Technology – Air Current

Some of the best games of the year didn’t come out in 2020

January 14, 2021January 8, 2021mirrorimgnet

I love the ring in Ring Fit Adventure: the way it pulses when positioned correctly for a move; hitting the sweet spot, feeling it tug like a bump in the air. I love the tremble and buzz as you pull hard for a Bow Pull, or go low for a Squat (or a Wide Squat, […]

Eurogamer’s Game of the Year is Hades! And now we chat

January 13, 2021January 8, 2021mirrorimgnet

Hello! And welcome to a special article where a bunch of us sit down to talk about our game of the year. And for 2020, that game is Hades. We hope you enjoy this conversation, and we hope you’re leaving such an unusual year with some good memories of the games you’ve played. Chris Donlan: […]

Runeterra, fold-ins, and the power of print

January 12, 2021January 8, 2021mirrorimgnet

Print can do some really good things. There’s the ritual of browsing the local corner shop looking for something you fancy, the bizarrely thin paper that somehow smells bloody delicious, and front covers screaming at you to pick them up and give them a read. Walking past the magazine section at my local Asda, I […]

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance expansion has a late March 2021 release date

January 11, 2021January 8, 2021mirrorimgnet

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance comes out 31st March 2021, developer Edmund McMillen has announced. The “sequel sized” final expansion for the hugely popular roguelike hits PC via Steam then, with consoles to follow later. The announcement was made via a new trailer, below, which is packed “with nods to the past, present and future”, […]

Long-forgotten PS1 Net Yaroze game Magic Castle comes out over 20 years later

January 10, 2021January 8, 2021mirrorimgnet

Magic Castle is an eye-catching roguelite made on the Net Yaroze platform by a handful of Japanese developers back in 1997. But it never came out – until now. For the uninitiated, Net Yaroze was a Sony project that made available to hobbyist coders a basic version of the PlayStation dev kit for £550. Around […]

Microsoft reminds us Age of Empires 4 is still in the works

January 9, 2021January 8, 2021mirrorimgnet

“RTS development is funny…” Age of Empires 4 – announced over three years ago – is still in the works, and progress is being made, Microsoft has said. At XO19 in November 2019, Microsoft showed off a snippet of Age of Empires 4 in action (check out the video below), but we haven’t heard a […]

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s DMR is so overpowered it’s making Warzone “unplayable”, fans say

January 8, 2021mirrorimgnet

If you’ve been playing Call of Duty: Warzone recently, you’ll no doubt have encountered – or possibly even used yourself – the controversial DMR 14. The DMR 14, a weapon added to the battle royale as part of the integration of Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, is currently dominating the Warzone meta. […]