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AO Tennis claims to be ‘the most advanced tennis game ever produced,’ but it’s clear that its lofty ambition far exceeds its ability to execute. Certainly AO Tennis is not even up to the standard of the Top Spin or Virtua Tennis games released an entire console generation ago, and is about as absent-minded, half-hearted, and personality free as a birthday card from Bernard Tomic.

AO Tennis has a handful of fresh ideas but they’re far from fully formed and never really adequately explained thanks to the complete absence of any in-game tutorials. For example, you’re given the option of using the right thumbstick to both serve and play your shots with, but I soon discovered that the former is limited only to flat serves and the latter automatically decides the shot type for you. If you want to deliberately impart slice on a serve or put topspin on a forehand you’re forced to revert to the classic face button setup anyway, which meant that I soon ditched the half-baked thumbstick controls and never went back.

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Over the past year, Star Wars has become the single most frustrating comic in Marvel’s lineup. The stories in this series are strong, even more so since Kieron Gillen came on board as writer. But almost invariably, those stories are being held back by awkward, poorly executed art. At some point, it’s enough to wish this storyline were being told in the form of a prose novel rather than a comic book.

Gillen continues to impress as he moves “Ashes of Jedha” into climax mode. The stakes are plenty high at this point, with Leia’s Rebel group and Benthic’s Partisan faction uniting to take down the Empire’s latest unstoppable super-weapon (which itself, ironically, is being used to further the development of the second Death Star). The conflict feels appropriately desperate and one-sided.

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The long-running franchise goes open world very soon. If you’re thinking about buying, read this first.

Switch cases are crucial and you should definitely get one.

A new video game based on the Alien sci-fi series is on the way. FoxNext Games, the video game division of film and TV giant Fox, made the announcement of a new shooter game for PC and console, but that’s basically all we know about it so far.

The untitled game is in development at the San Francisco-based Cold Iron Studios, which was established in 2015 and is now owned by FoxNext. Cold Iron is staffed by people who worked on titles such as Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, BioShock Infinite, Borderlands, Doom, and Metroid Prime 3. The new Alien game will be Cold Iron’s first title.

Beyond the fact that it is a shooter, FoxNext also said this game will “deliver an action-packed gaming experience.” No other details are available at this time.

While some people who work at Cold Iron have a background in making MMOs like City of Heroes and Star Trek Online, a FoxNext representative declined to say what kind of online elements the new Alien game may have. Whatever the case, Cold Iron CEO Craig Zinkievich teased that the studio’s history of making online worlds “is a precise fit with our product roadmap ahead.”

2014’s Alien: Isolation from UK studio Creative Assembly is the latest installment in the Alien video game series for console and PC. The game sold more than 2 million copies. Creative Assembly talked about ideas for a sequel, but it remains to be seen if that will ever happen.

We will report back with more details on the new Alien shooter as they’re announced. What would you like to see from the game? Let us know in the comments below!