If you’ve seen Netflix’s Arcane League of Legends animated series, there’s a high probability you really like it – the show’s great, even for non-League of Legends fans. It tells the heartwrenching story of sisters Vi and Jinx and their struggle to come to terms with each other in the high-tech (and magical) utopian city of Piltover and its seedy underbelly known […]

Jusant asks players to do one thing: climb. As a silent mountaineer accompanied by a cute critter, the only thing standing between you and your mysterious mission is one very tall mountain. The journey to its summit is treacherous, but thanks to an ingenious climbing system, beautiful art direction, and intriguing world-building, inching toward the top is worth the effort.  […]

Ahead of the premiere (release? Launch?) of the experimental Silent Hill Ascension tonight, we had a chance to speak with the developer Genvid about the game (TV show? Crowd-directed narrative?) is, what it will mean to the Silent Hill universe, and how much work is going into animating the versions of the narrative that may never be seen. Calling Ascension […]

A target appears on your back when you’re a long-reigning champ. No longer the enigma you once were, contenders begin studying your body of work to figure out the path to ending your time at the top. The best way to fend off would-be challengers is to continually build and evolve. Developer EA Vancouver seems to understand this because while […]

In the technical world of city-builders, 2015’s Cities: Skylines made a name for itself as an uncompromising but delicate game where players needed to spin a variety of municipal plates to keep things in order across their fantasy cities. Eight years and millions of digital building permits later, Colossal Order has returned to construct a convincing sequel in Cities: Skylines […]

Microsoft has delivered a cracker here. This is the best Minecraft game since, well Minecraft. Where the last spin-off title Dungeons was a decent little action adventure game, Legends builds on that whilst also bringing into the fray the best elements of the original block builder. What you get is an action-strategy title that’s built for multiple platform cross-play gaming […]

It can be rare for a newer franchise to challenge a well-established genre leader for the throne, but that’s precisely what the Forza Motorsport series has done since its first entry in 2005. Since then, the sim-racing genre has featured dueling front-runners, with Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport taking turns in the lead. The latest entry, simply titled Forza Motorsport, […]

Bookmark Thank you for subscribing! We have more newsletters Pokemon GO developers Niantic have just held their October Community Day and as expected this meant plenty of Pokemon GO news and rewards for trainers. Whilst trainers got three-hour lures, reduced egg hatch distances and an influx of Beldum in the wild, the biggest addition to the event was a brand new shiny. […]

The third installment in this online bank heist series isn’t what gamers hoped it would be. For a title that’s all about internet play, its launch connection is all over the place on PS5. And the service is lacking in content depth and consistency, which immediately turns you off what could be a very good game. This first-person shooter centres […]

Bookmark Thank you for subscribing! We have more newsletters Classic dungeon-crawler series Diablo is back for a fourth instalment and it adds an extra next-gen console sheen to an already great franchise. Fans of previous Diablos will dive straight in and feel like they’ve put on a warm pair of well-known slippers with this release. It’s a very familiar action […]