For all its interesting dialogue, branching trees of responses and intertwining skill checks, nothing affected me more while playing Disco Elysium than when the second morning dawned on Revachol. My grubby, anti-social and perpetually hungover ‘hero’ shuffled to the edge of his bed, swung out his legs and, resting his …
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Google Stadia (opens in new tab) is here… kind of. Google isn’t using the word “beta,” but many of the service’s features are still in development. The dream of Stadia is a turnkey service that lets you play games on any device and it will run just as well as …
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Blizzard Entertainment is promising to take its ever-popular team-based shooter to the next level, but is the studio doing enough with Overwatch 2 (opens in new tab) to justify a whole new game? That’s the question on everybody’s mind following its reveal earlier this month, and it’s a perception problem …
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When you’re an outsider in a strange new star system, lost in the far reaches of space, there’s nothing quite like having a ragtag bunch of misfits to keep you company. The Outer Worlds (opens in new tab) gives you the freedom to decide how your journey will unfold by …
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BAFTA’s Breakthrough Brits for 2019 (opens in new tab) have been announced today, in partnership with Netflix: the prestigious new talent scheme supports the next generation of creative talent in games, film and TV in the UK, with supporters in recent years including actors Olivia Colman and Brad Pitt, and …
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GamesRadar can exclusively reveal that NXT UK superstar Trent Seven is a member of the WWE 2K20 roster (opens in new tab) for the first time – and it takes the lad born in Wolverhampton one step closer to completing his holy trinity. “When you’re a kid dreaming of becoming …
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Twenty years ago Sir Daniel Fortesque became an unlikely PlayStation icon. He was old, far from heroic, and very much dead. MediEvil became a cult classic nonetheless, and the fact that two decades on Sony’s bringing this game back for a remake suggests the company is in full swagger and …
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By day I am Arthur Morgan, cynical gunslinger with a big heart and grizzly-bear beard who runs with the notorious Dutch Van Der Linde gang in Red Dead Redemption 2 (opens in new tab). I have a horse that poos a lot and I ride around the wilderness of West …
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Every video game in existence has a secret history. In every studio there’s a story that has never escaped its office walls; tales of strife, contentious design decisions, and eleventh-hour changes that can ultimately make or break a game. That’s because the process of game development is a messy business, …
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Mention the name Warcraft today and most people will immediately think of World of Warcraft, the incredibly successful MMORPG that has dominated the genre since 2004 and has recently been re-released as World of Warcraft Classic. Yet the story of Warcraft began over ten years earlier with an embryonic company …
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