End of the week, and there’s still gaming news to fill another Gaming News Wrap. Games Yes, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate will have microtransactions Square Enix cans convoluted Deus Ex: Mankind Divided pre-order program Fallout 4 Season Pass available for pre-order on Xbox One “stay tuned” for PC, PS4 Fallout 4 dev team: “We empower people to do what they love”…
If you were hoping Bound by Flame was going to be the next big RPG, you might want to read some reviews before diving in. The reviews have trickled in on Metacritic, and so far, all but one critic posted a worthy score. GameInformer posted a score of 80/100, which is quite a substantially more complimentary than the rest. The…
Good morning. It’s just another gaming news wrap on another day. Not really. It’s got different words, and different videos. So it’s not the same at all. Games Rockstar has detailed a number of additions and updates coming to GTA Online over the next few months. The stand out addition is ‘Heists’, but before that arrives, there will be ‘Capture…
A title that I personally had high hopes for, and it could still be an enjoyable title, but thus far Thief has been received to a lukewarm reception with the critics. The reboot stealth title has score an average of 69/100 on PC, and 70/100 on both the Xbox One and Playstation 4, as per Metacritic. Many of the reviews…
Good morning. How has your first day with GTA V been? GTA V has attained the joint-highest ever Metacritic score of 97 on the PS3 and 98 on the Xbox 360. It’s tied with the previous entry in the series. The Battlefield 4 open beta early access was confirmed for 1 October already, but anyone without early access will be able…
TGIF. Yip. Thank god it’s finished. The week that is. It’s an extra long weekend, so stay safe out there. After you’ve caught up with the gaming news of course. We’ll start off by saying that Battlefield 4 is coming to the PS4 (and the next Xbox). This is reportedly confirmed by EA even though it was not mentioned during…
EA Origin’s head of the service David DeMartini has been talking up the success of the Origin service of late, and despite the year being a difficult one, DeMartini has revealed numbers indicating that the Origin service has been a success story this far. DeMartini boasted to MCV in an interview that over 12 million users have downloaded Origin so far, it’s…
Metacritic has officially crowned the Playstation 3 as the ‘platform of the year’ in their first ever platform rankings… fanboys all around the world will be either crying a little inside or linking the article to everyone on their friends list.
If you don’t know how Metacritic works, they take a weighted average of critic grades and get to an overall score. It sort of works, but with game titles I write the top 3 scores off to being fanboys, the bottom 3 scores off to being haters and then get an average from the scores left, and it does work for me.