Eidos-Montreal creates a glorious adventure in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Rockstar remasters three of its formative GTA games, 343 Industries details the story of Halo Infinite.

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy a charming, worthy adventure

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy doesn’t invent anything new from a gameplay perspective, but it delivers a rousing action story with impeccable characters that are exactly the kind of carping friends we want them to be.

The game, developed at Square Enix studio Eidos-Montreal, takes some cues from the recent movies – the soundtrack is the most prominent thing the game borrowed from the film – but the story here is inspired by the comic series.

This means that the characters do not look like the actors who played them in the films. And while the actors at work in the game pay homage to the film actors, their performances are without fault and you won’t miss Pratt and company at all.

The game is straight-forward, sometimes literally. As Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, you’ll move through linear levels collecting the items that you can use to upgrade your gear and fighting various alien creatures. Every once in a while you’ll end up in a larger space where you and the rest of the Guardians engage in an arena battle with a more significant monster or groups of creatures,

In these battles you can direct the actions of the other four and you can trigger combo attacks. If things aren’t going your way you can call a huddle, which pauses the action while your team groups around you for a pep talk. This recharges everyone’s health, and if you choose the correct speech everyone also gets a damage boost for a short time.

The chatter between the characters is a defining feature of this world and that’s one of the things that makes this game so genuine. Even when you’re just moving around the world everyone’s talking to each other, and as Star-Lord you’ll participate by making choices about what you’re going to say. These decisions have an impact on the story that you play through.

The story is involved, and twisting, and filled with all the stakes it needs to have. Most importantly, you’ll care about this collection of misfits. They’ve all experienced trauma in some way, and have created a family around that fact. Like all families they argue and get mad at each other and find ways to forgive each other.

The game is fun to play, but the heartfelt way that Eidos-Montreal put together these characters in this story is what makes Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy such a delight.

Rockstar collecting remasters of three essential GTA games

Three games that could be considered canon have been remastered and refined and are being released in a couple of weeks.

Rockstar Games has collected Grand Theft Auto III (Liberty City), Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition.

The set will be available digitally on November 11 for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and as a physical release on December 7 for everything except PS5.

Android and iOS versions are planned for 2022.

The new versions of the games include across-the-board upgrades including graphical improvements and modern gameplay enhancements for all three titles.

This includes updated controls that are more like those used for GTA V.

Rockstar also making two games available to Microsoft and Sony’s subscription services, with GTA: San Andreas coming to Xbox Game Pass on November 11 and GTA III coming to PlayStation Now on December 7.

Microsoft details the story we’ll play in Halo Infinite

In a six-minute plus video that premiered on Monday, 343 Industries showed us the overview of the campaign that’s a part of Halo Infinite.

In the video we get a look at the world that Master Chief will be exploring, and the mystery that he’s trying to solve: what happened to Cortana, the AI that was his ever-present companion in the first trilogy and has become something else in this second.

Halo Infinite is the third game in what’s known as the “Reclaimer Trilogy”, and is the sixth game in the main part of the franchise that features Master Chief. It launches on December 8 for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.