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Beast of Reincarnation review – a taxing reflection of human-made damage

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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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There Are No Ghosts at the Grand – stripping back the physical and metaphorical layers of a haunted hotel

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Renovate rooms, investigate the supernatural and watch people burst into song in this surreal British ghost storyA young American man arrives in a dilapidated British seaside town to take on the renovations of an equally run-down hotel, inherited from a mysteriously absent father he never knew. His power tools talk to him in a Scottish

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The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales review – a playable love letter to Zelda

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PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 2, PC; Team Asano/Square EnixUpbeat, charmingly retro RPG full of treasure-hunting, temple-roaming, monster-slaying and princess-saving is an absolute blast to playYou can’t help but wonder if developer Team Asano is in a private competition with itself to come up with the most ridiculous name for a video game. Following Project

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Eight trends I’ve noticed from watching hour of livestreams from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and more

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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,

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‘Nurse, the joypad!’: the eight greatest medical video games

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For anyone needing a break from binging The Pitt, you can always put in your own shifts as a hospital manager, surgeon, paramedic and of course as a demonic morgue assistantLike the rest of the western world, our household is currently binging medical drama The Pitt, revelling in its visceral depiction of life in a

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Less respawning, more re-rolling: six of the best board games based on video games

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From war zones and socially virtuous farming to ever-changing boards and role-playing with 167 dice, here’s our pick of the most absorbing table-based entertainmentVideo games have long been heavily inspired by physical games, from chess and Scrabble to Dungeons & Dragons. The deck-building collectible card game, for example, has become immensely popular in digital form,

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Pokémon Pokopia review – collectible creatures create their own perfect world

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Nintendo Switch 2; Game Freak/Omega Force/Nintendo Work together with a bunch of lovable Pokémon to restore a long-abandoned town in this novel, absorbing game that’s quite unlike others in the seriesBear with me here: Pokémon has always had an environmentalist subtext. As you wander its verdant, creature-filled worlds, collecting species like an acquisitive David Attenborough,

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Resident Evil Requiem review – there’s plenty of life in the undead yet

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Fear, fights and feverish fanservice collide in this celebration of Resident Evil’s recent and retro legacyPC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 2; CapcomThere’s often an undercurrent of existential fatigue in games that look back at their legacy. Dark Souls III’s dying kingdom, Metal Gear Solid 4’s decrepit Snake. So when Capcom showed us an ageing

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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles review – remastered 1997 classic is even more politically resonant now

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PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, Xbox, PC; Square-EnixThis landmark role-playing game remains a revolutionary tour de forceAt first glance, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, first released in 1997 and now available in newly remastered guise, does little to separate itself from other boilerplate fantasy fiction. There is a hero, Ramza – an idealistic nobleman

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The video games you may have missed in 2025

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Date a vending machine, watch intergalactic television and make the most out of your short existence as a fly. Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year• The 20 best video games of 2025• More on the best culture of 2025PS5, Xbox, Switch, PCHave you ever wanted to romance your record player? Date

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