Minimap: Gamescom, Star Wars Battlefront, Mad Max

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Minimap is your daily audio tour through the world of video games, related technologies and pop culture like comics, movies and TV. Here's what we're covering today:

THE BIG STORIES

• Star Wars Battlefront takes Gamescom's best-in-show honors
• We played Star Wars Battlefront's new Fighter Squadron mode
• Mad Max is the fight club I expected, but I wasn't ready for the wasteland

THE BEST OF THE REST

• Everybody's Gone to the Rapture review: signal to noise
• A tour of Montreal's Game On exhibition
• New Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer features one impressive new shot