Author: Gary Behan

Ubisoft have today detailed the contents of the season pass for the upcoming Far Cry 4. The season pass, which will be priced at £23.99 / €29.99 / $29.99 will include a number of single player and co-op missions along with a number of multiplayer modes. The single player missions include an exclusive mission released on day 1 for people who purchase the season pass. While the season pass can be purchased seperately, it is also included in the “gold edition” of the game and as part of the Ultimate Kyrat edition which  includes among other things, a pretty nifty…

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. A longing for the days gone by, allowing us to revisit things we’ve seen a hundred times before. To this day, I can watch Batman: The Animated Series and still enjoy it. It’s timeless. Similarly, the new Alien game, Alien: Isolation, manages to tap into the tense, gritty atmosphere that places the movie series it’s based on in the  top 3 horror movies ever on IMDB. The game stars Amanda Ripley, an engineer and daughter of the heroine of the Alien movies, Ellen Ripley. She boards a space station called the Sevastopol in order to retrieve…

I leapt from an invisible tower and immediately observed a group of Uruks slave driving some people on top of a cliff. This followed an extremely well done tutorial sequence that had enough emotional weight behind to make me invested in the characters early on and said emotional weight meant I was in no mood to be trifled with. I dispatched of the Uruks with relative ease and within 5 minutes I was in the middle of a camp engaging 4 captains (the “mini-bosses” of the game) who had come together to talk about the weather, complain about their respective bosses, trade human slaves…