The first details of Call of Duty 2025 — reported to be Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 — have leaked, courtesy of a playtester. And these details have been verified by one of the most reliable sources in the Industry, Tom Henderson. While the name may not suggest it, this year’s COD is reportedly going to be a sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, at least in terms of story, which will be set in 2035 an...[Read More]
Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Last of Us – you can keep ‘em. For me, videogame aesthetics peaked in the ‘90s; instead of photorealism and verisimilitude, games had a visual style that was completely their own. I’m thinking of Wolfenstein 3D, the original Half-Life, and Rise of the Triad; games that looked like games. Originally released in 1993 by Duke Nukem and RoTT maker Apogee, Bio...[Read More]
12th April Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie takes the plunge in The Last of Us Part 2 and enjoys a mobile game that isn't Slice & Dice, and Tom Orry is outsmarted by his son. What have you been playing? Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We've Been Playing archive. The La...[Read More]
Static Media HBO's "The Last of Us" is a tale of a post-apocalyptic world that has been torn asunder by a global infection, caused by a mutant strain of Cordyceps fungus. The Infected turn into various types of hybrid fungus-human monstrosities as the Cordyceps wreaks havoc in their body and brain, starting out as fairly run-of-the-mill rage zombies before b...[Read More]