Though announcements relating to the Pokemon series tend to take place during their own standalone directs these days, the likelihood of hearing at least some Pokemon related news at E3 2021 remained high. Leading up to the event, the series had failed to miss even a single E3 since 2013 , excluding of course, E3 2020 which was cancelled due to the global pandem

One of the most glaring omissions from the PS5 PlayStation Plus Collection lineup is Horizon Zero Dawn . After all, the PS Collection features PS4 exclusives that released more recently than Horizon Zero Dawn , which originally launched all the way back in 2017. Maybe Horizon Zero Dawn 's absence can be explained by Sony not wanting to potentially hurt the sales of the PC port, but whatever the case may be, it seems like an inevitability that Horizon Zero Dawn will join the service at some point down the line. Perhaps fans can hope to see Horizon Zero Dawn come to the PS Plus Collection lineup shortly before Horizon Forbidden West launches in 20

The pairing of an incredibly rate of fire and an augment that shreds through foes, The Red Dragon absolutely has the highest damage-per-second potential of any ranged weapon in the game. This magnificent pistol is acquired by scoring 175 points at the Westcliff Shooting range, which is no easy feat to compl

I’d like to go back to what I mentioned at the beginning of this piece. A month and a bit into Genshin and I’m still signing in on the regular. I’m dying for another Elemental Crucible-esque event where I can partner with random players and character creation systems boot around some hilichurls in all-out cooperative mayhem. I know I can play the rest of the game in co-op, but again — I like the single-player parts being single-player. That’s a great thing about Genshin — it recognizes that balance between experiencing a story on your own and exploring the world around it with other people. I think that would be great for Fable in particular — maybe Bowerstone is an MMO-esque hub where you can flick a switch and all of a sudden, boom! Marketplace, flog your trinkets and bullshit for coin, the more you rip people off the better. Flick the switch back and all of a sudden, boom! NPCs are the only people bothering you, and you can just ignore them if you w

I agree that Fable brings a distinctly single-player narrative experience to mind. Knocking the shit out of Lucien Fairfax is something you want to do on your own terms, in your own space. But despite Fable’s story being good, the best bits were always the parts you got to experience with other people. I didn’t start a new game very often because all I wanted to do was to stay massively overpowered and wreak havoc on Albion with my pals without having to worry about any repercussions. That being said, there eventually came a time and place where I thought, "you know what? Maybe three months of (literally) farting around Fable 2 is enou

What's not to love about the enforcer! Its a late-game monster boasting a damage stat of 177. This crudely shaped blunderbuss is quite difficult to get, requiring an end-game quest to be completed at Gile's Farm. While is is the most powerful ranged weapon in the game statistically, its lack of rapid fire, and absolutely atrocious range prevent it from being the absolute b

There was nothing quite like getting together with your mates and farting in some uppity noble’s face. Let’s have our dogs antagonize everyone in the village while we taunt them from afar. I loved growing great big demon horns and knocking about Bowerstone with people cowering in fear, not because I was especially dangerous or murdery, but because they knew I was going to be as rude as humanly possible before revelling in their misfortune and legging it off to ruin someone else’s

I don’t reckon this option should be everywhere, either. It would be great for some areas to be exclusively single-player. Maybe we could have a designated PvP arena off in the shithole known as Aurora. The main thing here is that it’s a game designed to be experienced as a single-player narrative that takes partial credence from MMO design, where even when you’re on your own you can feel as if you’re playing something with an active and tangible community. This is nice with Genshin, but it would be particularly brilliant for something like Fable, where everything is just — forgive me for using this usually lazy but in this case especially accurate word — _ fun

Sony's decision to once again pass on the expo no doubt played a big part in this, with many PS5 exclusives likely being saved for the company's next State of Play event. The ongoing global pandemic won't have helped much either, with the development of many upcoming games having been hindered by COVID-19 . With any luck, though, updates on some of E3's big name absentees will not be too far a

However, if you’re one of the readers who knows all about Fables but nothing about Batman? I’m not sure such a creature exists, but if you do, I’ve tried my best to make the essential Batman as understandable as can be. We’ll see if I’ve succee