Video: What's new in Dark Souls 2?
Find out how From Software's hard-as-nails adventure has evolved. Dark Souls 2 is often touted as a more 'accessible' game than its predecessor, but what does that actually mean?Click here to read the...
View ArticleHow Sniper Elite 3 is fixing its aim on improvement
First look: Rebellion's hands-off demo attempts to remedy old mistakes. "Observe. Plan. Execute." This was the mantra of Sniper Elite V2, the third-person WWII shooter released by Oxford-based studio...
View ArticleHands-on: Is EA Sports UFC the pound for pound champ?
EA attempts to bring the 'feel' of Fight Night to the Octagon. Want to know what sports games are going to look like on this generation of consoles? Put it this way - in EA Sports UFC you will, we're...
View ArticleBeyond the undead: How the Left 4 Dead team brings boss fights to life with...
Hands-on preview: How Turtle Rock is hoping to take Left 4 Dead to the next level [New gameplay video]. The first mistake you'll make when playing as the monster is to assume you should behave like...
View ArticleHands-on preview: Clouds hang over Infamous Second Son
Sucker Punch's PS4 debut can look beautiful when it wants, but is that enough?. When confronted with the challenge of depicting a Los Angeles flung so far forwards in time that it even made the future...
View ArticleHands-on preview: South Park The Stick Of Truth is super, thanks for asking
It's super, thanks for asking. In fairness, long-time South Park fans have every right to be suspicious. Click here to read the full article
View ArticleNext-gen spectacular: How The Order 1886 is defining the future
Ready At Dawn's PS4 debut carries extraordinary promise. How foolish is it to be amazed by a 'demo' these days? Click here to read the full article
View ArticleHands-on: Wolfenstein The New Order is a stubbornly old-school shooter
Can a singleplayer, narrative-driven shooter succeed in 2014?. It's 2014. Formerly mute lunk BJ Blazkowicz is back, and he has dimensions. Click here to read the full article
View ArticleTrials Fusion shoots for the sky
First play: Redlynx supersizes its dirt-bike platformer. If you're one of the many, many players who became slightly addicted to Trials: Evolution or Trials HD, you'll be familiar with the components...
View ArticleIs Murdered: Soul Suspect worth closer inspection?
Square Enix's next-gen whodunit may look tame, but its concept is wonderfully weird. It can be difficult to reconcile the concept of Murdered: Soul Suspect with the delivery. As a result I've spent as...
View ArticleHands-on: How 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil builds for the future
EA's spin-off is last-gen but forward-thinking. Let's get the heartbreak out of the way in one fell swoop: 1) Chris Smalling is definitely going to Brazil. 2) Ultimately that doesn't matter, because...
View ArticleMetal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes: Does size matter?
Hands on: Kojima Productions cuts its crescendo short. Last month, inside Konami's James Bond-esque mountain base in the Nasu region of Japan, a select group of games media watched one of the company's...
View ArticleMetal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes video preview: From the shadows to the...
A definitive brief on what you get and what it's like. CVG has played through Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and has put together a video preview to give you a proper insight into what Hideo Kojima...
View ArticleHands On: Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition is a mouthful of mayhem
The Metroidvania brawler is muscled new and improved. Guacamelee: Super Turbo Championship Edition delivers exactly what you want - more Guacamelee. If you didn't get the memo that its overzealous...
View ArticleIs Batman: Arkham Knight hiding darker secrets?
Rocksteady shows CVG its fantastical yet familiar finale. Two years on, Batman: Arkham City remains one of the most critically acclaimed video games of all time, and its British developer one of the...
View ArticleHas Elder Scrolls Online done the series justice?
We take a final pre-launch tour of Bethesda's MMO. When it launches for PC and Mac on April 4, The Elder Scrolls Online threatens to become the all-encompassing RPG experience. It attempts to meld the...
View ArticleCan Tom Clancy's The Division fulfil its potential?
A closer look at the new-gen MMO that stole the show at E3. It started with greed. Mere hours after Thanksgiving feasts were gluttonously swallowed, over 200 million Americans swarmed into shopping...
View ArticleBorderlands: The Pre-Sequel is a professionally-made, premium-priced mod
Can 2K Australis convince fans that's what they want?. "Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel" is an awfully ridiculous name and, as confirmed by the skyscraper-sized exclamation-mark in its logo, no one at...
View ArticleThree hours with Watch Dogs: Multiplayer, hacking and insane side-missions
Chicago's big, but how much have you seen before?. Let's assume, just for the time it takes to read 1000 words or so, that you're unimpressed by the cautionary tale of a digitally overrun society...
View ArticleDestiny in our hands: Has Bungie redefined the shooter?
Video preview: First hands-on leaves us hugely impressed. In 2001 Bungie redefined the shooter with Master Chief's Xbox debut, and the Seattle-based studio appears determined to deliver an equally...
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