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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - pirate's creed
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag preview and interview – pirate life
Ubisoft officially announce this year’s new Assassin’s Creed, with the open world pirate game many fans have been dreaming of for years…
Pinball FX2: Star Wars Pinball (360) – use the flippers, Luke
Pinball FX2: Star Wars Pinball review – Force effect
Zen Studios offers new Star Wars pinball tables based on The Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett, and The Clone Wars. But is the Force with…
Is Rockstar’s secret exclusive going next gen?
Games Inbox: Rockstar’s Agent, Cave shooters, and Tomb Raider accents
Today’s evening Inbox celebrates another weekend of great Reader’s Features, as readers compare the Sony and Microsoft sales…
In space no one can hear you announce a new Alien game
Secret image shows Creative Assembly’s Alien game
The first physical evidence that the makers of Total War are working on an Alien-related tie-in has emerged, via a very blurry screenshot…
West and Zampella in a rare publicity photo (West is the one on the left)
Call Of Duty co-creator Jason West has left Respawn Entertainment?
The story of Infinity Ward’s co-founders seems to have taken another peculiar turn, with rumours suggesting that Jason West hasn’t worked at Respawn since last…

  • Games reviews & previews

    • Lara Croft scriptwriter and heir to the Discworld legacy Rhianna Pratchett at London's Guildhall (Picture: Daniel Lynch)
    Lara Croft 'reduced to a pair of boobs'
    The video games scriptwriter talks about rebooting Tomb Raider, growing up a tomboy and being Sir Terry Pratchett’s daughter
    Real Racing 3
    Real Racing 3 review – pay to play
    EA’s plans for microtransactions have already reached a new low, as the best racer on smartphones is ruined by greed…
    Bit.Trip Presents… Runner2
    Bit.Trip Presents… Runner2 review – home run
    Commander Video returns in a mash-up between retro and modern gaming that is one of the best downloadable games of the year.…
    Watch Dogs
    Watch Dogs PlayStation 4 interview – ‘a new type of gameplay experience’
    GameCentral talks to the producer of one of the PS4’s best-looking new games, about the difficulties of creating a brand new franchise for a brand…
    Year Walk
    Year Walk review – iPhone horror
    The creators of Bumpy Road and Beat Sneak Bandit abandon the cute in favour of the terrifying, in what could be the year’s scariest game…
    Is Sony right to target core gamers?
    PlayStation 4 – An industry analyst’s perspective
    GameCentral speaks to a top games industry analyst about the future of PlayStation and Xbox, and whether they’re in danger of being the last generation…
    Persona 4 Golden (PSV) – the devil inside
    Persona 4 Golden review – the social network
    One of the most acclaimed role-playing games of all-time has been remade on the PS Vita, but is this really the portable’s killer app…
    Tomb Raider
    Tomb Raider review – Lara Croft Begins
    Lara Croft and Tomb Raider are given a complete reboot, but will the new game that results please both new and old fans…
    Will Europe be last as usual?
    Sony Europe PlayStation 4 interview – ‘We haven’t made any decisions yet regarding pricing’
    GameCentral talks to the CEO of Sony Europe about winning over UK gamers and why the PS4 won’t suffer a post-launch games drought…
    Crysis 3
    Crysis 3 review – technical demonstration
    It has some of the best graphics ever seen in a video game, but is that – or the excellent multiplayer - enough to make…
    PlayStation 4 – the only thing we don’t know is what it looks like and how much it costs
    PS4 hardware secrets revealed
    GameCentral examines all the newly announced hardware and online features for the PS4, and the secrets still to be revealed…
    Killzone: Shadow Fall - not necessarily the best of the PlayStation 4
    PlayStation 4 game trailers – from Killzone to DriveClub, Deep Down and Watch Dogs
    GameCentral takes an in-depth look at every tech demo and preview from the PS4 reveal event and gives its verdict on the best games so…
    Tech The PlayStation 4 will soon be with us, will it impress?
    PlayStation 4: A list of demands
    Sony has promised to 'reveal the future' later today, which is brand speak for 'put our latest product on a plinth and have a middle-aged…
    Assassin’s Creed III: The Tyranny Of King Washington - The Infamy
    Assassin’s Creed III: The Tyranny Of King Washington, The Infamy review – alternative history
    The first story expansion for Assassin’s Creed III features a power mad George Washington and invisibility cloaks – but has Connor gone mad or Ubisoft…
    Assassin’s Creed III: The Tyranny Of King Washington - not your normal DLC
    Assassin’s Creed III: The Tyranny Of King Washington interview – the future of DLC
    GameCentral talks to the director of the new Assassin’s Creed III expansion and finds out why he thinks episodic releases are the future of downloadable…
    Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
    Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance review – best served hot
    The creators of Bayonetta present a Metal Gear spin-off that swaps stealth for action and Snake for Raiden – but is it a fair trade…
    After Burner Climax
    After Burner Climax review – come and gone
    One of gaming’s most famous flight sims touches down on iPhone, but is the old arcade game too shallow even for a £2 download…
    The Vex are time-travelling robots
    Destiny Q&A – ‘I absolutely believe we’re going to advance the genre’
    The heads of Bungie and Activision answer questions on the newly announced Destiny, including when the game is due out and on what formats…
    Destiny – who or what is The Traveller?
    Destiny preview – Bungie go from Halo to Shared World Shooter
    The creators of Halo unveil their first new game since leaving Microsoft and going multiformat, but what exactly is Destiny…
    Fist Of The North Star: Ken's Rage 2
    Fist Of The North Star: Ken’s Rage 2 review – don’t get mad
    Mad Max style anime meets Dynasty Warriors’ familiar beat ‘em-up action, but does the unlikely team-up really justify a sequel?…
    Ents & Tech Bayonetta
    Top 10 fanciable female video games characters
    Gents, all alone on Valentine’s with your right hand? Use it to pick up your games controller and make a date with these pixelated screen…
    Watch Dogs – a glimpse of the next gen?
    Next Gen Video Games – The Definitive List
    GameCentral names every Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 game ever announced or rumoured – and tries to sort the truth from the wishful thinking…
    Army Of Two: The Devil’s Cartel – would Michael Bay be proud?
    Army Of Two: The Devil’s Cartel preview and interview – dudebro justice
    EA offers up a third entry in its co-op shooter series, but with a new developer and the use of Battlefield 3’s Frostbite 2 engine…
    Aliens: Colonial Marines
    Aliens: Colonial Marines review – this time it’s war
    James Cameron’s classic action horror gets an interactive sequel by the creators of Borderlands, but how soon will you want it to be game over…
    Special Forces: Team X
    Special Forces: Team X review – dogs of war
    It looks like Borderlands but plays like Gears Of War, but is this new Xbox Live Arcade download as good as either of them…
    Fire Emblem Awakening import review – advanced wars
    Retrovirus review – six degrees of freedom
    Crysis 3 preview and interview – best graphics ever
    Wreck-It Ralph game review – cinematic disaster
    Dead Space 3 review – scare tactics
    Antichamber review – alternative reality