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Star Fox Zero, the first brand new Star Fox game in ten years, is out this week to satiate starving Wii U fans desperate for new entertainment. While it represents many firsts for the series, from its already divisive motion controls to the role of Platinum Games in its creation, …

Left on the cutting room floor You’ve finally done it. You’ve written your 1200-page game bible, describing all 150 painstakingly detailed levels, 20 different boss fights, and an overarching plot that spans generations. Now comes the part where you actually, y’know, make it. You’ve got two years to do so, …

Out on Friday 8 April Jeff Nichols conjures up supernaturalism for sceptics. Jacques Audiard packs quite a punch. A final lead performance from Robin Williams. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of Midnight Special, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Dheepan, Boulevard, Hardcore Henry, Nasty Baby, Couple …

With a misuse of facial sliders and a careful application of wholesale moral deficiency, I’ve created a roster of the ugliest fighters to ever stumble into an Octagon. It’s a case of either cranking everything up to 11 or reverse-cranking it down to -1 and then marvelling/recoiling at whatever monstrosity …

Everything’s changed in the seven years since Shadow Complex first hit Xbox 360. Metroidvania games, once an endangered species, are now plentiful. Nolan North was still only in about half of all games rather than pretty much all of them. And everyone thought Shadow Complex was just the beginning of …

You want justice? Here, build your own Justice! *flings bricks at you* There’s a lot of Batman v Superman (opens in new tab) tie-ins. Forget the plastic cups, lunchboxes, figures, and err… ice cream (yes, really (opens in new tab)), some of the coolest merchandise tied to the flick is …

Long before people even used the phrase “indie game,” Ska Studios was pumping out unusual, artful, deeply awesome independently developed games. While they gained their biggest following thanks to Xbox 360 games like The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and Charlie Murder, they’ve been pumping out something new almost every year since …

Maybe history really is cyclical. Video games certainly make that case, especially in the last few years as genres long thought dead are resurrected and reinvented: fighting games; isometric, turn-based RPGs; and perhaps the oddest of all, hardcore space sims (opens in new tab). Led by a reanimated Elite franchise …

The Division didn’t make me pause until I got outside of Madison Square Garden. I fought my way through the weird Reverse Tardis version of the famous arena with its diminutive stands, shooting bandana-wearing thugs with typical video game abandon, but when I went outside, there was Monell’s. In the …

Way back in 2011, Supergiant Games made waves with Bastion, the isometric brawler with a gorgeous aesthetic, deeply satisfying combat, and a fantastical story brought to life by a gifted narrator. Now, in 2016, all those same righteous descriptors apply to Stories: The Path of Destinies, a PS4 and PC …