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I don’t trust the Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim NPC that I’ve tailed to the outskirts of Riverwood. On the face of it, he looks like any other handsome Nordman – shiny long hair, stubbled chain, pointed features, piercing blue eyes – but there’s something off about the way he’s been …

All of my villagers are gathered outside the museum for the opening ceremony of The Roost café in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It’s been a long time since I’ve celebrated the arrival of something new on Iced Tea island, and this moment feels especially emotional. Brewster and Blathers stand either …

With its singular design and strong emphasis on futuristic input controls and 3D audio technologies, the PS5 hit its opening year with plenty of dynamism and attitude. But beside Xbox Series X, with its advanced cloud-gaming and streaming services, and its abandonment of the whole concept of the console-exclusive, PS5’s …

When developer DMA Design launched Grand Theft Auto in 1997, it caused one hell of a shit storm. The top-down crime simulator that portrayed low-res sprites stealing cars and murdering police officers hit the tabloid news headlines like a bullet. It was too real, despite not really looking real at …

FIFA 22 may have more than 700 teams, but the only one I care about is unique to my game. Thanks to the Create-A-Club section of Career Mode, I can finally go off on a footballing journey that offers the sort of stakes and intrigue you might expect from a …

Wandering around in a single, wet, slightly stinky sock looking for ants to photograph isn’t how I expected Toem to lure me in, but here we are. This hand-drawn, monochrome adventure from Swedish developer Something We Made is a game where you solve puzzles with your camera. It’s not complicated …

Alan Wake is about to discover if there’s any value in exposure. It’s a question that every struggling writer must confront at some stage of their career, and the New York native turned Dark Place hostage would certainly have reason to believe that his ten-year strain of writer’s block is …

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is ready to bring your favorite cartoon characters into a slapstick fray – starting with CatDog and April O’Neil, both of whom were just announced at today’s Future Games Show.  CatDog was a much-requested character after the game was announced earlier this year, but don’t expect any …

Marvel’s Midnight Suns might have been talked about in hushed tones for months now as Marvel XCOM, but now that it’s finally been officially revealed we can see that it’s clearly so much more than that. Sure, it might be coming at a time where the monolithic superhero studio’s stable …

Tattoos in video games are tricky. When done right, they add an extra layer of immersion to a game world. When done wrong, they can feel jarringly out of sync with either the game’s art style or the tattooed character in question. Tattoos are powerful visual markers that can help …