The open-world driving game is a genre that exists because it can: it came about purely because advances in games design technology made it much easier for developers to create huge open worlds. But as
Over the last year or so, Bethesda has been quite the champion of the Switch, bringing both The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the DOOM reboot to Nintendo’s hybrid console. The latest addition to this growing library of AAA
Spare a moment to consider the Wii U’s plight – home to dozens of great games, but played by barely anyone because the console never quite caught on. That disparity between software quality and overall
You might imagine that being easy to describe is a handy attribute for a videogame to have – at least as far as reviewers of said game are concerned. But if a game is too
Poor old Sonic: according to received wisdom, the much-loved blue hedgehog was doomed to remain forever stuck in the 1990s, like an insect in amber. When 3D platform games usurped their two-dimensional side-scrolling forebears in
Persistence by name, persistence by necessity – Sony’s latest virtual reality effort places you in a vast space ship where things have all gone a bit Event Horizon, and putting them right will take many,
After becoming one of the great modern champions of multiplayer co-op gaming in 2016, Overcooked is back with more kitchen carnage – and most importantly, more of canine mascot Kevin – than ever before. As with the
Despite being set in an alternate 1960s where World War II ended very differently, We Happy Few could be just as damning an examination of what a post-Brexit Britain might look like. Bereft of allies and with
To some, Shenmue is a legendary game, a pioneer of the kinds of open world RPGs that have become common since the original took its bow on Dreamcast back at the turn of the millennium. To others,
At its best, Warhammer: 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr feels like a cross between Doom and Diablo. Featuring the gore-soaked combat and gritty sci-fi setting of the former with the top-down view and looting-and-leveling loop of the latter, it’s fun for