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Among its many inspired bits of game design (opens in new tab), one particularly bold choice in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab) was letting players decide for themselves when it was finally time to fight the final boss. Whether you want to take …

As of today, Subnautica: Below Zero is finally out on PC in Early Access. The standalone expansion to the underwater survival horror game, Subnautica (opens in new tab), features an entirely new aquatic open world to explore, set to another sci-fi story that takes place exactly one year after the …

There’s nothing quite like the Trials series, with its inimitable mix of motorcycling racing, fiendishly difficult platforming, and physics puzzling. Players who can’t get enough of the unique Trials brand of challenge have been patiently waiting for the next ride since 2014’s Trials Fusion, with its cheesy-but-charming futuristic setting and …

Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a shock to me, but it’s only as I’m surrounded by lurching, beige-colored mutants that I realize just how scarce ammunition is in the post apocalyptic era. Within 20 minutes of being let out to roam the huge desert map – one of the game’s …

There are the big, award-winning games that you just have to play, and then there are the ones that you play late into the night, and just won’t let go no matter how many hours you give them. In the last Big Question of 2018 we found out what our …

I don’t think I’ve ever heard an audience cheer so loudly for an announcement so unremarkable, but the crowd at Hi-Rez Expo are clearly excited. As part of its Hi-Rez Presents briefing, Paladins studio Evil Mojo has just announced that full cross-play and cross-progression is coming to the hero shooter …

It’s pretty much standard issue for games to come with a photo mode these days, and Fallout 76 (opens in new tab) isn’t any different. It does however have a lovely little twist I’ve discovered in the Fallout 76 beta where the pictures you take are quietly slipped into your …

“No one gives a f*ck about you.” That’s the opening line for one of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (opens in new tab)’s prestige cinematic trailers, uttered by Donnie ‘Ruin’ Walsh. If you haven’t already sprinted a mile in his boots, Ruin is one of the ten Specialist characters …

I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the Fallout 76 beta this much. I mean, I thought I’d like it, but I wasn’t expecting a weird feeling of almost childlike wonder to well up as the Appalachian mountains unfolded before me. More than ever before in the series I felt a very …

Chickens are utter bastards in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (opens in new tab). They’ll attack your character without warning or cause, often in broods of three or more, breaking your cover at the most inconvenient times and even killing players too flabbergasted to respond quickly enough.  Read more The best games …