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As we hurtle towards the busiest period of the gaming year, when you’ve literally got Super Mario Odyssey (opens in new tab), Assassin’s Creed Origins (opens in new tab) and Wolfenstein 2 coming out on the same day, we wouldn’t blame your wallet if it was crying in a corner …

Mining into your heart Maybe you’ve never heard of Minecraft. But pretty everyone’s heard of Minecraft – even my mum knows what it is and she doesn’t know how to turn on my computer. The building/world exploration game that’s basically on every gaming platform you can think of, from PC …

There’s nothing quite like getting stuck into a brand new RPG, delving into lands unknown and meeting all the people that dwell within them. But there’s no getting away from the fact that some of the main quests can be riddled with clichés. Save one princess/planet/galaxy and you’ve saved them …

Jon Bernthal’s fist fills the monitor screen, the camera tight on his sharp white knuckles and furious veins. The fingers clutch and unclench, shuddering with barely repressed rage. As faintly terrifying hand acting goes, our sister publication SFX magazine is witnessing a masterclass. “Nothing in this world I hate more …

Progression in Forza 7 (opens in new tab) isn’t exactly straightforward, with a few different barriers to progression. None can be instantly bypassed, so here’s how to progress to higher race tiers and get the best cars in Forza 7 fastest. The main ‘career mode’ is called the Forza Driver’s …

When Capcom announced Monster Hunter World at E3, it was clear this series entry is doing things a bit differently. It’s the first proper console game since Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate 2013 and it’s actually offering you a semi-open world to explore, full of beasties to hunt that exist within …

Let’s just skip past that unfortunate Crackdown 3 2018 delay (opens in new tab) and get straight to what the Xbox One X (opens in new tab) game is all about: Power. It’s a game that has always been interested in exploring the pursuit of power. This isn’t something that it …

*Beware: spoilers for The Mist season 1 inside* And it’s over. Done. Complete and probably never to be renewed again. However, if there’s ever a TV series that wants – no, NEEDS – a season 2, it’s The Mist, simply because story-wise it isn’t actually over. Not even close. Ending …

For many of us, Rainbow Six Siege (opens in new tab) is a game that came and went. Though there was the standard Ubisoft marketing build-up prior to launch, some early stumbles and tepid critical reception combined with a dearth of content to shuffle Siege quickly out of the gaming …

It is, by now, a very familiar story. A studio spends years beavering away on a game, staging carefully-managed demos and releasing beautifully-edited videos that highlight their work-in-progress project in the best possible light. And then this game finally launches, and the world realises that this isn’t the choreographed experience …