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It’s been more than 20 years since the last Baldur’s Gate instalment revitalised computer role-playing games, ahead of consoles and big-budget 3D action RPGs showing up to dilute the genre. How many games can say they’ve been decades in the making? Certainly none that are as eagerly awaited as Larian...
Believe it or not, 2023’s most long-awaited Nintendo sequel isn’t Tears of the Kingdom; it’s Pikmin 4. First confirmed in a 2015 interview with series creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the latest entry in this strange but charming twist on real time strategy series has been a long time coming.
Capcom has been on a roll for its 40th anniversary year, riding high on remakes and sequels of its tried-and-true franchises. A genuinely new title from the Japanese publisher is an exciting prospect in theory. What we have in Exoprimal is another online-only, team-based live service game to suck up...
Given 2016 indie game Oxenfree’s Stranger Things vibes, taking inspiration from both coming-of-age teen dramas to supernatural horror from the 80s, it’s little wonder that Netflix snapped up the developer Night School Studios in 2021. The cult indie 2.5D graphic adventure has since been added to the streaming service’s own...
There’s been some fantastic Final Fantasy games in recent years, such as the remake of the much loved VII as well as each new expansion of MMO XIV Online, but a proper mainline sequel has been a long time coming. The long-running role-playing series always brings a fresh world and...
What is it about turning small numbers into bigger numbers that gamers find so primally compelling? Countless titles have co-opted the formula, but it was arguably perfected by the Diablo series. Big-name looter shooters like Destiny and Borderlands wouldn’t exist as they do today without the dark fantasy dungeon crawler’s...
Good fortune seems to come in even numbers for Street Fighter. That’s not to say other entries in this 36-year-old fighting game series are bad per se – but gamers around in the early 90s will remember what a seismic influence Street Fighter 2 had both at home and in...
What if Forza Horizon merged with Mario Kart and made all the cars Lego? Sounds pretty good, right? It’s also the simplest way of describing Lego 2K Drive, the slightly out of nowhere open-world kart racer from 2K and Visual Concepts. Serving up a series of sizeable and aggressively colourful biomes...
How do you follow a game like Breath of the Wild? It’s a question we’ve been grappling with since Nintendo first confirmed it was working on a sequel to its Switch console launch title that not only tore up the Legend of Zelda rulebook, but set a new gold standard...
Xbox was looking so rosy for 2023. Hi-Fi Rush surprise released at the start of the year alongside a seemingly confident Developer Direct stream, suggesting the drought of first-party Microsoft titles was coming to an end and finally its Xbox Game Pass service could be onto some big hitters. That’s...
The Star Wars universe has splintered off into other avenues in recent years, from The Mandalorian to Andor, but for most fans, what remains most fundamentally exciting about the franchise is the epic lightsaber battles.
We’d understand if Nintendo Switch owners are getting brain fatigue from all the strategy games released these past few months, but given Advance Wars is the granddaddy of them all, we’re happy to make an exception for Re-Boot Camp.
