A Viewpoint

The first story driven downloadable content for the newly released Batman: Arkham Knight is Batgirl: A Matter of Family and will be available on July 14 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for those who bought the game's season pass. For those without the season pass, the DLC will make it's way after a week on July 21 for £6. This particular piece of add-on content was developed by Warner Bros. Montreal, the developer of Batman: Arkham Origins in 2013. However, Warner Bros. has confirmed that later DLC's of Batman: Arkham Knight will be developed by Rocksteady, the developer behind the acclaimed Batman Arkham Trilogy. Batgirl: A Matter of Family can be seen as a prequel to the Arkham trilogy as the events of the DLC take place before the first game of the series, Batman: Arkham Asylum. The DLC also enables the players to step into the shoes of Batgirl for the first time in the series. The DLC will take it's players to an entirely new location, with all new missio...

In a recent interview with Gamespot at E3 2015, Neil Druckmann, creative director of Naughty Dog, revealed that Uncharted 4 will not be following the Open World sandbox route to deliver it's signature brand of experience. Yeah, I mean the term we use is wide-linear. It's not open-world, because we wanted to tell a very specific story, with very specific tension. Druckmann stated that the relaxed pace of Open World experiences can really get in the way of the dynamics of the narrative, particularly in the case of a focused experience like the Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. The thing I have a hard time with, in open-world games, is that there's a lack of tension. Say if my ally's life is in jeopardy; I can still go off and do five different side-quests, and I don't believe that jeopardy. So I feel we need some way to control the pacing, and it needs to be ways where you are still active as well. I have to agree, for a heavily story driven experi...