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PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, PC; Asobo StudioThe medieval franchise is transplanted to Crete, conjuring action-adventure magic from familiar ingredientsThe path in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is a familiar one. Amid ancient ruins and sun-dappled gorges, a young woman, Sophia, dutifully treads the same footsteps as a Minoan warrior from millennia ago, one with
Free from a big brand’s audience expectations, new studio GPTrack50 has created a wacky action-packed romp through a monster-filled world for its first gameLove is blind. In Stupid Never Dies, it is also frozen solid and technically dead as Davy, the weakest zombie in monster society, discovers Julia’s body in a shopping centre and falls
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Creative Assembly could strike gold again with this follow-up to their fan-favourite, film-inspired game … if you’re brave enough to venture outdoorsAlien: Isolation redefined Alien games on its release in 2014, bringing the original taut, haunted house theme of the first movie to fans who had mostly been fed action-packed shooters. Cowering under desks and
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After the success of space horror Mouthwashing, Swedish developer Wrong Organ has created a Battlefield-inspired co-op with a supernatural twist‘Claustrophobic”, “oppressive”, “pretty depressing” – these are the words Jeffrey Tomec and Dave van Egdom volunteer when I ask them to reflect on their work as part of Swedish indie developer Wrong Organ. I’d add “nightmare-inducing”,
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Being a woman who loves video games has often felt lonely, like being on a hostile planet – but Metroid’s female space hunter has been with me all the way It’s 1986, and you’re playing a brand-new game. (You’re in Japan in this scenario, by the way; the game in question, Metroid, won’t come to
PC, Xbox, PlayStation 5; Game Freak/FictionsGame Freak channels a post-apocalyptic reality that reflects our own repetitive erosion cycles, with a fair bit of hand-holdingMost of your time in Beast of Reincarnation is spent collecting last words. You cross paths with robots lying on the ground, who muster whatever energy they have left to provide guidance.
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From horror galore to Chinese action games and YRK nostalgia, the key trends, trailers and surprises from the Summer Game Fest• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereDid you spend hours of your weekend watching a relentless series of video game adverts? No? I don’t blame you – Summer Game Fest,
As Hollywood searches for its next iteration of the superspy, the actor explains how he earned pop culture’s most sought-after role – and how he’s taking 007 back to basicsThey expect you to die! The history of Bond in video games, from the good to the badIs any acting gig more contested than James Bond?
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PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox; Yacht Club GamesThis brilliant adventure creates a whole world from one character with a unique abilityYou could mistake Mina the Hollower for something found on the liquid-crystal display of a Game Boy Color around the turn of the millennium. Like the pocketable Zelda and Pokémon games
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PC, Xbox; Sad Cat StudiosThis pulpy sci-fi thriller is a beautiful, if deferential, homage to the genre greats, with a poignant real-world echoFor all of cyberpunk’s cautionary tales of shady corporations and transhumanist folly, it is the genre’s arresting imagery that looms largest in the pop culture imagination. Petroleum flares light up the perpetually rainy
Replaced review – nostalgic cyberpunk tribute has few ideas of its own Read More »
