STACK J#165 Jul 2018

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vaguely like The Song of the Dragonborn , and show in title font The Elder Scrolls VI for an audience to lose its collective mind. It could be five years off for all we know, but it’s coming, and we need it like Solitude Guards need sweet rolls. Spider-Man Insomniac’s new game is looking superb. We played a few web-slinging minutes of Spider-Man and can confirm it will

Destiny 2: Forsaken If you don’t have Destiny 2 , you need to grab a copy so you can play Forsaken . Honestly, the new Gambit mode is so much fun to play, combining PvP and PvE elements for a chaotic battlefield of epic proportions. Oh yeah, and there’s new story and lore stuff too. That can wait.

Halo: Infinite They didn’t even show any gameplay of the next Halo title, but when you see Master Chief on the screen you know it’s about to hit the fan. We know barely anything about the next instalment, and we still can’t wait to play it.

Fallout 76 Almost heaven, West Virginia. The next instalment in the Fallout franchise is headed online, and will serve as a prequel to all the Fallout games we’ve played before. You’ll be able to build and set up shop in the Wasteland wherever you want, but be careful – other settlers you come across may not all be very friendly. Who knows where this multiplayer Fallout will take the future of Bethesda Game Studios’ games.

be ridiculously easy to get lost in this open world for hours. Combat is influenced by Rocksteady's Batman series, which is in no way a bad thing, and the dialogue is as quippy as you’d expect from your friendly neighbourhood arachnid boy. The Last of Us Part II Many people could speak of nothing but Joel and Ellie in the years following the first game’s release, and a few years after that people decided there should be a sequel and started talking about them again. Omnipresent in the gaming stratosphere for a good five years now, thankfully the Last of Us sequel looks like it’s going to be even better. Who are we kidding, of course it will be – it’s Naughty Dog.

The Elder Scrolls VI All Bethesda needed to do at their press conference was show rolling footage of some hills, play something that sounded

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