What happened to Marissa Marcel? That question lies at the heart of Immortality, the upcoming video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story, and Half Mermaid, the production company behind Telling Lies. If you’re unfamiliar with either of these fantastic independent releases, Barlow describes them as using “subtext and …
Read More »Modern roguelikes are in great shape – but where does the genre go next?
Derek Yu is amazed by the variation in Roguelike games which has emerged in recent years, and the versatility of the format it revealed. “It’s kind of like finding a hundred new ways to use toothpaste,” he says. “It’s proven itself to be a design framework that’s extremely flexible and …
Read More »Exploring the resurgence of the low-fi 3D visual style of the PS1 era
The idea of new games emulating the style of titles from bygone eras is far from rare in the modern gaming landscape. Pixel-art platformers from Fez to Shovel Knight, SNES-inspired Metroidvanias like Axiom Verge and Owlboy, and many more besides, have established the indie-driven revival of the 16-bit era as …
Read More »Inside the revival of social stealth games
Will Wright is certain: “That’s not gonna work.” Maxis is mid-development on Spore, and an engineer named Chris Hecker is describing an ambitious side project. An asymmetrical multiplayer game called SniperParty, its premise is as binary as its title: one player attends a party as a spy, blending into the …
Read More »Star Wars: An alternative video game galaxy far, far away
When George Lucas first sat down to pen a story about a hopeful farm boy with dreams of space travel, odds are he didn’t foresee how popular further adventures set in that galaxy far, far away would become. Forget spawning eight direct sequels and a handful of spin-offs, Star Wars …
Read More »Madden 22 ratings list with of top five players at every position
Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Donald topping the Madden 22 ratings list is hardly a shock, but they aren’t the only members of the Madden 22 99 Club. The Madden 22 default roster, correct as of August 20, also awards top marks to Davante Adams, Travis Kelce, and Jalen Ramsey. Sorry, …
Read More »Assassins Creed Valhalla Dawn of Ragnarok sees you play as Odin in the Kingdom of the Dwarves
With Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, Ubisoft Sofia is setting out to bring us the biggest and most ambitious expansion we’ve seen in the series so far. While the base experience has already explored Eivor’s connection to Odin in mythological realms like Jotunheim and Asgard, Dawn of Ragnarok will …
Read More »20 best video game consoles of all time
The release of the PS5 and Xbox Series X got us thinking – what are the best video game consoles of all time? Then again, with the Golden Joystick Awards celebrating 50 years of gaming, maybe this framing isn’t wide enough. So we took it to you, the GamesRadar+ readers …
Read More »Hands-on with Dying Light 2 and its bigger, better, and strangely familiar
Dying Light 2’s magic is in its momentum. Techland may have spent the better part of three years pulling focus onto the malleable open world it has engineered, where a choice can have sweeping consequences on the shape of the space around you, but the real draw is its movement. …
Read More »Animal Crossing New Horizons Pro Camera App let me go on a magical first-person walk around my island
Walking along the sandy shores of my island has never been quite as immersive as this. From a first-person perspective, I’m able to move along pathways I put down months ago and marvel at the shiny texture of a seashell stool that has decorated the beachfront for as long as …
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