Posts By Mat Growcott

There's a lot of talk, always, about maxing out consoles, about things that were impossible only a few years ago, and the conversation always ends up in the same way. Console wars, endlessly arguing over exclusives. With the current line up though, the pressure is on an innovative favourite to show how originality should be done.

Square Enix have today announced Just Cause 3, to be released in 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

For years, EA have tried to take the battle to Activision and for years they've fallen short. The PR smack talk every year DICE has released a shooter has been intense, and every release does respectfully by almost any measure, except that of Call of Duty.

With Sonic Boom not quite on shelves, it might be a little early to talk about where the franchise is going next. Even so, a possible SEGA leaker may have just shone a light on where the road may take the Blue Blur.

Solid Snake has been on many a mission, but perhaps the fan favourite takes place in the original Metal Gear Solid. One artist has recreated some of the best moments from the game in a way you'll probably never have seen before, in a perfectly designed interactive Shadow Moses image you can explore on your own.

There have been so many Sonic games over the years that few of us consider the few that got away. That's probably fair, as most of them were either terrible ideas or so early in development that we'll never really know anything about them. Still, there was one that constantly got media attention, and that was the SEGA Saturn's Sonic X-treme. Now, almost 20 years after it was supposed to release, everything that was finished is finally going to see the light of day.

November's PlayStation Plus is getting closer and Sony will be about to announce the firm details of it. Instead of posting about it on the blog, they accidentally released a video which was quickly grabbed by fans. This is for the American version of PS+, but EU users may want to start hoping for something a little meatier.

With a new Star Wars film of the horizon and the Battlefront series well on its way to a revival, it's a good time to be a fan of George Lucas's sci-fi classics. Even better news is that it will be getting full support from publisher EA, who have said that it'll be their big first-person shooter of 2015.

Gabe Newell is the billionaire head of the company behind PC distribution platform Steam, and is likely working hard overseeing projects that will very literally define the future of the gaming industry. He also manages to reply to emails sent to him by fans. It doesn’t take a team of secretaries and it doesn’t mean Half-Life 3 is knocked back for each message sent. In an email, Newell explains how he stays in touch with fans. It usually means ...

The power of Mario Kart and the upcoming Super Smash Brothers actually does seem to have had an affect on Wii U sales. For the first time since they've started selling refurbished Wii Us on their website, Nintendo have had to post a notice saying they're completely sold out of consoles.