For so long Call of Duty has been like a spinster at a wedding: alone and without any company whatsoever. It has stood as the singular gold standard for first-person shooters. Unmatched, unrivalled, unparalleled… until now. Because Titanfall is a game changer. In fact, it literally changes the game – it bins any single-player mode and makes it solidly about online multiplayer, meaning you are always battling real foes. Well, as real as online gamers get. Combat is completely

There are two types of games when you launch a console: the one that shows off how pretty the console can make games, and the zany fun one. Knack is the latter – but you’d be hard-pressed to find a more boring game this year. It’s the brainchild of Mark Cerny, essentially the man behind the PS4 itself, and so maybe that explains how such a basic and tiresome platformer made its way onto the system. But as one of only two launch titles, it’s inexplicable. You play a cute littl

The now yearly Assassin’s Creed franchise is back, and this time they’re tackling the age of pirates. Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Pugwash and that one-legged pirate from your LEGO pirate ship as a kid… don’t feature. Bah! Like always, we’re getting some historically accurate stuff. Well, in as much as a game where you can use some techno babble machine to travel back into the memories of your ancestors can ever be seen as Simon bloody Schama. You play Edward Kenway, a high-

Only an idiot would argue the Wii U has had a good first year. Its birth was so messy it resembled John Hurt’s stomach after that alien popped out. Things didn’t get better with a lack of big games, or support from big developers. But they’re turning it around with Super Mario 3D World, a supremely silly four-player platformer that’ll have grinning so hard, you’ll look like Kanye West after he’s spotted Kim Kardashian has just posted an arse ‘selfie’ on Twitter. There’s just