Survival adventure leaps back ten million years to the dawn of humankind in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets and his team at Panache Digital Games have created a deliberately challenging, and different, sandbox experience that actually delivers on its promises. We also limited the monkey puns, promise.

The third-person action, while slick and elegant, is perhaps a little pedestrian, but the completely bonkers story and the rewarding sense of exploration and discovery help cement Control as one of Remedy's best games.

Bandai Namco is one of the eclectic publishers, it’s kinda difficult to pin down what exactly they’re all about. Ubisoft are publishers usually driven to create immersive, expansive open worlds, Sony often places an emphasis on cinematic presentation and narrative and EA likes money; they all kinda have some form of speciality that they’re known by. Bandai Namco on the …

It is impossible to do this feature without stating that I know absolutely nothing about football. It is a thing. People like the thing. They play video games about the thing. Cool. I may be understating it though. FIFA is a franchise which practically serves EA as a breadbasket. Come the apocalypse or the time when Star Citizen is released, …

Paul Sage sits opposite me, his intense eyes staring down at me from behind his glasses. Sage has worked on some of my favourite games which include the first two Borderlands, and he’s on the verge of launching the long-awaited next mainline entry into the beloved franchise. And he’s also busy telling me about a guy stuck in a porta-potty.

NBA 2K20 may have all the bells and whistles necessary to keep old fans satisfied, but for newcomers? It's a much harder sell.

Mortal Kombat 11 has a bunch of extra fighters on the way provided that you’re willing to press down down left right High Punch to initiate a fatality on your credit card, and between the likes of Todd McFarlane’s Spawn, Batman’s arch-nemesis the Joker and a few Mortal Kombat familiars, there is he who said he’d be back: Arnold Schwarzenegger. He just won't sound like him.

Need for Speed Heat will have its own selection of licensed tunes that cater towards the more chill side of driving while also flipping the coin at night to deliver some pulse-pounding beats.