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You know the eagle that conveniently flaps away whenever you clamber to the top of a viewpoint in Assassin’s Creed? That’s me. Except I’m not perched on some church in the middle of Florence – I’m soaring over the buildings of Paris, zipping in and out of the (weirdly deserted) …

Ready At Dawn, the developer behind the visually stunning The Order 1886 (opens in new tab), has made a drastic shift from its man-eating werewolves and Knights of the Round Table protagonists with its new game. There are monsters, but they’re the cute and cuddly kind. In Deformers, you play …

Platinum Games. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This combination of ridiculous ninja amphibians and the developer of Bayonetta sounds like some kind of impossibly beautiful dream. It’s real, though. Today on GR+ Live, we’re playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan on PlayStation 4. Is it another weaker effort like …

Turns out Uncharted 4 was worth the wait. After all the delays, Naughty Dog brought Nathan Drake’s story to a spectacular close. Writer and Naughty Dog veteran Josh Scherr joined us to talk about his journey with the series from animator to writer and the series conclusion.  Dig the show? …

Warning: spoilers for this week’s episode ahead! Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) has lost its truest hero. The show and – to a greater extent – the books love to remind us that its characters are flawed, impure, deeply human. Even the noble knights in Sansa’s books turn …

The perfect evolution of a basic, ubiquitous game  Format: iOS / Android Price: Free Release date: Out now I’d like to think that we’ve all played it at some point. Whether you know it as Breakout or Arkanoid, you’d recognize the gameplay on sight: a ball bounces between bricks at …

Out on Friday 27 May Alice embarks on a new adventure. Whit Stillman unearths a lost Jane Austen story. Jodie Foster’s credit-crunch satire draws mixed returns. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of Alice Through the Looking Glass, Love & Friendship, Money Monster, The Daughter, …

It’s time to return to the Wasteland! Or, more precisely, it’s time to leave the Wasteland. In the new Fallout 4 DLC, a fresh case for Valentine’s Detective Agency sends you off to find a bright young woman who has disappeared from home. The mission takes you to an island …

With their socially aware, grounded, forceful dramas, the Dardenne brothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc) are modern cinema’s conscience. In their 10th film, The Unknown Girl, conscience is the theme, with several players tormented by guilt into doing the right thing. Being the Dardennes, who like to keep things small and focused, …

Earlier this month, I downloaded and played through the Nioh demo from Team Ninja. As many people on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other social media have noticed, the game bears a striking similarity to the Dark Souls (opens in new tab) series. There are obvious differences, of course: Nioh’s setting …