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This isn’t a traditional Halo (opens in new tab) game. The series has moved on for a new generation of consoles, and you need to move with it. Accept that, and there’s loads to love in the game’s new story mode, which is entirely playable in co-op. Oh, and it’s …

[Warning: Spoilers for Asura’s Wrath and the God of War series below.] I’ve never liked Kratos much, mostly because I’m not as impressed with him as God of War clearly wants me to be. Sure, it looks spectacular when he kills a Titan by jamming a two-story spike through its …

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a video game minecart that was used for its original purpose of transporting coal. Any time you see a hunk of metal stock with four wheels resting atop a rickety railing, you know you’re about to experience the polar opposite of hard labor: a …

Romance in games has become commonplace. In the M-rated RPG space populated by hits like Dragon Age: Inquisition (opens in new tab) and The Witcher 3 (opens in new tab), it’s assumed that there’ll be some component that lets you strike up conversation, bond, and eventually have sex with a …

If there’s one thing Gearbox does better than anyone else, it’s building RPG-shooters that look like they’ve jumped straight out of a comic book. Borderlands has become the studio’s international calling card, so if you’re going to build another IP that involves co-operative shooting in a cartoon setting, how do …

If you pay close attention in Bloodborne, you learn that a werewolf’s ultimate weakness isn’t quicksilver or wolfsbane – it’s doors. Specifically, it’s doorframes that are too big for their hulking bodies to fit through. You can stand on the other side and comfortably hack them to death without any …

Journey (opens in new tab) is in a weird place on PS4. Its transition to Sony’s new hardware very much mirrors the experience of its nameless protagonist… everything within the game looks very familiar, but the way it’s actually viewed on this second outing is very, very different. Many people …

Commander Shepard is many things: hero, flirt, compassionate friend, callous pragmatist and more. But while BioWare offers a host of opportunities to steer your character’s moral temperament and actions, humanity’s first Spectre has constants, too. For instance, Shepard is always a ship’s captain. Of the two vessels to bear the …

The outside of Peach’s Castle was 3D gaming’s gentle introductory playground. It seems oddly sparse today: just a cluster of trees and a lake devoid of traditional game-like challenge. But that’s the point. Nintendo built Mario 64 on a foundation of technological breakthrough with its sprawling 3D worlds, but nothing …

I’m an, uh, unabashed lover of all things Jeff Goldblum. I adore his turns as a brilliant mathematician with a strange laugh (opens in new tab), an expert on artisan knots (opens in new tab), the confident spokesman for Waitmate (opens in new tab), a neurosurgeon named New Jersey (opens …