Far Cry 5 is coming at the end of this month, bringing the series’ brand of humour and action to Montana. To celebrate its release, we’re giving away a genuinely life-changing prize. To note, it won’t necessarily be life-changing for the actual winner. The winner will not only win a collector's edition, but will also sponsor a guide dog's training for 18 months.
Where’s the PlayStation 5, or are we in for another repeat of the PlayStation 3 era that lasted a good couple of years longer than the regular hardware refresh cycle? Maybe not, because it sounds like the PlayStation 5 rumours are going to start picking up steam soon. That’s according to the sometimes accurate, sometimes not scoops of industry insider Marcus Sellers, who claims that developers are currently playing around with dev kits of the PlayStation 5 console.
Rainbow Six Siege is having a chuffing good week thanks to its latest expansion event, Outbreak. A horde mode of grotesque zombies that pile wave after wave of mutilated monstrosities on you and your team, Outbreak is exactly the kind of mad content that is keeping Rainbow Six Siege alive and popular.
Far Cry 5 is leaning heavier on the craziness ahead of its launch, in a manner that would make Vaas Montenegro proud as its Arcade mode will allow players to drop plenty of assets from ye olde Ubisoft games such as Watch Dogs_2 and Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag into its map editor.
Heavy, yet light. Thoughtful yet bombastic. It’s a caveat of video games, because that’s just how they are. That’s how games like Far Cry 5 are structured, as they need to not only tell a good story, but give players of multiple demographics something fun to play.
Ubisoft has had it up to here with abusive and toxic behaviour on Rainbow Six Siege, and they're not going to take that behaviour somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep.
It’s the strangest feeling to begin Far Cry 5 with the ultimate evil, the ‘last boss’, in custody, your hand resting on his bare shoulder. The intimacy is eerie. You expect that this can only go badly wrong, and it does.
Far Cry 5's new short fim might jsut come off as a prequel to market the game. But given the climate it launches into, it feels like a very real take on America right now.
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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