Posts By Mat Growcott

Still hungry to play EA's latest Sim City, but have been angrily holding your ground, refusing to buy it, after learning that it required you to be always online? Well, after some big promises and a lot of lies about what the cloud was doing in the background, the publisher has announced that Sim City will soon be playable offline.

Last week, Bethesda accidentally teased their fanbase with the unveiling of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One edition of Skyrim. The community went mad, some wondering why it was a necessary addition to new generation machines, others excited to once again explore a now refreshed, graphically improved land. Unfortunately, it isn't going to happen.

Sony Online Entertainment are working on a set of unannounced games, some of which CEO John Smedley claims PS2 players "might just like". With Everquest Next handling the main Everquest line going forward, it might just be that Sony are looking to revive the Champions series.

Square Enix have today announced that Final Fantasy XIV will be having a free login weekend over the next few days for EU-based players.

Planetside 2 on PC is a fantastic game, and those that love it enough to subscribe are going to see some changes over the next few months. Instead of the 500SC they've been recieving each month as a reward, they'll instead be able to choose any one item up to 2000SC. On the surface this seems like a fantastic deal, but it's worried some long term fans. CEO John Smedley jumped on Reddit to clarify the changes:

The first of this weeks "Reading Trophies" has us looking at last year's top hit Grand Theft Auto V. It was, at launch, a single player game but has since had its multiplayer component, Grand Theft Auto Online, activated, and there's trophies for both the online and single player portions of the game.

Survival games don't generally tend to be about survival. They tend to be about avoiding pitfalls and dangerous enemies. That's largely because, let's face it, actual survival - the drinking pee, eating rats, building shelter sort of survival - just isn't fun in a video game. Except it is. Don't Starve proves that, done right, simply making it through a week on your own can be incredibly rewarding, and addictive.

Alien: Isolation is most certainly a survival horror game, but you won't spend all of your time dodging the Xenomorth. There will be moments of intense "action" where you must survive being hunted, and then down periods as well.

Alien: Isolation looks fantastic, there's little room for debate on that matter, but people are still worried that the reality might not live up to that original trailer. And rightly so: SEGA (or Gearbox, more so) screwed up in a big way with Colonial Marines. Isolation isn't some flash in the pan knee-jerk reaction to the hate though, it's been in development for three and a half years, an amount of time that seems rather long.

There are similarities between the various controllers on the market, but there are differences as well. Even when the controllers seem to offer comparable things and be relatively the same size, there may be features that just can't be utilized across every platform. That's why Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be optimized for each different input method, Kojima has confirmed.