I don’t think an Animal Crossing game has ever been played like New Horizons was in 2020. Previously players have been happy diving in each day to greet villagers and tick through daily tasks. But last year, we collectively wrung every second of gameplay possible out of Animal Crossing: New …
Read More »Why Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 2 is “not the end of the Doom universe”, even as it brings the Slayer saga to a close
The end of the Doom Slayer saga is nigh. Wrapping up the story that began with 2016’s phenomenal Doom reboot, id Software’s final piece of DLC for Doom Eternal, The Ancient Gods Part 2, is going out with a bang, squelch, howl, or indeed any other noise a demon makes …
Read More »One year of Warzone: How battle royale changed Call of Duty for good
Call of Duty: Warzone has changed the landscape of Call of Duty forever. What was once a franchise defined by distinct annual instalments is now a fluid ecosystem; multiple interconnected experiences all anchored around a single, unifying battle royale, free for everyone and continually evolving. Just a little over a …
Read More »Four years on, Splatoon 2 is still the freshest shooter around
I’ve fallen back into the ink. With Splatoon 3 now confirmed and looking fresh as hell, I’m fully back on my squid-kid nonsense. But 2022 is a long time to wait – and if you’ve never dipped your toes in Nintendo’s ink-splattered shooter, now might seem like a strange time …
Read More »Red Dead Online needs an in-game gold rush if it wants to bring new players to the frontier in 2021
From Oregon Trail emigrants to the infamous Forty-Niners, Expansion era America saw hundreds of thousands head westward in search of fortune. Their pilgrimage across miles of open country wasn’t undertaken just for the adventure of it, after all, but for the promise of more – more money and more opportunity. …
Read More »Master Rank, Apex monsters, and the Rampage: the Monster Hunter Rise team takes us inside the series stunning return to handheld
Somewhat paradoxically, Monster Hunter Rise is facing a bit of a second album scenario. It’s certainly not the second Monster Hunter game, but it is the game to follow Monster Hunter World, a massive mainstream success that got countless people into a series that has long gotten by with a …
Read More »Hood: Outlaws and Legends aims for a darker twist on the Prince of Thieves with its bloody, brutal multiplayer heists
With medieval heist sim, Hood: Outlaws and Legends, Sumo Digital is hoping to shock you. Starring a bunch of parkouring protagonists clutching hidden blades and donning iconic hoods, however, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’ve seen this all before. A brutal reimagining of English folklore legend Robin Hood, Sumo …
Read More »Star Fox meets Knight Rider in Chorus, a next-generation space-combat shooter that blends speed with smarts
As a AAA, multi-platform title utilising the power of next-gen hardware, Chorus is a big step up for Deep Silver Fishlabs, though not a project completely out of its comfort zone. This next evolution of the space-combat genre marks a culmination of everything Fishlabs has learned with its popular Galaxy …
Read More »Decoding the clues in that surprise Bethesda Indiana Jones game teaser
Today, January 12, Bethesda announced an original Indiana Jones game from Wolfenstein studio MachineGames in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. Alongside the announcement, we got a brief teaser trailer full of Easter eggs that point towards the games’ setting and its content. How has it taken us this long to get …
Read More »Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be the first must-own PS5 exclusive of 2021
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is going to be an adventure unlike any other. Insomniac Games first established this playground for interactive anarchy almost 20 years ago. Now, the studio is beginning the arduous process of picking it apart at the seams, setting the stage for a dimension-hopping excursion that …
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