Gosh, I know it feels like this happens every year, but there are some meaningful changes coming to Call of Duty this time. The engine’s been given a proper overhaul and there are new modes that add more weight, more gravitas to the multiplayer. Look, I’m not saying that you, as a perhaps lapsed fan of Call of Duty games who got tired of what seemed like rehashes year on year, should rush out and buy the game on my say so, but I am saying that if you have the time, you should at least give the game’s impending second beta wave a shot.

The Ghosts were once a terror in the wasteland. Ruthless, vicious, tactical, and cruel, they took what they wanted and left no survivors. Following the Authority Wars, they were nowhere to be found. At the time, many people assumed they had simply been wiped out and they began to fade into wasteland legend. In reality, they had found a higher calling; a strange woman named Iris promised them power and glory if they did everything she said.

Borderlands 3 is out this week, and it’s one of the biggest, most anticipated game releases of the year. From everything we’ve seen before, it looks like…well, it looks like more Borderlands. Nothing revolutionary, but a game filled with nice quality of life enhancements that build on the game and world established in the sublime Borderlands 2.

The year is 2012. I’m in grade 11, sixteen years old and going through the paces of high-school. It’s September, so the end of the year is starting to make its presence known. Teachers won’t stop going on about how we have to start studying now for our exams while continuously giving us essay after project after presentation to prepare …

Driveclub was beautiful, sublime to experience and it deserved better before Sony parked it away in a random barn with nary a find word said, leaving it to be forgotten about in the years to come.

Having spent a bunch of time playing WRC 8, and remembering playing Codemaster’s DiRT Rally 2.0 at the start of the year, got me thinking that the sub-genre of rally racing is one of the last places you, a fan of driving games, can go for a proper single-player experience. We’re not going to get Need for Speed games like …

Just like every year before it, Bungie has a few BIG changes in store for Destiny 2. Some of these changes are good! With an eye on growing the fanbase by making a large chunk of the base game free and tailoring events to give the series a soft reset for newcomers and veterans alike, the Shadowkeep era will be Bungie’s biggest effort yet at ensuring that Destiny has a future without the lucrative purse of Activision steering the franchise. Some of those other changes…are not so good.

If someone trawled through all your video calls and electronic communications, what kind of person would they find? Are you really one of the good guys? FMV mystery game Telling Lies, from the creator of acclaimed Her Story, proposes some answers.