Will Bedingfield

2 days ago | nme.com | Will Bedingfield

Video games are designed to be played, so being boring is a far more grievous charge than it is in other artforms. As Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima highlighted in his 2023 visit to the Criterion Closet; you wouldn’t be taken very seriously if, after the credits rolled on Yasujirō Ozu’s 1949 masterpiece Late Spring, you said that the classic character study needed a few high-octane bike chases.

1 month ago | nme.com | Will Bedingfield

“In 2020’s Doom Eternal, you felt like a fighter jet,” explained game director Hugo Martin in the run-up to the release of the latest entry in the series that fathered the first person shooter (FPS). “In Doom: The Dark Ages, you’ll be an iron tank.” Thankfully, tanks are fun too! A few caveats aside, developer id Software has pulled off another laudable, ambitious reinvention. READ MORE: ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ is the most fun you’ll have with a game this yearFirst, the plot.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Will Bedingfield

2 hours agoNVIDIA increases DOOM: The Dark Ages performance by 3xDOOM: The Dark Ages has officially entered early access and NVIDIA have released new drivers adding Multi Frame Generation and DLSS 4. Continue …1 hour agoYou Need To Smash Up These Creepy Lion Statues In Doom: The Dark Ages' 'Ancestral Forge' LevelAside from a more ambitious narrative scope, Doom: The Dark Ages also introduced semi open-world areas where you can take in the level at your own …

Feb 19, 2025 | nme.com | Will Bedingfield

In a world where game narratives have increasingly fallen under the influence of HBO’s somber prestige TV tone, it’s refreshing to play something that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Previous Yakuza games have scratched that itch, embracing a hallucinogenically zany brand of soap opera melodrama and slapstick weirdness. Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii is the latest entry – the title alone confirms a return to its irreverent formula.

Jan 8, 2025 | nme.com | Will Bedingfield

You’d be forgiven for counting Indiana Jones dead and buried, much less ready for a return to video games. The modern films form a good enough reason on their own; the acclaim for the Indy-indebted Uncharted series suggests another. Yet, like a certain intrepid explorer braving a notoriously cursed tomb, developer MachineGames has performed the excavation.