Tag Archives: feature games

When the first Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) summer update was announced, I suddenly felt a renewed sense of purpose wash over me. I’ve never missed a single day since I started island life on my very own little sandy shores, but before the update came out, …

343 Industries would like you to look at Halo Infinite and see Halo: Combat Evolved. Have you seen that box art? It’s a very deliberate, and successful, evocation of box art from 2001. There’s the sweep of the halo ring itself, the best skybox in gaming, that resolves into undulating …

Dontnod has always had a fascination with the inner machinations of the mind. This studio has always made memory a central pillar of its mechanical and narrative design. Vampyr, Life is Strange, and Remember Me – not to mention the upcoming Twin Mirror – are all focused around this idea …

Spare a thought for the developers responsible for building the world of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (opens in new tab). Instead of research trips to Egypt or the sunny beaches of Greece, the team behind the latest installment found themselves at an Anglo Saxon museum in the UK’s East Anglia.  “The …

I inadvertently took a month-long break from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the longest I’ve gone without collecting Bells and bugs since before the game was released in late March. Upon my return to my island paradise, I discovered (to my abject horror) that it was infested with bugs that I …

Two things upfront before I say anything else, Firstly, I think The Last of Us 2 is an amazing piece of work, so try not to barrel into the comments to complain about the headline without actually reading anything. And, secondly, spoilers obviously. I’m going to be talking about the …

Key Info (Image credit: Square Enix) Game Outriders Developer People Can Fly Publisher Square Enix Platforms PC, PS5, Xbox Series X Release TBC 2020 People Can Fly wants to change your perception of Outriders (opens in new tab). Unveiled back in February, the studio struggled to break through the noise – an industry on the …

After numerous leaks, we finally have a Resident Evil 8 trailer. Or rather Resident Evil Village as Capcom is insisting it’s called. It’s packed full of details that confirm a spate of previous Resident Evil 8 leaks (opens in new tab) were true, and because so much of this rumored …

A long-awaited Google Stadia (opens in new tab) feature is finally making its way to the platform this summer. State Share is entering Beta in Summer 2020 alongside the release of Crayta, the Google Stadia exclusive that will let you and your friends create, play, and share multiplayer games of …

What a time to be a blerd! A black nerd, that is. Movies, TV shows, and comics have made huge leaps forward when it comes to diversity and representation, with the mammoth successes of Black Panther and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Ironheart getting her own comic series. But, video …