Game of Thrones Bella Ramsey, who ll respectively play Joel and Ellie for HBO s TV adaptation of
The Last of Us, there s also been big casting grabs for the upcoming
Borderlands movie, as well as the rebooted
On top of that, some of gaming s biggest names have come with a few surprises of their own.
Final Fantasy XIV is heading to the PS5 along with the huge new
Endwalker expansion, E3 is making plans for a long-awaited return, and Insomniac Games next-gen PS5 scorcher
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart now has a definite release date. Built from the ground up for the PS5, the PlayStation exclusive is warping our way on June 11, with pre-orders going live as of this week.
Release date: Coming soon
Final Fantasy seems to be returning to its more traditional roots for the sixteenth mainline game of the series. The new installment is set in the medieval-esque realm of Valisthea a world littered with towering Mothercrystals that grant power and prosperity to the kingdoms surrounding them. However, the fragile peace between the different factions is threatened when a blight begins to engulf the land. Clive Rosfield finds himself amidst this chaos, as he seeks to protect his little brother Joshua. We see him both as a young knight and as an adult bent on revenge, although we are not told what put him on the latter path.
Game of the Year: #9 - Marvel s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
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Insomniac Games has got this whole superhero thing figured out, hasn’t it? Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales doesn’t stray particularly far from its 2018 debut, but that doesn’t make it any less worthy of its position on our list. This is gaming comfort food of the best possible kind: an engaging coming of age tale starring a relatable protagonist and some of the finest open world traversal you’ll find on any format.
Miles Morales may be unfathomably cool, but his rags-to-riches story of self-belief hits all the right notes. With a running time of around 10 hours, this return to New York City is a lot lighter than Peter Parker’s escapade, but it still packs a punch narratively. The developer brilliantly tangles some of its own ideas into Marvel’s existing lore, making for a story that’s both personal and bombastic; the studio knows when to tone things down, and when to up the ante again.
Back in 2014, spurred by the reboot of
Ms. Marvel, I tried getting into comics. Here was a brown girl growing up with strict immigrant parents, cast into a heroic role typically reserved for white Americans. I saw myself in her, in ways in which I never connected with the multimillion-dollar Marvel machine that was pumping out comic book movies left and right. It made me hungry for more but not the safe brand of straightforward superheroes that sold countless movie tickets.
I wanted more people like Ms. Marvel, characters who redefined and challenged what it meant to be a hero. I was especially drawn to characters who wanted to be a force for good despite complex cultural identities that cast a long shadow of responsibility over their heads. Any first-generation kid straddling the line between the old world and the new already knows what it’s like to have a secret identity, has already had the burden of an entire community resting on their shoulders. For some of us, the probl
Marvel s Spider-Man: Remastered Update Adds Surprise Feature
Marvel s Spider-Man:
Remastered update has added a surprise new feature to the game. Taking to Twitter, Insomniac Games community director, James Stevenson, revealed that with the new 1.002 update, which was pushed today, Marvel s Spider-Man: Remastered now has a performance ray tracing mode, which is to say a mode that supports both 60 fps and ray tracing, something fans been asking for since it was released.
At the moment of publishing, it s unclear if this is all the update does or whether or not it requires a download. And if it does, we don t know how big the file size is. All Stevenson says is the update is now available and that it adds the aforementioned option.