Farpoint might be a good VR game, but that doesn’t make it a good shooter
Reviews for the PlayStation VR exclusive, Farpoint, seem to all agree on one thing. While a good use of VR, Farpoint fails to excite as a first-person shooter.
Phantom Dust Remastered is out today, and won’t cost you a cent
Microsoft is keeping their word on the Phantom Dust Remaster, with the game launching on Xbox One and PC tomorrow. And for free too!
One of Dota 2’s most loved casters, Sheever, has been diagnosed with cancer
One of Dota 2's most prominent personalities has revealed she has cancer
Half-Life 2: VR wants you to replay the classic shooter more intimately
Half-Life 2: VR wants to inject the original game with some modern technology, and is seeking support to bring the mod to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
Prey review – A tense and frustrating psychological horror
Prey's strong setting and sense of dread are undercut by its wavering combat and an ultimately disappointing story.
Eight teams through for Mega8’s Winter Dota 2 Cup
The final teams for the Mega8 Winter Dota 2 Cup have been decided.
Games out this week May 15-19 – Injustice, Fire Emblem and yo Cooking momma
Farpoint hyper-jumps onto PSVR, The Surge busts out a tech-heavy stab at the Dark Souls crown and Fire Emblem goes old school this week as May cracks out plenty of new games. Also, a Martha-simulator gets a release.WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?
A second season of Hitman might still be possible
Last week revealed that Square Enix had decided to dump developer IO Interactive and Hitman, because we’re not allowed to have nice things in life. That raised a number of red flags: Was Hitman now properly dead? Would anyone buy the rights to it? Even more worrying: Would one of the best games of 2016 get that second season that IO Interactive had begun building the foundation for throughout the episodic release of Hitman? Maybe!
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