Thought the New Year was going to bring some respite in your desperate hunt for impossible-to-pack Ultimate Team cards? (Clue: use GR’s FIFA 19 Ultimate Team coins guide to save the required moolah, rather than emptying your bank balance for gold packs.) 9 January will see defenders and De Gea take their place, with the whole team then available in packs across the weekend. As of Tuesday 8 Jan, Mbappe is shifting for 4.2 million, Messi for 5.5 million, and Ronaldo for 9.5 million. FIFA 19 is out

Avengers 4: Endgame might be taking a pretty different route when compared to the normal MCU track to release. At least, according to a big ol’ hint from Kevin Feige when pressed on a recent rumour surrounding Endgame’s marketing. Remember Thor vs. Hulk in Thor: Ragnarok and T’Challa vs. Killmonger in Black Panther? No one knows what is coming – and that’s a big part of why everyone is so excited. I’m looking at you, Mark Ruffalo, and the rest of your castmates who have gotten all blabby about t

Captain Marvel is sure to kick off what should be a rollercoaster of a 2019 for Marvel Studios. Well, the latest Captain Marvel trailer, which debuted during the College Football Championship Game, has done a helluva lot to throw any potential fears to the wayside – and then some. I don’t want to use the G-word, but watch the Captain Marvel trailer above and tell me you don’t get a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe. Now that you mention it…All in all, it’s a brilliant trailer, and one Marvel should

A new short story from Overwatch lead writer Michael Chu is our first real look at the personal life of Jack Morrison, the former leader of Overwatch who now fights crime Punisher-style as Soldier 76. And it turns out Jack used to be in love with a man named Vincent. You can read the piece, titled Bastet, here (it’s only 14 pages complete with several large illustrations). Everything I fought for was to protect people like him… That’s the sacrifice I made.”Should this be notable? in the middle o

So when God of War’s art director, Raf Grassetti, announces a new personal project, people notice – especially when that project is a celebration of one of the other best games of 2018 , Super Smash Bros. Grassetti has been redrawing – or more accurately, sculpting – Super Smash Bros. characters over on his personal Instagram as part of a new art series appropriately titled Super Smash Bros. Remastered. At the time of writing, he’s sculpted five characters: Samus Aran, Breath of the Wild Link, F

If you’re going to defend humanity from hordes of hostile creatures and renegade robots, why not do it in gold-plated style? To kick off its showing at this week’s CES 2019 convention in Las Vegas, Nvidia showed off some exclusive footage from the upcoming Anthem game , BioWare and EA’s third-person Destiny-like full of open-world shooting and looting. While it’s chock full of beautiful-but-boring environment shots full of foliage and god rays, the trailer also showcases plenty of action. You ca

Alien: Blackout has been officially revealed after months of title leaks and speculation, and it’s far from the online shooter we’ve been expecting . Alien: Blackout is coming to iOS and Android on January 24, and it won’t be free-to-play. If you remember the control panel bits of Alien: Isolation, which let you divert power between nodes to create distractions, some of the game interface will look familiar. No spoilers, but Alien: Isolation ended on a sudden cliffhanger, so hopefully we get som

Telltale’s The Walking Dead: Final Season has had a rough time of it – even by game development standards – but its next episode is finally on the verge of release. After the events of Telltale’s original Walking Dead, it’s fascinating to see Clementine fight so ardently to protect her own community of survivors, all while doing her best by Alvin Jr. The trailer also features another Walking Dead mainstay: disguising yourself (read: covering yourself in viscera) to walk amongst the zombie hordes

We’ll take any scrap or morsel of Game of Thrones season 8 at this point – and HBO knows it. The network has served up literally five seconds of new footage from the final Game of Thrones season and, oh boy, is it tense. There’s still no Game of Thrones season 8 trailer to speak of and, honestly, that’s probably a good thing. Let the tongues start wagging and the Game of Thrones theories roll out anew. With all of that obvious tension, Sansa and Dany might not reach the Game of Thrones ending –

Unreal PT is the latest remake of the Hideo Kojima horror experiment, and it’s available on itch.io for free right now. The work took months – and had to be completed alongside college tests and papers – so Gordello found ways to keep himself interested. “There is a lot of conflicting information on how to trigger the ending in the original game,” he explains. If you want to play Unreal PT download it fast before Konami’s legal team wakes up. “I’d like to make an original horror game for my next

If you felt like Hitman 2 didn’t change enough from its predecessor, developer IO Interactive’s Hitman HD Enhanced Collection will – for better or worse – remind you of a different time. The new title for PS4 and Xbox One includes updated versions of Hitman: Blood Money and Hitman: Absolution, featuring refined 4K-ready visuals, better performance, and updated control schemes. ☑️ 4K☑️ 60 FPS☑️ Improved Lighting☑️ Updated Controls☑️ Blood Money + AbsolutionHITMAN HD Enhanced Collection January 11

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Via Street Fighter, Capcom stood atop the 2D fighting pile for the remainder of the Nineties with the popular Street Fighter Alpha series and hardcore-friendly Street Fighter III series. So with decades of hindsight, it’s strange to think that the original Street Fighter game’s characters represented obstacles to overcome. The sweet scienceIf you’ve ever wondered why some people passionately prefer Street Fighter Alpha 3 to its predecessor, or why players of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike didn’t

It’s a tremendously low price for what is essentially the PSVR starter pack and two great games that will get you striding forward into virtual worlds easily, beautifully and without breaking the bank. This is one of the best prices for such a bundle we’ve seen all festive period and is likely to sell out fast. Capitalise quick and you’ll have an extra fun New Year’s Eve party in virtual worlds, and welcome in 2019 by excitingly exploring some of the latest in home gaming tech. Beyond these two

The truly excellent SteelSeries Arctis Pro reduced by about 40% at Currys right now, with the tech retailer selling it for just £149.99 . is is a truly excellent headset, perfect for those that participate in longer online multiplayer sessions or those on any professional or esports scene. The SteelSeries Arctis Pro’s high-res audio system is industry leading in its clarity and range, while the option to bypass your console or PC’s sound processing DAC with SteelSeries’ own GameDAC peripheral ac

The season of giving continues in the sale days after Christmas and this deal offers a smashing way to delve into 4K gaming or an incredible upgrade opportunity for those looking to pounce on the right deal at the right time. The titles included also make this a no-brainer: Forza Horizon 4, Forza Motorsport 7, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and the mighty Red Dead Redemption 2. All these are some of the best games available to play on Xbox One right now. If you didn’t get that Xbox One upgrade o

Toshihiro Nagoshi’s career started in earnest in the formative days of the 3D era, just as Edge was first hitting shelves. Around that time our CEO kept changing, and the newest one asked me why making games cost so much money. When we gave up on making hardware, we knew the GameCube was coming, and when it would be launched. Even though we’d lost the war in the hardware market, I wanted Nintendo to see how great Sega was as a company. Even though we’d tried really hard making games for Sega har

“They saw it almost as a sequential action game,” Manzanares says. Keen to show they were taking their responsibilities seriously, they spent a lot of time carefully modelling, rigging and animating the Nintendo characters. “When we called Nintendo to describe it, we said, we would like to do it, but if you want we only do it with the Rabbids characters. But they were laughing like hell, and they said, ‘No no, please do it, even with our characters’,” Soliani says. “On top of that, we put in a l

The holidays might be a joyous time, but there’s no greater disappointment than unwrapping that final gift and finding you didn’t get the one thing you really wanted. But fear not! The big day may have come and gone but there are still plenty of great prices available on all the major consoles, whether you’re looking for a Nintendo Switch, a PlayStation 4 Pro for some 4K gaming, or the mightiest console of all, the Xbox One X. We’ve hunted down the best deals on each platform and we’ll separate

Sony’s dinky retro console has only been on-sale a month or two, but its price has been slashed in the Amazon Boxing Day sale. You can now grab a PlayStation Classic with 20 games (including Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII and Ridge Racer Type IV) with two wired controllers for only £49.99 (save 45%). Find out what we thought of Sony’s retro console in our PlayStation Classic hands-on review. Looking for a Boxing Day bargain? Our best PS4 Pro deals guide automatically updates with the latest