With Hitman 3 around the corner, the song remains the same but with an added twist: Virtually real first-person viewpoints. If you’re not content with watching Agent 47 drown an uptight vegan rock star in his own gluten-free cake, you can now do so at a more visceral level through the eyes of the world’s greatest assassin.

It’ll likely be a long wait for Lara Croft to return to her roots of pillaging cultural ruins, but after a trilogy that was at least 66% brilliant, the idea of giving the franchise a chance to rest doesn’t sound like a bad one. Now’s actually a great time to revisit the older games, to see just how far the series has come over the years and if you were in the mood for a properly nostalgic dose of teal swimsuits and 9mm guns akimbo, then here’s a blast from the past.

Perhaps the next entry in the beloved post-apocalyptic RPG will feature an entirely new point and view and combat…

Now that the Xbox Series X and PS5 have launched, the time is ripe to spend more money on new hardware. Considering how the Wii U had turned the Big N into a laughing stock in the gaming industry, it’s amazing just how far the company has come in reversing this tide with the Nintendo Switch console. Now approaching four …

Microsoft’s been on a tear over the last few years, dropping a casual billion dollars here and there to acquire studios that can make the Xbox an RPG ecosystem not to be chuffed around with. That spending spree could have occurred a lot sooner though, as during the early days of the development of the original Xbox console, Microsoft was ready to throw money at some big names in the gaming industry.

There’s a lot of good games coming out in 2021, and if you’ve been looking for a good old-fashioned loot ‘n shooter then People Can Fly’s Outriders is probably going to scratch that Dopamine itch for min-maxing numbers, moderately better weapons as you power up, and hordes of cannon fodder to test your new weapons out on.

Exploration is the factor that pays off in the end, and doing more of that in Hitman 3 will unlock a handy new feature in each of the game’s new levels: Shortcuts.

A slow-motion bullet ballet extravaganza, The Hong Kong Massacre is a lean and mean action gameplay whose core gunplay makes for a satisfying and challenging loop that’ll leave you feeling like a hardboiled action star after every face-off.