“Hat’s entertainment!” may not be an actual phrase, but you can’t deny the effect that sporting a strong piece of headgear has on our favourite gaming characters. From Parappa’s beanie to Jill Valentine’s beret, we’ve picked out the best titfers from the history of PlayStation gaming. Mortal Kombat Hat’s all, …

What is it? A quirky, politically aware sci-fi visual novel/adventure game heavily inspired by the cult classic Snatcher. Play it if you like? Good detective stories, Sega CD adventure games, anything that could be reasonably described as ‘rad’. Format: PC/PS4/Vita Price: $19.99/£17.99 Release date: PC/PS4 (out now), Vita (sometime in …

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8: Final Chapter Prologue, like all Kingdom Hearts games for the past decade and a half, prominently features Utada Hikaru’s pop song ‘Simple and Clean’. Now more than ever, it’s clear that this theme song is not just catchy as hell, it’s also some kind of ongoing …

Overwatch (opens in new tab)’s Year of the Rooster in-game event won’t just be a token acknowledgment of the Chinese New Year. A video leaked from Chinese social media site Weibo and shared on Reddit (opens in new tab) shows Mei, Mercy, Symmetra and other heroes getting new skins, plus …

If you’re busy trying to figure out just what’s going to go down in Game of Thrones season 7 (opens in new tab) then it might be comforting to know that most of the actors don’t even know what’s in store for Westeros in this summer’s season – but the …

Xur, Destiny (opens in new tab)’s travelling weekend trader, surrealist sculptor, and seven-time Screwball Scramble grand champion, is back. This week he’s in the Tower, over near the Speaker, and he’s selling the following things, should you wish to buy them.  • Helm of Inmost Light (Exotic Titan helmet) – …

Nintendo’s expansion into the world of smartphones isn’t stopping at Pokemon and Super Mario. On February 2, Fire Emblem will arrive on Android devices in the form of Fire Emblem Heroes, a small-scale take on the tactical RPG series. There are, as you might expect, some changes made to make …

Haven’t picked up Watch Dogs 2 (opens in new tab) yet? Ubisoft’s giving you three hours to explore its smart-phone dystopic vision of San Francisco via a free demo, available now on PS4 and coming on January 24 to Xbox One. The trial version is nearly identical to the full …

Where many fighting games insert a token story experience, it looks like Injustice 2 (opens in new tab) dev NetherRealm is going all out. Big-name DC villians and heroes are all set to appear in the studio’s follow-up to the 2013 original, and a new story trailer teases us with …

We did it. We’ve had a year off from Assassin’s Creed. Yes there was the side-scrolling Chronicles trilogy and the Assassin’s Creed movie (opens in new tab) but for the first time in seven years we didn’t get to climb, leap or stab our way through a new part of …