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Kirby Air Riders
If you’d listed every possible game and franchise that Nintendo could revive in the year 2025 for the Switch 2, there are dozens of options I would’ve guessed before ever getting to, “Masahiro Sakurai is bringing back Kirby Air Ride.” Clearly, that’s why I’m not one of the visionaries working...
If you’re ready for more so soon, Black Ops 7’s multiplayer modes deliver what you’re looking for. It’s the most familiar Call of Duty year-on-year yet – perhaps it should have been an expansion for Black Ops 6 – but you know what you’re in for with more fast and...
I was obsessed with real-time strategy games as a kid, and when I hit my teens I gained an intense love for tabletop wargames and Civilization. I find myself firmly in the back-half of my 30s now, which feels just about bang on time for a foray into the world...
Wreckreation
For me, Burnout Paradise was — and still is — the epitome of arcade racing. The open map, the volume of content and activities, and the balance of challenge and accessibility had me throwing away more than 300 hours of my life; I loved every minute of it. Since then,...
The Outer Worlds 2
Back in 2019, Obsidian Entertainment did the unthinkable and gave us The Outer Worlds, a brand-new, narrative-driven RPG among the stars – a realisation of the “Fallout in space” dreams that have circled on message boards for over a decade. Set in a galaxy driven by capitalism and greed, you...
Persona 3 Reload
In recent years, the Persona series has grown dramatically in popularity, shifting from an underappreciated gem to a globally recognised powerhouse – largely thanks to the runaway success of Persona 5. While P5 has been released on almost every modern gaming system across the vanilla release and the later Persona...
Ninja Gaiden 4
Team Ninja is back with Ninja Gaiden 4, this time teaming up with PlatinumGames for a title published by Xbox Game Studios. Those who enjoyed previous entries in this series will find a lot to like about this new title, which is old school in almost every way. The problem...
Ball x Pit
Despite having a silly name — do you pronounce the “x” or not — Ball x Pit does what it says on the tin: it features a bevy of balls, and takes place in a pit. What it really is, though, is a wave-based brick breaker turned into a highly addictive roguelite.
Battlefield 6
It’s hard to overstate the levels of hype surrounding Battlefield 6. Rewind to six months ago though, and things were pretty quiet. The previous entry in the series, Battlefield 2042, was an unmitigated disaster. Widely disliked by even the most hardcore franchise fans, 2042 featured a suite of unpopular design...
Tarsier Studios may have been acquired by Embracer Group, but Little Nightmares lives on at Bandai Namco, now under the care of Dark Pictures‘ Supermassive Games. Though the masters of narrative horror nail the look and feel of the franchise, it itself may be a little long in the tooth, and poorly conceived.
LEGO Party
We’ve had a number of Mario Kart clones over the past few years, and even a Smash Bros clone here or there, but Mario Party clones have been few and far between, until now. Meet LEGO Party, a bundle of mini-games looking to compete, if not best, Nintendo’s juggernaut.
Hotel Barcelona
Hotel Barcelona is the latest from cult favourites SUDA51 (No More Heroes) and SWERY (Deadly Premonition), and is as weird as those who recognise those developers’ names will expect it to be. A 2.5D sidescrolling roguelite, White Owls’ latest title will surely appeal to those who lap up surreal experience, though those who want...