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Follow the treasure map found in Snobby Shores is this week’s chance to grab some free Battle Stars from the Fortnite Battle Pass Challenges (opens in new tab). This time, while it’s technically called the Fortnite Snobby Shores treasure map, the reward is as ever, elsewhere: in Haunted Hills.  Fortnite …

Even though Fortnite (opens in new tab) only exploded in popularity at the start of season 3, Epic’s Battle Royale game has in fact had five lengthy seasons so far. While the game launched in September, season 1 didn’t kick off until October 25 and it wasn’t anywhere near as …

1. With season 4, Better Call Saul is on track to becoming as perfect a TV show as Breaking Bad When Better Call Saul was first announced as the unexpected dram-com spinoff to Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan’s dark, neo-Western masterpiece of a TV show, I had nightmare flashbacks to equally …

Ubisoft’s ‘make your own level’ Arcade game editor in Far Cry 5 (opens in new tab) has been used to make some cool things. But by far the most impressive creations are when people create something recognisably not Far Cry, like movies to whole other game franchise. The skill here …

If any one, central failing can be seen as the root of Destiny 2 (opens in new tab)’s many, individual problems over the last year, then the blame lies with a lost sense of possibility. Whether we Guardians have bemoaned the reduced scope for personalised, RPG character-tinkering, or the severely …

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the final game in the rebooted trilogy that refreshed the Lara Croft mythos, taking us back to her first adventures. Now Eidos Montreal studio head David Anfossi has spoken to our own Official Xbox Magazine (opens in new tab) about how the story marks …

Realm Royale is coming to PS4 and Xbox One, and sooner than you might have expected. A closed beta will kick off the week of July 30, with sign-ups now live on the official Realm Royale site (opens in new tab). If you’re curious to try it out or have …

One of the big surprises of E3 2018 was FromSoftware’s appearance at the Xbox press conference (opens in new tab), showing off new game Sekiro (opens in new tab): Shadows Die Twice. Firmly focused on action, the hero is a ninja warrior slashing and slicing his way through 16th century …

Not a lot of video games encourage their players to drink responsibly. Grand Theft Auto 5 (opens in new tab) happily lets you fly commercial jets while completely cabbaged, for Pete’s sake. But in The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep – the CRPG follow-up to 1988’s Bard’s Tale III – …

The Last of Us 2 (opens in new tab) may be one of the most-anticipated games of 2018 / 2019 / who-knows-when (we still don’t have a release window yet), but it surely won’t be one of the most fun. That’s not coming from me, by the way; that’s the …