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China is set to lift its fifteen year long ban on video game consoles. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft products can now be sold without restriction.

Lara Croft and her games have been reimagined more than once, each point marking a decade of game design. While Legend was the first real reboot, building a new engine, gameplay style and backstory from the ground up, I feel like Anniversary is the best one to point out how much Tomb Raider had changed. It was a honest to god remake and not simply a HD texture pack, and took subtle but definite steps to turn Lara Croft into a more fleshed out, more human character. Tomb Raider 2013's reboot overshadows the previous one, but the reasons for that might not be in it's favour.

With Ubisoft making a move toward movies, what have they got for us on the videogame front at E3 2016 - marking their 30th anniversary.

https://youtu.be/zT5dAzBNoj4

MGSV is one of the most satisfying games I’ve ever played and the buzz I shared on my first impressions review never died out. Usually in MGS I have moments were I go nuts with lethal weapons, disregarding stealth because there’s more novelty in strapping a guard with C4 and holding down the fort with a machine gun after he blows up. But this one gives you so many options for playing it sneaky that I haven’t even had time to use bullets and bombs.

https://youtu.be/Duo9avCD_PE

In a world where power is derived from money, PPP serves as a Keynesian cheerleader, a cautionary tale about financial deregulation and its abbreviation has the same letters as Purchasing Power Parity. Deep stuff.

Xbox 360s new update

I sat down to play my PS3 the other day as I wanted an experience that I felt was lacking from the current gen...