Star Wars has returned. Spirits dampened by the prequels have been re-ignited by the new hope of a JJ Abrams-helmed, George Lucas-free trilogy, and Jar Jar Binks will soon be nothing more than a fading memory. What better way to…
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There is no deathmatch in Overwatch . Let that sink in for a moment. Here’s a first-person shooter wherein simply offing your opposite numbers for the duration of a match and then seeing at the end if your team has won or lost ju…
We’re creeping up on the two-year anniversary since Rockstar Games launched GTA V on PS3 and Xbox 360. In the meantime we’ve had shiny new PS4, Xbox One and PC versions, and a glut of improvements to the Online side of things, i…
We haven’t yet seen a single second of in-game footage of Creative Assembly’s next project, and it doesn’t matter. If you spend your evenings hunched over miniatures, carefully drybrushing chainmail, or if you just love fantasy b…
Veterans of other golf games will find something new when stepping up to the green; the game plays more like 3D snooker, emphasising trick shots and precision to land home without accumulating a stratospheric high score. The game…
It’s pretty safe to say that PC indie gaming is currently in the grip of a serious nostalgia boom, with every second game released seeming to opt for 8 or 16 bit graphics, old fashioned platforming mechanics or something of the l…
Crypt of the NecroDancer is not the first game to fuse dungeon crawling and rhythm action the rather charming Sequence (Now known as Before the Echo thanks to a copyright claim) did it a few years back but it most definitely the …
When it comes to Rainbow Six Siege , one thing is for sure: it’s going to be completely different from the likes of Call Of Duty and Battlefield. Sure, those two titles have their differences, but Rainbow Six stands alone in the …
If the main criticism of the Call Of Duty series is that it lacks originality, then the reveal of Black Ops III isn’t going to help matters. Our first significant exposure to the game came in the form of a trailer that could hav…
Video games are synonymous with combat. The most common cliché among uneducated players is that games harbour and promote violence and blood. It’s a cliché which, sadly, isn’t totally unearned. Even games with a seemingly innocen…
It’s a bit of a crowded market for PC RPGs nowadays. In fact, there’s such a wealth of great stuff that it’s becoming hard to stand out from the pack. What can a dev do to catch the attention of consumers? Well, you can get the l…
It’s not easy being blue. Just ask the ten year old Marcurian kid whose parents have been sent to the islands for “re-education,” permanently, along with non-humans from an ever widening geographic area. This boy is plucky, thoug…
Games sure do take you to some grim places. Whether it’s nomming on your crew in Sunless Sea or robbing from pensioners in This War Of Mine, we’ve done some pretty despicable things in order to survive. In Sheltered , the latest …
The downpour pitter-patters a tiny cacophony on our helmet as droplets stream down the visor. It is, as you can guess, raining, but this isn’t any rain. F1 2015 has some of the best falling water we’ve seen in a videogame: wheel…
This take on the not-so-humble MOBA genre has reached the final stages of its long-running beta phase. As the full game preps for launch, complete with a suitably filling roster of 30 characters to play as from the Warcraft maker…
A long time ago, in a gaming-verse not so far, far away, Free Radical Design’s Star Wars: Battlefront III died an unceremonious death, reportedly cancelled by LucasArts at the eleventh hour “for financial reasons”. Millions of f…
Elegy for a Dead World challenges you not to play it but to write it. Think of it as a muse, or a quiet invitation to get creative, set in a game-like place. You’re simply an enigmatic, space-suited person and can say what you b…
When we got the chance to grill Ed Schofield about Armikrog, one question loomed larger than any other: If claymation is such a difficult process to get right, why use it at all? “Clay is awesome! The inherently physical properti…
