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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review – a thrilling airport novel of a game

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Activision; PC, PS5, Switch 2, XboxFrom parkour over Manhattan rooftops and car chases in Paris to the climactic battle at a North Korean air base, the developers have thrown absolutely everything at the gameAnd so we return perhaps one final time to Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare strand, with stories, “ripped from the newspaper headlines”,

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From Mario to machine guns: how Ubisoft Paris made Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Tactics

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The studio is swapping the Mushroom Kingdom’s vivid palette for the blood-soaked grit of military action seriesWhere do you go after Mario? It’s a question the team at Ubisoft Paris found itself pondering three years ago after wrapping up work on the charming turn-based tactics adventure, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, sequel to its

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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse review – every fantastical vampire-hunting vision is fulfilled

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Evil Empire/Konami; PC, PS5, Switch, XboxThere are buzzsaws and blood pits, bats burst into blood and demons burn to cinders. The series’ new emphasis on twitch-based action may annoy purists but you can’t call it dullA gorgeously gothic Paris swarming with demons should be a perfect setting for Konami’s long-running vampiric adventure series. Unfortunately, while

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End Of Abyss review – a creepy dollhouse take on Resident Evil and The Thing

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PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Epic Games PublishingThis fetchingly presented horror game brings style and scares, but overextends itself with repetitionA small band of soldiers enters an abandoned facility, where puckered flesh sprouts from cold steel. It’s a promising but familiar start to a sci-fi horror story, with heavy overtones of Alien and The

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Silver Pines review – a stylish, neo-noir detective drama

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PC, PS5, Switch 2; Wych Elm Games, Team 17Abandoned shops, ruined apartment buildings and rotting sewer networks make up a dark landscape in which you play a private eye searching for a missing singer-songwriterIn a weird deserted town miles from anywhere, a troubled detective searches for a missing musician and the girl he may or

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Control Resonant review – save New York from paranormal phenomena

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PlayStation 5, Xbox, PC; RemedyA surprisingly conventional game from a famously weird developer, this sequel to 2019’s Control is accomplished but safeThis is an arthouse action game from Finnish developer Remedy, masters of exactly this type of thing. It’s a sequel, however, so not only must it clear the high bar that its strikingly distinctive

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Marvel’s Wolverine review – a gloriously conflicted lead is let down by crude, boring battling

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PlayStation 5; Insomniac GamesLogan is well realised by Liam McIntyre and some exquisite character art, but there are lapses in narrative and emotional arcs and some of the combat feels like a choreIt was always going to be difficult to follow Spider-Man. Insomniac’s three games based around the web-slinger are masterpieces of superhero wish fulfilment,

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Star Wars Zero Company review – joyfully absurd heroics with a tight-knit team of misfits

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PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, PC; Bit ReactorSplit priorities between scripted and emergent story moments hamper an otherwise brilliant Star Wars-themed successor to XCOMEven if you’re unfamiliar with the term “emergent storytelling”, you’ve likely experienced some of the unscripted tales that can bubble up out of a game’s systems. Perhaps you’ve led a scheming dynasty

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The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past – Geralt of Rivia returns after a decade in the sun

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Before The Witcher 4 arrives in 2028, CD Projekt Red is returning us to the world of The Witcher 3 for one last foray. Looks like wind’s still howlin’The game that graced us with Bathtub Geralt, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, arrived more than a decade ago. So it was a touch surprising this summer

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With the end of physical media in sight, gamers have had enough

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An increasing tension between players and publishers about ownership of titles could lead to a divestment from the system the big companies are trying to enforceAt the time of press, there is a well-publicised protest taking place in the video games community. PlayStation 5 owners are being encouraged to log off from their consoles between

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