Best PS4 games to play right now! 2018 has already been a good year for PS4. PlayStation owners have been treated to a handful of great, new games already, including Monster Hunter World - which is the newest addition to this best list - and a decent number of classics are already among the free games on PS Plus. With God of War on the way in April, and the likes of The Last of Us part 2, Spider-Man, and Red Dead Redemption 2 due later in the year, this will be an excellent 12 months for the console. But you want to know what's best to play right now, don't you?Our 25 best PS4 games will show you the cream of the PlayStation crop and help you to make the most out of your beloved console. This list is in ascending order, so it starts at number 25 and works its way up to number one. We've also taken the liberty of letting you know whether the game in question is enhanced for PS4 Pro. For those of you who are a bit stretched on the cash front, we also have the best free PS4 games … [Read more...] about The 25 best PS4 games
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The Battlefield 1 Incursions alpha is PC-only, and you won’t need to own the game to play
The Battlefield 1 Incursions alpha will be exclusive to PC. In an interview we had at Gamescom with David Sirland, the game mode’s producer, we got confirmation that while Battlefield’s new competitive game mode is in its alpha testing stage, it won’t be available on consoles. Check out our list of the best FPS games on PC. While the Incursions alpha will only be available on PC, you won’t actually need to own Battlefield 1, or even play Battlefield games at all, if you want to have a go. It will be region-locked, but if you live in America or western and central Europe, and have access to the internet, you’ll be able to play. Sirland tells us “the closed alpha isn’t for everyone, but we're not locking it, you don't have to own the base game. It’s free to play and test, if you get in, and we want more players to try this out. We want players who maybe don't play Battlefield to have a go at it and give their feedback, good or bad.” … [Read more...] about The Battlefield 1 Incursions alpha is PC-only, and you won’t need to own the game to play
Mobile is burning, and free-to-play binds the hands of devs who want to help
In early March of this year Fireproof released the happy news that we've collectively sold 5.5 million copies of our mobile games The Room and The Room 2 since release.At Fireproof we'd always heard a mobile game had to be a casual, free to download, games-as-a-service title you can play for infinity. This was a problem, as our game was short, dark and grim, had no social or online aspect and contained no in-app purchases or adverts.We also lacked any money to pay for professional Marketing or PR so upon its release you could politely term our expectations as realistic. But backed by a feature on Apple's AppStore our wee game with a £70k budget went on to see success we never could have expected.Commenting on our surprising figures, I tweeted that maybe mobile gaming's war of total monetisation on free-to-play gamers has made the dev community over reliant on "databollocks" while losing sight of how a good game can affect its players. What's wrong with a developer shooting for … [Read more...] about Mobile is burning, and free-to-play binds the hands of devs who want to help
The Future Is Free: Free-to-play takes center stage at E3 2013
The Monday before E3 2013, Microsoft took the stage at its annual press conference and, in the breathless pause after the new Metal Gear trailer, announced a free-to-play game for the Xbox 360. It was a moment that easily showed the importance of free-to-play in the current gaming landscape, and it wasn't the last we would hear of the publishing model during E3.Both Microsoft and Sony loaned valuable E3 floorspace to console-based free-to-play demos. Multiple publishers had free-to-play titles on the show floor, from triple-A houses like Ubisoft to companies more traditionally associated with the model like Zynga. Even Nintendo, long the laggard when it comes to new business paradigms, said it would release a first-party free-to-play game by the end of its fiscal year next March.Polygon found multiple companies at E3 preparing the future of free-to-play. This fast-moving trend, until recently only available on PC and mobile, will be unleashed on console players alongside the newest … [Read more...] about The Future Is Free: Free-to-play takes center stage at E3 2013
You have exactly 12 months to play one of the year’s best board games
The hobby games market has always been a world that creeps forward through subtlety and the clever application of themes. "Paradigm shift" isn't really a term that's used very often. The reasons seem obvious; dice with numbers on them aren't patented, and neither are decks of cards (although tapping cards sort of is).Nevertheless, every so often there are games that cast a long shadow. The last time something big happened in the tabletop world, something that could even closely approximate a paradigm shift, was the release of Risk: Legacy in 2011. Rob Daviau, a tabletop designer who has made more and better Risk variants than practically anyone else, got a crazy idea: What if the game board, as well as the factions at the table, changed with each playthrough of the game?The result was a board game that becomes uniquely your own, one that grows along with its players, bonding them together to tell an epic, collaborative story. For that reason, Risk: Legacy is a masterpiece that ranks … [Read more...] about You have exactly 12 months to play one of the year’s best board games