15 Upcoming Games We NEED To Play This Year

There are a ton of ways to make money in Grand Theft Auto V . From snagging massive wads of cash from doing the story's heist missions, to the mundane task of driving customers around in a taxi, there are near limitless ways to fatten your pockets to spend at your leisure. OR, swing around the block with a gun and rob the local convenience store. Odds are you won't get the a cash reward that can challenge most of the other activities you can join in the game, but the process of the robbery makes the return on investment worth it. But be warned! If you rob the same store multiple times, the store manager will recognize you immediately, and may even leave a couple of cops standing out in front of the shop. If you want to nail the art of robbery, it'll help to jump between a number of corner stores to steal their ti


Yooka-Laylee is a spiritual successor to the Nintendo 64 classic Banjo-Kazooie . The smash-hit Kickstarter campaign hit its funding goal in less than an hour and brought in over a million dollars faster than any video game campaign before it. The game stars a green chameleon named Yooka and a purple bat named Laylee who venture off exploring colourful 3D environments collecting dozens and dozens of items along the way. The game is being developed by ex-Rareware developers, with music being composed by the legendary Grant Kirkhope and David Wise (responsible for most your favourite tracks from Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country ). Yooka-Laylee is launching simultaneously for almost every major console under the sun, showing a confidence rarely seen from indie crowdfunded proje


Trevor, as crazy and untameable as he is, embodies the first generation of the series, with the top-down games, which were concentrated on killing and stealing cars. Franklin represents San Andreas , Vice City , and GTA III because he starts low and poor, but finishes rich and powerful. Michael is the avatar of the latest generation, starting with GTA IV . He’s the reformed criminal who’s trying to change his ways, but cannot succeed because criminality is all he knows. This is a bit sad, fran


South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut shocked movie theaters worldwide over 15 years ago. We’re happy to know Trey Parker and Matt Stone haven’t lost their passion for farcical pun titles. In South Park: The Fractured but Whole, the kids in town have quit playing make-believe as high fantasy adventurers and graduated to superheroes. We’re already sold on the premise, as the kids can’t agree on how to structure their cinematic universe, starting a civil war between them. Priceless. South Park: Fractured but Whole builds on the open world games updates-world exploration and classic role-playing combat of 2014’s South Park: The Stick of Truth , adding a wrinkle of tactical strategy to fights. With the series’ creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone coming back to work on another video game —bringing their wit and voice talent along with them— The Fractured but Whole is a sure


Grand Theft Auto has always been about mayhem. You can execute mass murderings on pedestrians, or blow up cars without consequence (well, the cops will come after you, but you can blow them up as well). But with Grand Theft Auto V 's take on three different main characters with their own respective safehouses, who's to stop you from taking out your frustrations on one of your buddies? If you choose to drop some lead or leave some explosives on one of the game's main safehouse, whoever's house it may be will shortly leave you an angry text message, and asking you "nicely" to stop it. If you REALLY want to continue your current destruction, nothing's going to stop you, but be careful if you're trashing Michael's home. If you harm any of his family members, you'll be forced to pay their medical bills shortly afterwa


Grand Theft Auto V already has a spin-off activity dedicated to street races. Races, of course, extend into other avenues such as plane and water boat races. You can, however, choose to have an informal race while free roaming against one other NPC. If you find yourself at a red light (like the good driver you are) next to someone else in a sports car, you can spin your wheels to get their attention. If done correctly, the adjacent car will start to take off, in which you can chase or blow past them. Fans of the _Fast & Furious _ movies rejoi


It’s been five years since Commander Shepard closed the book on the Reapers. Even if Mass Effect 3 ’s ending left a bad taste in your mouth, there’s no arguing that the world of Mass Effect is one the most detailed and beloved science fiction universes in gaming. Helmed by Bioware Montreal, Mass Effect: Andromeda is set 600 years after the original Mass Effect trilogy and transitions us from the Milky Way Galaxy to Andromeda. The newest installment is poised to build on everything we loved about the dialogue systems and combat of Mass Effect 2/3. It also hopes to finally deliver on the exploration elements of the original Mass Effect game — taking cues from Dragon Age: Inquisition to build out its open world games guide wo