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From the earth-shattering Halo Combat Evolved to the huge open-world games we enjoy today on Xbox One, Official Xbox Magazine (opens in new tab) details the 100 Xbox games of all time – all still playable courtesy of back compatibility and Game Pass. We talk to Xbox’s Aaron Greenberg about …

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 …

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 …

“We only have a few hours to live up to this hero shit,” says Jessica Jones halfway through her third season. Talk about an on the-nose comment: for its final outing (on Netflix, at least), showrunner Melissa Rosenberg’s Marvel adaptation faces the task of providing a send-off for both the …

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 …

Bethesda has one hell of a vision for the end of the world. In Rage 2 (opens in new tab), an open world wasteland is being constructed that’s full of vibrant colours, huge explosions, and a host of gaudy characters to meet, greet, and eviscerate. It’s a far cry from …

Developer Frogwares has an impressive track record, but what the studio is doing in The Sinking City (opens in new tab) is more ambitious than anything it’s done to date. Their upcoming PS4 detective RPG is set in the fictional 1920s city of Oakmont where supernatural floods are driving the …

If there’s one thing we can learn from the last two Battlefield outings, set in their particularly crisp and atmospheric renditions of World War 1 (Battlefield 1 (opens in new tab)) and World War 2 (Battlefield 5 (opens in new tab)), it’s that war back then was carnage. These were …

It may surprise you to hear that Takashi Iizuka (opens in new tab)’s favourite character isn’t, in fact, Sonic. “I’ve always liked Shadow as a character,” the producer of Team Sonic Racing (opens in new tab) tells us, “but I really wanted him to have a cool car, so we …

Frostbite, Unity, Unreal… we’ve all heard of the world’s most popular game engines and seen their logos in front of games such as PUBG, Firewatch and Battlefield V (opens in new tab). You’ve probably seen their jaw-dropping tech demos (opens in new tab) that highlight advancements in lighting, animation, physics …