks, formulaically showing off move sets in an easy-to-digest way. I hate how every single fighting game does this, and I hate how every single video game site on the planet covers these things in the same piecemeal way that they’re delivered. I also hate how much of a damned hypocrite I am, because that’s what I’m doing right now.

The spice must flow! For years, that was the mantra of some of the finest real-time strategy games ever made, that happened to be set in the sci-fi fantasy universe of Frank Herbert's Dune series of novels. While Westwood only hopped into the spice wars of Arrakis in 1993 with Dune II, they quickly created a template for tactics that would evolve to glorious new heights in 1998’s Dune 2000 and then reach its pinnacle in Emperor: Battle for Dune. Since then, the series has been largely dormant , resting beneath the sands and waiting for a day when it might be revived once again. That time, is now.

Last night, THQ Nordic – the resurrected company that’s been buying properties and studios on its quest for European game domination – held an Ask me Anything (AMA). There’s nothing unusual about that at all. Developers and people in the industry do those all the time. What raised eyebrows though was exactly where said AMA took place: 8chan.

Looks like Starbreeze’s work in the universe of The Walking Dead has now truly kicked the bucket, as franchise rights owners Skybound Games have decided to flex their muscle and terminate the contract between the two thanks to Overkill’s The Walking Dead game being an absolute disaster.

Bragi Axebiter is his name, and getting incredibly dizzy while spinning his axe into goblin faces is his game. Here’s some footage of the slayer in action. Plus, is that an actual axe in his beard? METAL!

The sub-genre of racing simulators is not one that I bear a special love towards, but it is one that I highly respect. The grand endeavour to achieve absolute realism in a video game, be it from the laws of gravity to the horrors of war, includes perfecting the sensation of an Audi Quattro flying along a forest floor on …