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The complete Call of Duty Zombies story as told by Treyarch is coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (opens in new tab). The Zombies Chronicles DLC will collect the strange saga in one place, with eight remastered maps from across Call of Duty: World at War, Black Ops, …

One of the better-kept secrets in Destiny (opens in new tab) is the existence of five Golden Chests on each planet, as other than a small notification on your map screen when you start collecting them there’s very little to make these containers stand out as important. However, each one …

For Honor (opens in new tab) centres around medieval melee combat between warriors harking from three different martial traditions: knights, samurai, and vikings. Its core combat system has the depth of a fighting game, allowing for free-roaming duels between characters whose approach to combat varies but whose approach is always …

An away win at Anfield is considered one of the biggest scalps in football – and this weekend one fan will achieve that accolade and a cool $20,000 (£15,580), simply for being good at PES 2017 (opens in new tab). Okay, ‘simply’ may be something of an understatement. The overall …

Prepare the ban hammer. If you’ve been playing video games for more than five minutes, you know they have a tendency to be moral outrage magnets. If you can name it, games have been blamed for it, so it’s not too shocking that game bans have followed in force. For …

Nothing breaks up the intensity of an edge-of-your-seat action shooter like trying to pick off quick-moving fireflies with a fully automatic machine gun. Fortunately, your patience is rewarded with skill points, and if you can exterminate all 21 Electrofly swarms throughout Bulletstorm’s campaign, you’ll earn the Pest Control trophy or …

Mimic is the one ability in Prey (opens in new tab) that everyone has fixated on, and for good reason – there are so few games in this world that let you turn into a coffee mug or banana. But there’s a lot more you can do with the genetic …

Dinklebot has returned. Love it or hate it (okay let’s be honest, nobody loved it), Peter Dinklage’s performance as Ghost was one of the defining features of vanilla Destiny (opens in new tab). And thanks to the Age of Triumph (opens in new tab), an in-game event celebrating the first …

Rumours, and a few teasing clues, are pointing to a new WWII Call of Duty (opens in new tab). Having just finished Call of Duty 2 (opens in new tab), arguably the best World War 2 shooter of all, I can’t help but feel it’s about time. In fact, I’ll …

Gordon Freeman has nothing to say. Well, not verbally anyway. As one of gaming’s best-known silent protagonists, he has no syllables to utter and no quips to dispense. Freeman’s lack of chat is a deliberate black hole of meaning. And yet that’s exactly what Valve needed to craft an FPS …