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The soundtrack of previous Tony Hawk's Pro Skaters were incredibly important. Not only to the game, but also to punk and urban genres when the franchise

PlayStation missed out on Gamescom last week because they said it came too close to E3 and that they wouldn't have much news to share after their big

There has been an avalanche of Destiny news of late, many about radical changes coming toThe Taken King, but a lot of it has left us with more questions

Techland invented the Dead Island series a few years ago, but left their baby to go make sleeper hit Dying Light, instead of taking on Dead Island 2. The

Next week, the already announced 1989 Batmobile and Batsuit will be brought into Arkham Knight for Season Pass holders. The neat  skin pack looks pretty

Mad Max up until this point had been somewhat of an unknown quantity if you are out in the public. I caught it at E3 and even then I came away a little

Mass Effect remains one of the series I care most dearly about. It features a lot of my favourite video game characters, all with their own perks and

Crafting in RPGs can be a mixed bag. Sometimes it can be really rewarding to collect good and make better items, but often, it can fee like a chore and

There has been a cautious feeling surrounding Star Wars: Battlefront since it was announced that the game wouldn't have a dedicated single player

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 has had a rough time of it since it was announced. The game has had fans chastising it for its less than stellar visuals since we

Dying Light is one of the big successes of the year. No one expected too much from the game when it came out in January, but it was actually a ton of fun

He then got the entire internet excited by announcing he was working on Silent Hills with Hideo Kojima, before that entire endeavour went very south as well. Well, he has now told ShackNews that he isn't likely to ever make a video games, citing his bad luck In the interview he said: I have proven to be[...]

Remasters are all the rage at the minute as publishers scramble to get their old classics onto new consoles. It's gotten to the point where many think we

As has been promised for a while, Dying Light is getting a major DLC update which will feature a map as big as all the others in the game combined. On top

Up until this point, there is only one other Ghost variant in Destiny, and it came with the exceedingly expensive Ghost Edition of the game. It was red

The talk of a World of Warcraft 2 has long creeped around on the internet. The mainframe of the original game is already over a decade old, so there might

Last week were were treated to our first looks at Crackdown 3 and Scalebound at Gamescom, which are both Xbox One exclusives coming next year. They fill

 Games like this are important for the medium , even if just for the reason of poking at the seams of what video games can be and what they can be about While I am not entirely convinced the story hangs together as well as it needs to, that doesn't take away from the quaint,[...]

When publishers try to reinforce that celebrities love playing their games, it can feel a little strange. There are exceptions of course, as celebrities

Next week, Call of Duty : Black Ops 3  is getting a beta on PlayStation 4 for players who pre-ordered the game. (It will also be coming to PC and Xbox One

Telltale's Tales From The Borderlands has been getting rave reviews ever since it debuted last year, with each episode being eagerly awaited for by fans.

The possibility of Resident Evil 2 remake has been lingering for the last few weeks as several posts from R&D inside Capcom came out asking if fans

Often, Japanese games have a long period where they launch in their home country, and then weeks, months or sometimes even years, they finally see a

One of the most asked for games on the internet, especially where Blizzard are concerned, is Warcraft 4. The RTS game spun off in to the MMO behemoth we

There has been a news story floating around of late that you will be able to talk down every boss in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. It purported that you'd be

Blizzard have long been the masters at roping in huge money on a month to month basis. Several million users still pay monthly subscriptions to the

I don't think many people actually understand how much work is being done for the Gears of War remake, which is out at the end of this month. This isn't

During the Xbox One reveal event, we heard that Steven Spielberg was going to be involved in bringing a Halo series to life. Last we heard it was going to

We are in a weird state in the games industry now where AAA games are getting high end trailers for betas. But hey, it means we get a decent look at the

There seems to be a strange phenomenon going on in the Dark Souls community. The hardcore have beaten the game so many times, they've started looking for