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In announcing its intention to acquire ZeniMax Media for 7.5 billion dollars, Xbox just changed the shape of the video game industry. In the last two weeks alone, Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox Series S, detailed the Xbox Series X pre-order plans, launched its cloud gaming initiative as part of …

I need to start this off with an apology to the dev team at Harmonix. In my latest hands-on with Fuser, where I got to mess around in Freestyle mode and upload some of my mixes to the game’s social tab, they might have come across my attempt to make …

When you consider there hasn’t been a brand new Ratchet and Clank adventure in close to seven years, blasting holes in the space-time continuum is definitely one hell of a comeback. Due to launch in the PS5 (opens in new tab) “launch window”, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is set …

November has somehow become this year’s gaming Christmas. It’s the release date for Cyberpunk 2077 (opens in new tab), Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (opens in new tab), the Fortnite The Last Laugh Bundle, and – most likely – the new PS5 (opens in new tab) and Xbox Series X (opens in …

Movie adaptations of video games have a rocky history. For every success (Resident Evil) there’s a handful of duds (Doom, Hitman) that leave executives slamming the brakes on future releases. Recent hits such as Detective Pikachu (opens in new tab) and the Sonic movie (opens in new tab) seem to …

There’s an enormous burden of expectation that comes with following up a game like Super Mario World. Retro Gamer (opens in new tab) readers voted it the greatest game of all time, and many would argue that it was as close as you could get to a perfect game, as …

I nearly bounced off Chernobylite hard. Its spooky set up of exploring an irradiated, monster-filled Chernobyl explains nothing. After wandering cluelessly around a forest for a while, with nothing more than 10 bullets for a revolver only slightly more damaging than a bad Yelp review, I died. Then I shut …

Everyone’s favourite Community Assisted Racing Simulator returns for a second sequel in the form of Project Cars 3, and we’ve been given days’ worth of unmonitored access to an unfinished but impressively full-featured version of the game on PC to poke about with. But what is immediately apparent is how …

Grounded is a game unlike any other Obsidian has ever created. It’s a survival RPG where you’re shrunk down to the size of an ant and have to craft, build, and fight in order to survive a hostile backyard. It’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids meets Castaway – and you’re …

I can hear a faint, repetitive thud as the ambient sounds of the forest at night surround me. Specks of light that look like stars dance across the crimson red sky, framed by silhouetted trees spiking up from the earth. Words appear and the story begins, and within moments the …