Tag Archives: Open world

Despite PlayStation claiming a quitter year for first-party releases, the announcement of a full fledged Astro Bot game for the PS5 during the company’s last State of Play took many by surprise in the best way. While the upcoming 3D platformer is keeping things more traditional with a set of …

Sega has already confirmed plans to bring back its classic driving game, Crazy Taxi. While the original game was primarily a single-player experience, Sega's reimagining will see a greater focus on multiplayer and open-world mechanics, taking inspiration from popular racers like Forza Horizon.  In a recent development update, the team …

Amazon Games has been signing some key partnerships recently with third-party developers. A couple of months on from agreeing to publish the next AAA Tomb Raider game from Crystal Dynamics, Amazon has now announced a new partnership with Maverick Games, a studio created by former Playground Games veterans, and yes, …

We recently learned that Star Wars Outlaws has begun getting ratings from classification boards in various countries, a process that typically takes place within months of a game's planned release. Official news on the game's impending launch will be with us soon, as a new trailer is due to drop …

While Capcom did a great job keeping things quiet for the unveiling of Resident Evil 7, since then, there have been numerous leaks that have spoiled elements of Resident Evil Village, as well as the Remakes, including RE2, RE3 and RE4. The latest leaks are now beginning to swirl, focusing …

While Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launched with a widely praised multiplayer mode, its single-player campaign left a lot to be desired. The campaign ditched the structured missions of previous COD campaigns and instead opted for 'open world missions'. Now, it appears that this will not be a one-off occurrence. 

Earlier this month, EA officially introduced its new studio, Cliffhanger Games, led by former Monolith Productions head, Kevin Stephens. The studio's first project is an original Black Panther game, but we still know very little details about the project officially. Through new job listings, we now know that this will …

LEGO 2K Drive isn't your average racing game. Instead of a straightforward racing game where you fight to be the first to cross the finish line, LEGO's new racing game takes a more “adventurous” approach, offering an open world to explore. IGN was the first to publish the story, but …

The Forza Horizon series has managed over the course of a few years to become one of the premiere franchises for Microsoft and Xbox. Developed by Playground Games, the studio is currently tasked with working on the latest Fable game. In the wake of this, Forza Horizon’s Creative Director – …

CD Projekt Red learned a lot after making the first Witcher game. While that title is looked back on fondly by hardcore fans of the series, it is inaccessible to most due to never getting a console release, not to mention the outdated visuals and gameplay. Fortunately, a remake is …

Turn-based combat used to be a staple of the Final Fantasy series, but with Final Fantasy XIV and the Final Fantasy VII Remake, Square Enix chose to move towards a flashier action combat system. Final Fantasy 16 will continue this tradition, in part to win over a younger audience.  As …

The Terminator franchise has seen its tumultuous reputation rise and fall across all mediums, from films to video games. Following on from 2019’s well-received Terminator Resistance, an open-world survival game set in the Terminator universe has now been announced. The 2022 Nacon Connect game showcase recently concluded, showing off and …

In recent months, fresh rumours have been building around a new Splinter Cell game. Over the summer, Ubisoft reportedly greenlit a new game in the series, which will apparently take the franchise in a new open world direction. We may have slight confirmation of this now from Ubisoft itself, as …

In recent months, fresh rumours have been building around a new Splinter Cell game. Over the summer, Ubisoft reportedly greenlit a new game in the series, and this week, we learned that it is likely going to transform the series into an open world game.  Back in October, we learned …

Recently we reported that Quantic Dreams is currently working on a Star Wars game. At the time, we postulated on what the game could be about and how it would fit into the Quantic Dream formula. New information has now leaked, revealing that this game will stray far away from …

Over the last few years, developers from Valve's SteamWorks forum have regularly leaked upcoming sales dates. Now, Valve is done trying to hide upcoming sales and is announcing them publicly ahead of time. This all starts with the “Steam Open World” sale, which will take place next month. In a …

We've known for a while now that a new BioShock game is in the works and now thanks to some new job listings, we have some new details on what to expect. Currently, it looks like BioShock 4 is going to be an open world game with a less linear …

During an announcement stream this afternoon, The Pokémon Company revealed a release date for Pokémon Snap, Diamond and Pearl remakes and the next big Pokémon title from Game Freak – Pokémon Legends Arceus.  Pokémon Snap was announced for the Nintendo Switch last year and is now releasing on the 30th …

At this point, a Diablo IV reveal is all but officially announced for Blizzcon this weekend, with several leaks indicating that Blizzard has plenty to announce in the immediate future. Now on the eve of Blizzcon, another mysterious leak has popped up, detailing Diablo IV's art style and tonal shift …

As promised a couple of weeks ago, today the Nintendo channel went live with a Direct stream focused entirely on Pokemon Sword and Shield. Not only did we get a better look at the world of the new game and some of the key Pokemon but we were also introduced …

Scum aims to evolve the MMO survival scene with insane levels of customisation, where your knowledge of the environment and efficiency with survival will be the difference between life and death. So how long will you survive? Gamepires and Croteam are the studios behind Scum, released on 29th August 2018 …

Today we present part two of our Red Dead Redemption gameplay. This time around, we spend more time exploring the huge open world, as well as the different customisation options you get.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally out! Over the weekend, BoMenzzz checked it out on PS4, providing lengthy gameplay and first impressions.

Free running games set in a contemporary universe are always about the city. Even ones set in the near future like Mirror's Edge and Dying light are focused on leaping from roof top to roof top, but when everyone's dead (really dead, not zombie dead), maybe it's possible to go …

Eiji Aonuma, the man behind almost every Zelda game since Ocarina of Time, has been talking up the latest entry in the series, set to release sometime this year on the Wii U. He previously stated that the game would feature revamped puzzle solving and exploration mechanics, utilising a more …

If you were a fan of Sleeping Dogs when it first came out back in 2012, then chances are, you've been eagerly awaiting a sequel for quite a while. Well, we have some good news and bad news- United Front Games is set to announce its PC exclusive follow up …

There's been a bit of a glut of online survival games as of late, often pitting players against zombies, or strange demons and even dinosaurs, but in each of those instances you're playing as a human, usually a contemporary one: not so in WiLD. Despite its irritating capitalisation, WiLD is …

Survival horror is the latest vogue genre of development and there's some great examples of it, whether you're looking at a single player experience like Don't Starve, or the hugely popular multiplayer ones like DayZ and Rust. However apart from DayZ, which is mostly based on a real location, they're …

EA Canada is currently looking for an art director to join the development team behind an open world Star Wars game for the Xbox One and Playstation 4, a job listing has revealed. If you were worried, it's not just EA Canada searching. Visceral Games, the studio behind Dead Space …

Crytek, the development group responsible for one of the most beautiful game engines to date, Cryengine, and subsequent games Crysis and the original Farcry, have challenged software makers to create a programme that could use open source street maps to render open world environments, in turn saving on development time. …