I think Nintendo missed something when they began marketing the Switch as the “hybrid console”. All the adverts for their snazzy dockable hand-held showed off the portability they were no doubt so excited to show off to the world, with footage of people using the handheld Switch in laundromats, aeroplanes and the now-iconic roof-top party and while it’s nice to …
When I booted up MXGP 2019 and greeted by its slick character customisation, I thought things had changed. See, Milestone has been making MXGP videogames with the FIM Motocross World Championship licence for years, and they’ve featured the smallest, most iterative of upgrades in all that time. Even when they moved to a more modern piece of development software with …
Astral Chain is Platinum Game's most complex and satisfying action game yet, with deep and deliberate combat in a gorgeous and fascinating world to explore.
How do you improve on perfection? How do you take nature’s greatest killing machine, the ninja, and make the apex of stealth better? One, if you think ninjas are the result of fiction and Michael Dudikoff movies then shut up because have you ever seen a ninja? Check and mate, heretic. Two, cybernetics of course. Duh, man do I have …
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.
Do you remember Erica, the Playstation exclusive revival of the classic FMV gaming genre that was announced back in 2017 and then barely heard from since? Well, it was suddenly released earlier this week at Gamescom, catching many by surprise. What may even more surprising though, is just how good it is.
I think there’s often a misconception about what makes a game entertaining. It often feels like we spend ages talking about nothing besides combat as the core system that drives most games forward; Sure, there’s story and visuals, compelling level design and player progression, but more often than not those are spoken about in tangent to the combat system seen …
Ion Fury knows what it wants to be: A satisfying romp through the past, emboldened by the future and metal to the max.
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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