Gamescom

The calm before the Gamescom storm this coming week saw news about Resident Evil and Sleeping Dogs updates break along with the reveal of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and our reviews of Sacred 3, The Last of Us Remastered, and a whole mess of DVDs.

We take a look ahead to Gamescom with big games and announcements to keep an eye out for, and examine the strange occurrence of video game bosses that you don’t actually fight in they week’s edition of the Radar.

Ubisoft has released a brand new trailer for the very impressive looking Assassin’s Creed IV at the Gamescom trade show that’s currently running in Europe. It’s a pirates life for Edward Kenway.

Activision announced a quartet of new Skylanders today for the upcoming Swap Force including a pair of new ‘core’ characters.

For a racing game, EA’s newest Need for Speed looks like it has a whole lot of action.

Mario Kart 8 may be a long way away, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a taste of things to come before the inevitable release. The first thing you notice when watching the players tour the ghost mansion is how the courses twist and turn in many different directions. …

Looking for Donkey Kong? He’s here at Gamescom as well, and looking as good as ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjt5ueO8-PU Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was first revealed on Nintendo‘s E3 Direct. As expected, the title is as solid as ever, with smooth platforming goodness combined with tight controls. To top it all …

It seems like it’s been an eternity since we last saw some new gameplay footage of Nintendo‘s upcoming Mario game, Super Mario 3D World. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR7pGjbJsv0 If you’ve  been thirsting for more videos of Mario goodness like I have, then this ought to tide you over for a little bit. Here …

Reef Entertainment secures the rights to the classic sci-fi franchise.

The newest trailer for the third Dragon Age title Inquisition debuted at the European game show and details a little more of what fans can expect from the upcoming RPG.

Originally developed by Reflections Interactive, Shadow of the Beast is the latest game (or victim, depending on how you look at it) to be getting a reboot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWOsd-x6O9Q Heavy Spectrum are tasked with destroying my childhood memo- I mean reviving the 1989 classic, which was released for the Amiga and then …

Sony is about to make that Vita a lot more useful.

It seems like forever that we’ve been hearing November or the ever-ambiguous ‘Holiday 2013’ as the launch date for Sony’s PS4, but things are a little clearer now.