Could Mafia III pull a fast one and release as early as April? Quite a few retailers seem to think so.

Get your first extended lookat Mafia 3 with a full twelve minutes inside New Orleans in the politically tense 1980s.

Wondering just how well Just Cause 3 fairs on console? Seems as though the PS4 version at least manages to keep up with the mayhem Rico can cause.

EA has already put their money where their mouths are, hiring Jade Raymond to make the kinds of games they've mentioned they'd like to do.

There's an incredibly strong push for games to adopt open-world appraoches to their experinces, but this often doesn't mean that the game will immedaitely be better. Rise of the Tomb Raider acts as a perfect lesson about pacing versus freedom.

With so many games going the open-world sandbox route, is it any wonder that gamers are claiming franchise and genre fatigue?

It seems that just about every single game is adopting that open world ethos – even in series that traditionally weren’t; Metal Gear Solid, The Arkham games and The Witcher immediately spring to mind. Is it too much? Are you growing tired of open world games?

Rico has a small military's arsenal at his disposal in Just Cause 3 - but how will you be upgrading every single individual piece of gear?