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Platforms: Xbox One, PS4 Reviewed On: Xbox One Developer: Codemasters Publisher: Codemasters Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: Yes Review code supplied free of charge by the publisher T he racing genre can be tricky to innovate in, especially since many of the titles coming out tend to focus more on the realism side of things. Onrush, though, wants to bring back the arcade thrills while also doing something a little different, ditching the normal racing concepts of trying to be ahead of anyone else, finish lines and laps. Instead, it brings in a little bit of Rocket League, a dab of Overwatch and a hell of a lot of destruction derby to create something that acts as a welcome kick in the racing genre’s nads. Overdrive is the main mode of the game and also the best example of what Onrush is all about; two teams of six vehicles collide with the aim being to score points by boosting, and to earn more boost you jump, smash, slide and basically drive like a freaking lunatic that’s tryi...

John Peter Bain July 8, 1984 – May 24, 2018 pic.twitter.com/XchUMNDYXC — TotalBiscuit. (@Totalbiscuit) 24 May 2018   John “TotalBiscuit” Bain has passed away age just 33 following a long battle with cancer. The news hit last night, just a month after he announced on Reddit that he was stepping down as a games critic and that all treatment options had finally been exhausted. He wrote that he knew his time was coming, but I don’t think anyone thought it would be this fast. I can’t imagine what his wife is currently going through. All I can do is offer my sincerest condolences for the passing of someone who I had the utmost respect for. TotalBiscuit, also known as the Cynical Brit, was a tremendous influence on me, the way I tackle reviews and indeed for the formation of this site. I can’t even begin to count the hours I’ve spent listening to his voice as he breaks down triple-A titles and indie games alike in the WTF Is series, and the way he broke everything down was instrumental ...

Platforms: Xbox 360, PC Reviewed On: PC Developer: Marvelous Inc. Publisher: XSEED Games, Marvelous Inc. Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No Review code supplied free of charge by the publisher. There are many games from the Xbox 360 and PS3 generation that never made it to PC but deserved to. For example, despite the pleas of thousands upon thousands of gamers a port of Red Dead Redemption never happened. But when you consider the vast catalogue of titles itching for a PC port Bullet Witch is not something that would spring to mind. This 2006 game was released to fairly middling reviews back in the day, and while it managed to sell a little in Japan it flopped almost entirely in UK. Now, some 12-years later a PC port has been released onto Steam with absolutely no fanfare, little warning and almost nothing in the way of changes. In other words, this is a game that was made on a tight budget, didn’t do very well and has suddenly turned up 12-years later out of the blue. Okay then...

A lot of the Mario Maker levels that go viral are pretty universally deranged. They’re usually levels made in the “kaizo” style, impossibly hard courses for expert-level Mario players to speedrun. It’s easy to see why these are widely shared online: We like spectacle. Mario games are easy to parse—a tiny plumber is running from left to right, and wow, all this stuff is sure trying to kill him! “Master Negotiator” is nothing like that. Its description, by creator Nick Fox, reads: “Negotiate with the goomba, be patient.” As far as viral Mario Maker levels go, it’s not terribly exciting. You start in front of two doors. One’s locked and leads to your goal, the other is open and leads into a house. Inside the house, there’s a Goomba shuffling back and forth on one end of a makeshift table. “Sit down” with the Goomba long enough, and he’ll eventually give you the key you need to finish. I love “Master Negotiator,” not because it’s terribly fun to play—you just sit there for a little less th...

I quite enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey, in the way anyone enjoys trashy novels: secretly and shamefully, with the kind of guilty glee you feel when you eat a whole box of chocolates just because they were there. But its depiction of BDSM in a relationship is incredibly flawed. NSFW warning: Images of nudity and explicit cartoon sexual scenes. The novels’ sexy billionaire antihero, Christian Grey, has more of the hallmarks of an abusive partner than one who wants to engage in consensual dom/sub dynamics. Most importantly: There’s never any aftercare. Grey swans around his mansion calling his girlfriend/sex toy a dirty little slut and yelling at her; it’s never clear where the role-play ends and the respectful relationship begins. As a fantasy, it’s fine; as an instruction manual for bored housewives, it’s damaging. Advertisement Screenshot: Ana Valens Ana Valens’ Blood Pact gets it. Blood Pact, a fiercely queer illustrated porn game made in Twine, tells a short story about accidentally...

Making Sims can take a long time. You have to hand-pick their personality traits and lifetime ambitions, which means you actually have to sit down and think about a particular character to play. That can take a while, and when I’m feeling particular, it’s taken at least an hour. It can be really easy to just pick the same traits over and over when you just want to play a new Sim, but it also means that I have a half dozen nearly identical Sims in my towns. A recent update to The Sims 4 has made this process a lot easier, though, thanks to a little personality quiz. After last week’s update, when you open up Create A Sim, you’ll get a prompt to create your Sim’s “Story,” which does a little more than just picking a few traits for them. It’ll also pick a career and some skills, and sometimes, it’ll make you a vampire. You can still make a Sim the old-fashioned way, and you can also make tweaks to your Sim after you’ve completed the quiz, but after making a few Sims this way, I’ve gained ...

Screenshot: Sony Video game characters love their bows and arrows, but I hate to be the bearer of bad news—almost all of them are terrible at archery. As an archer myself, I’ve had to spend a lot of time teaching and observing the sport, so I thought it might be appropriate to explain why, in real life, some of your favorite arrow-shooting characters at best wouldn’t be able to shoot straight and at worst would severely injure themselves. Link, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Illustration: Nintendo One of the cardinal sins of archery is dry-firing a bow. A dry fire is the process of drawing the bow’s string back and then letting go without an arrow in place. A normal bow draws back to a conservative estimate of 30 to 40 pounds of tension created by the bending of the bow. As such you’re holding those pounds on your fingers. If you let that go without an arrow on it, all that energy comes rushing back into the bow, which could potentially shatter its limbs (the long ends of the bo...

Samurai Shodown is a brutal fighting game, where matches often hinge on landing one good attack. That said, Samurai Shodown also gives players a few cheap ways to mercilessly style on an unsuspecting foe, one example of which blew up spectacularly in a competitor’s face during a major United Kingdom tournament last weekend. VSFighting is arguably the biggest fighting game tournament in England, and as such it featured Samurai Shodown talent from across the globe, many likely trying to get in as much practice as possible ahead of the Evolution Championship Series and its $30,000 pot bonus next month. The bracket featured over 80 players in total, with matches getting much more intense as the event moved into the finals with just 8 competitors remaining. Where many fighting games permanently glue a character’s weapon to their hands, Samurai Shodown is a little different in that the various blades wielded by its roster of fighters are treated as separate entities that can be knocked out o...

Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIF BeamNG, a very fun driving game that’s mostly about destroying cars in the best way possible, now lets you smash stuff up on the streets of Grand Theft Auto 3's Liberty City, without any hassles like health meters or police intervention. Put together by Swift502, it’s a literal port of GTA 3's map, which means you can’t install it via the game’s official mod repository. Instead, you can just download it here and do it manually.