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Maybe it was being given a larger slice of the game to play with, or perhaps my homesickness for the UK has finally gotten the better of me, but Watch Dogs Legion finally feels like a world I want to spend hours in. This time around I started out as …

There’s nothing like having to fend off a pack of wolves with a wooden shovel, before sitting down in a dark hut to a diet of raw mushrooms to make you grateful for pizza, electric light, and Ikea. Medieval Dynasty is a simulation game that is far more interested in …

Entering The Oldest House in Control is a real through the looking-glass moment. The brutalist skyscraper appears less like a functional building, and more like a labyrinth designed by M.C. Escher. It doesn’t take long to see that the place is special. Whether it’s the Giant Redwoods growing in an …

Yakuza: Like a Dragon converts the street-brawling action of the Yakuza series into traditional, turn-based JRPG combat. I’m usually a big supporter of game franchises reinventing themselves, especially at natural break points like the arrival of a new protagonist – but I was filled with more dread than joy when …

As I sit trapped in my sweltering flat, sweat dripping down my chest, and Covid19 fears ricocheting around my head, it feels both surreal and oddly comforting to see my situation mirrored on a screen. Amidst a blistering British heatwave, I’m playing Stilstand, an utterly bizarre interactive comic from Danish …

Read more (Image credit: Sony) Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Horizon: Forbidden West coming to PS4 is an unexpected surprise, but one we should probably welcome (opens in new tab) It’s best that you don’t mistake the PlayStation Plus Collection as the PS5‘s answer to Xbox Game Pass. PlayStation certainly doesn’t …

Finally, 21 years after Pokemon Snap’s initial release, Nintendo has surprised everyone by announcing a long-awaited sequel. The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, proving there’s still a market for Nintendo 64 titles among both nostalgic adults and newer, younger players.  In fact, there are plenty of creative games on the …

“It’s not a lake, it’s an ocean.” Those famous parting words from Remedy’s 2010 thriller Alan Wake (opens in new tab) have left fans puzzled by its purpose for years. Through an XBLA semi-sequel, a mystifying ARG (opens in new tab), and countless teases in Quantum Break and more recently …

It’s important to admit that after hundreds of hours of Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab), we all have some very specific new behaviours. Perhaps your IRL morning now has a 20 minute play session before getting down to the reality of the day, or maybe your in-game …

Video game music composers work audible magic. There’s a popular take on movies and their music that suggests the former would be nothing without the latter. There’s definitely some truth in that: watching a horror movie on mute is less scary; battle scenes become documentary sequences without bombastic orchestral arrangements. …