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With rose-tinted nostalgia glasses on, people tend to mis-remember Final Fantasy 7. The bombastic moments that challenged players’ expectations of what a PS1 game was capable of stick in the mind. But for many, despite only being the opening of the story, the Midgar section felt like the core of …

With the back to school season looming, it makes sense to ensure your brain is back in fighting shape after the long vacation. That’s why we’ve found the best brain training games to nudge your neurons back to life.  Even if the science is a little bit fuzzy on whether …

2018 may have been a good year for video game releases, but it was also a year in which the industry’s reputation took an undeserved hit. On top of the Trump administration’s continued scapegoating of the medium, the rise of Fortnite (opens in new tab) has led to heightened fears …

As well as being known for its tongue-in-cheek sense of humour, cartoonish graphics, and general disdain for the laws of physics, Borderlands 3 is really known for its guns. Whole mountains of them. Borderlands had a total of 17.75 million procedurally-generated guns. Borderlands 2 upped the game with a more …

Xbox One X Enhanced games will bring out the very best in Microsoft’s powerful high-end console. These games come in all shapes and sizes – exclusive or multiplatform, current or backwards compatible, available now or still to come – but no matter the circumstances, they’re going to look excellent. Visual …

There are a lot of things from 1997 that haven’t stood the test of time. Alien Resurrection, the song Mmmbop, Teen Angel, my crush on Leonardo Di Caprio, but the new Final Fantasy 7 Remake (opens in new tab) stands up to its modern rivals and then some. We’ve all …

With E3 2019 (opens in new tab) winding down it’s time to look back across the week and imagine what could have been. Sure, there are loads of really awesome E3 2019 games (opens in new tab) to look forward to now, but we can’t help but think about all …

There’s dramatic irony, and then there’s the The Outer Worlds (opens in new tab) and the way it is relentlessly satirising corporatism when its makers have just been acquired by one of the largest corporations in the world. Given their penchant for seeing the funny side of things, though, it …

The shock news is that Konami’s long-running Pro Evolution Soccer series has rebranded as eFootball PES 2020. What’s less clear is why PES has focused on eSports and how it affects long-term fans of the series. We sat down to play 30 minutes of PES 2020 (we can’t bring ourselves …

Bandai Namco’s bite-’em-up wants to bring all the long-forgotten vampiric original characters of your early tweenaged nightmares to unlife at long last. An impressively granular character creation system allows you to finely tune the appearance of your resurrected Revenant. You can combine a number of hair style parts to create that …