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Shots fired Guns! They’re great, aren’t they? In games, we mean. The look and feel of a good gun can single-handedly transform a by-the-numbers shooter into something a bit special. And it helps if it looks badass too, since you spend 99% of your in-game time staring at the back …

Ever since Netflix went digital and allowed subscribers the opportunity to instantly gorge on thousands of films and TV shows, I’ve been wondering if gaming would ever get to the point where it could offer a similar service. Sony’s attempt with PlayStation Now (opens in new tab) was a move …

As explained in our Horizon: Zero Dawn review (opens in new tab), the PS4’s latest exclusive is a spectacular achievement for Guerrilla Games. For a studio that has focussed for over a decade on making largely linear shooters, the shift to a wide open action role-playing game with an emphasis …

Of all the captains in Star Trek, Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine is the one carrying the heaviest weight. Kirk is a charming explorer who loses friends and family. Picard is a charismatic, fearless scholar whose very humanity is stolen away. Their losses come well after we know them, …

For every Ken, Ryu, or Skullomania that makes it into a Street Fighter roster, many more potential characters don’t progress beyond their initial design stage. We sat down with game director Takayuki Nakayama to review some official concepts for Street Fighter 5 that didn’t make the cut… Elizabeth If a …

Within the first 30 minutes of popular episodic adventure game Life Is Strange, protagonist Max Caulfield has a disturbing vision of her town being torn apart by a tornado, witnesses one of her classmates shoot an old friend in the bathroom and learns that she has the ability to rewind …

Drag me to ‘Hill The cancellation of Silent Hills was just cruel. So much terrifying potential lurked in the single corridor of P.T that a full game might have been too much fear to actually handle. So, in mourning of what could have been, lets take a look back at …

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab) is only a week away. It’s the most-anticipated Nintendo title of a generation, which will likely be the metric used to measure the success of the Switch. I recently got the chance to play the final version of …

This interview was conducted by Official PlayStation Magazine Despite bagging a top ten spot in our 2016 Game Of The Year list, Hitman isn’t quite done. Just before Christmas we were surprised by the festive feast of a Home Alone-inspired Paris makeover (the two targets being the hapless goons from …

Well that was unexpected Sometimes a change of pace is good. We may love a game to pixels and be happy to while away our days in its digital landscape, but once you start hitting 10, 20, 50-hour benchmarks, variety starts to become a necessity. It’s not hard to inject …