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Hitman 3 is the final instalment in the World of Assassination series that began with 2016’s Hitman reboot – a series which has given the venerable chrome-domed killer a new lease of life.
Already delayed multiple times this year (which frankly feels like a lifetime in 2020), it’s been a long wait for CD Projekt Red’s follow-up to its smash hit The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The wait combined with all the fevered discussion around the game has intensified to the point that gamers have...
Before this week, the only thing we knew about Gods & Monsters – whoops, we mean Immortals Fenyx Rising – was that Ubisoft changed the title because Monster Energy reportedly objected to it. Now we’ve spent some time with it – gliding through the cotton-puff clouds and galloping through its...
But then Demon’s Souls isn’t just any old game. Originally only released in Japan, the hardcore action RPG gained reverence through pure word of mouth, eventually leading to the more successful Dark Souls trilogy, which went on to influence whole generations of game developers, even if very few could ever...
As groundbreaking as the LittleBigPlanet series was, it never quite managed to elevate Sackboy to Sonic, Mario or even Crash levels of mascot status.
Swaddled with furs and tattoos – her Iron-Star flail swimming around her like the ill-behaved tentacle of an angry iron octopus – she’s a curious recruit to the Assassin’s Creed roster, not least because her propensity for violence makes her one of the game’s most unusual protagonists to date. She’s...
Any concerns fans have about Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales not living up to the excellence and ambition of its predecessor are squashed within minutes of donning the teenage superhero’s mask.
2020 has been a mostly awful year for obvious reasons, but for Mario fans it has at least in part also been a celebratory one.
Pep Guardiola’s sky-blue wave swept away everything in front of it for two seasons in a row, racking up records left, right and centre, but fell well short in 2019/20 and surrendered the title to Jurgen Klopp’s rampant Liverpool side.
Given the fluid definitions applied to gaming remasters, reboots, remakes, and re-imaginings, it can be difficult to know exactly what you’re getting into when you fire up a fresh take on an old favorite.
Be they a bandicoot, a wisecracking hedgehog, a posh explorer or a jumping space marine, no video game character is as iconic as Mario.
In this very occasionally lazy pop culture age we live in, news of yet another remake is often met with a collective sigh.
