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Yohra good’un | NieR: Automata’s performance on Nintendo Switch exceeded my expectations

Being able to play Square Enix’s cult RPG hit on the go – whether you’re NieR or far – is better than I was expecting.

Sept. 30, 2022 Kelsey Raynor

A corpse on the ghost ship in Man of Medan can be seen with its mouth open.

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Come at me, Shark | Man of Medan and Little Hope get a free update as they arrive on next-gen consoles

Both instalments in The Dark Pictures Anthology are now playable on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Sept. 28, 2022 Kelsey Raynor

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it's not over | Silent Hill: The Short Message has been rated in Korea

My popcorn is ready.

Sept. 26, 2022 Kelsey Raynor

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Tunes for Chooms | Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners shows you how a great anime tie-in should be done

If Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 and Blade Runner: Black Lotus left a bad taste in your mouth, try chewing on Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners for a bit.

Sept. 23, 2022 James Billcliffe

Review

TREASURE TROVE | Return to Monkey Island review: a charming nostalgia-ridden musing on the ravages of time – and a worthy successor

The creator of the Monkey Island series returns to offer his vision of a third game – and it’s got more to say than its nostalgic trappings first suggest.

Sept. 22, 2022 Alex Donaldson

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rockstar-struck | GTA 6 leaks: Forget what you think you know about game development

Take it from someone who knows, you've all got no idea what you're on about when it comes to GTA 6.

Sept. 21, 2022 Steve Burns

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RTXitement | Someone give me about £1500 so I can play Portal with fancy Nvidia RTX 40 Series graphics

Look, I’m a simple creature. I just want games to look spiffing marvelous.

Sept. 20, 2022 Tom Orry

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Colt in our stars | Deathloop is back and better than ever – and it’s the year’s most important addition to Xbox Game Pass

Once a PlayStation 5 exclusive, Arkane’s tightest game yet is now on Xbox – and it’s Day One, too. That’s hugely important for Microsoft.

Sept. 20, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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ZACK ATTACK | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion goes above and beyond as a remaster, but its PSP origins are plain to see

Square Enix’s remaster of the most important Final Fantasy 7 spin-off is one of the most impressive I’ve ever seen, though it’s still a PSP game at heart.

Sept. 16, 2022 Alex Donaldson

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Die, nasty warriors | Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – Xbox Game Pass hit-in-waiting is the best of Nioh, with just a hint of Elden Ring

Move over Nioh, there’s a new upstart coming for the FromSoftware crown, and it’s quicker and more vicious than anything that’s come before.

Sept. 16, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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fine china | Play the Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty time-limited PS5 or Xbox Series X|S demo right now, or suffer immense regret

Surprise! There's a new Team Ninja demo out right now, and anyone that clears it will get bonus items in the final game when it launches in 2023.

Sept. 16, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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Into the Frey | Square Enix knows you’ve got ‘open world fatigue’, reckons Forspoken can be a tonic for your blues

We’ve all had a good laugh at Forspoken, but the game’s co-director Takefumi Terada wants you to know it’s more than a one-note viral joke.

Sept. 14, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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CREED ALL ABOUT IT | Assassin's Creed Mirage proves that less is more

Mirage represents a Unity of past and future.

Sept. 14, 2022 Jim Trinca

Screenshot from God of War Ragnarock trailer from September Sony State of Play

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boy story | New God of War Ragnarok trailer shows off more combat, more story, and more of that gorgeous world

Kratos' story is coming to a close, and it looks like Sony Santa Monica wants to wrap things up in style.

Sept. 13, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

Rise of the Ronin's protagonist looks over the vast open world of the game.

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ronin free | Nioh developer Team Ninja announces new 'sprawling RPG', Rise of the Ronin – a PS5 console exclusive

Team Ninja is developing another game alongside Wo Long – and it looks amazing.

Sept. 13, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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all sorts of stuff | Nintendo Direct: here's what you may have missed

Everything else announced during Nintendo Direct.

Sept. 13, 2022 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

Guide

Mystic Messenger Zen route walkthrough and endings guide- Day 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (Casual mode)

Complete Zen's route in style!

Sept. 13, 2022 Staff

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Mystic Messenger Zen walkthrough - Prologue, Day 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Casual Story)

Start of Zen's Story right!

Sept. 13, 2022 Staff

Anime artwork for Mystic Messenger showing the main characters in the game.

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Mystic Messenger character guides [2022] - Zen, Yoosung, Jaehee, Ray, Jumin, 707 and V

A rundown of every major character in Mystic Messenger

Sept. 13, 2022 James Billcliffe

Link overlooking the world of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

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Link to the Future | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom finally has a name and release date

The Breath of the Wild sequel will arrive on 12 May 2023.

Sept. 13, 2022 Kelsey Raynor

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All Bets Are Off | Ubisoft promises Assassin's Creed Mirage won't have "real gambling" in the game

There won't be any lootboxes either.

Sept. 12, 2022 Oisin Kuhnke

The eyes of Joanna Dark in Perfect Dark.

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ALIEN CONFLICT | Perfect Dark’s reboot needs to remember one key thing – it’s far more than a spy game

People always think of Perfect Dark as a sequel to GoldenEye, a game about a super-spy. But what made it special is far beyond Bond’s imagination.

Sept. 12, 2022 Alex Donaldson

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Luminous Projections | Say what you like about Forspoken, it’s an exceptional advert for the PS5

It might not win any awards or sell 10 million copies, but I’d own Forspoken just to see it running on the PlayStation 5.

Sept. 12, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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Off the cuff | Square Enix says Forspoken dialogue memes have “no context” – but admits some are “really funny”

Forspoken creative producer, Raio Mitsuno, responds to that infamous Forspoken trailer, and tells us what lessons the studio learned from its viral status.

Sept. 12, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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infinite test | Ubisoft is experimenting with “standalone multiplayer experiences” for Assassin’s Creed

The Assassin’s Creed Project Infinity platform may play host to multiplayer experiences for the series.

Sept. 10, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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let's talk about hex | Far Cry 2 and Splinter Cell writer, Clint Hocking, is leading the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Codename Hexe

A game that may as well be called Assassin’s Creed: Blair Witch is in the works, as Ubisoft teases games “on the horizon”.

Sept. 10, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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nippon down | Assassin’s Creed Codename Red will finally take the series to Japan – just don’t expect it soon

It’s been 15 years, but the Assassin’s Creed series is finally setting sail for Japan with Codename Red.

Sept. 10, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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in the baghdad | Assassin’s Creed Mirage arrives 2023, drops RPG elements, wants to go “back to the series’ roots”

The story of Basim Ibn Ishaq will take place 20 years before Valhalla, and offer a more classic Assassin’s Creed experience.

Sept. 10, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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Become Chaos | Stranger of Paradise's Wanderer of the Rift DLC arrives next month

The DLC hosts a new location, job, and more.

Sept. 9, 2022 Kelsey Raynor

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night city limits | With its expansion announcement, Cyberpunk 2077 at last addresses its biggest mistake

Yes, CD Projekt RED is leaving last-gen behind – but it's dead weight that finally needed to be dropped.

Sept. 7, 2022 Alex Donaldson

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one night in paris | Steel Rising review — A ballet of French steampunk and Souls that’s more tedious than tour de force

Souls-like in nature, Spiders has tinkered with the formula to make a machination all of its own – to mixed results.

Sept. 7, 2022 Connor Makar

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respect your elders | Why The Elder Scrolls 6 should look to the past to create a better future for the series

Despite all the modern game design ideas and tech innovations available, the key to making the sixth Elder Scrolls an all-timer lies in its own past.

Sept. 6, 2022 Fran Ruiz

Screenshot from the rick and morty x god of war ragnarock ad

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Pickle Styx | I've got to admit, this Rick and Morty ad for God of War Ragnarok is pretty funny

Nothing good can come from this.

Sept. 6, 2022 Connor Makar

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alien autopsy | If Xbox wants an Xbox Game Pass great, The Initiative's Perfect Dark must avoid the series' past mistakes

If there’s one thing we don’t want from a Perfect Dark reboot, it’s another Perfect Dark Zero.

Sept. 5, 2022 Benjamin Hayhoe

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The Quarry’s studio director says next game is in development, “still very much classic horror”

The next game is said to be releasing in 2025 or 2026.

Sept. 5, 2022 Kelsey Raynor

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the telltale heart | "Telltale will remember that": Why New Tales from the Borderlands dropped the infamous conversation prompt

Gearbox Software takes many cues from Telltale, but there's one key difference in the Tales From the Borderlands follow-up: it won't have that infamous prompt.

Sept. 2, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

Marissa Marcel following the filming of Minsky in Immortality

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The memory remains | Immortality review – A haunting love-letter to the silver screen that will keep you awake at night

Sam Barlow’s latest deftly weaves cinema and interactive fiction together to create something both unsettling and unexpected.

Sept. 2, 2022 Kelsey Raynor

The character of Franny in Immortality's second Marissa Marcel film, Minsky, stands beside a mask at an art exhibition

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Immortality Walkthrough: How to collect every clip and piece of secret footage

Buckle up, the tale of Marissa Marcel is a mind-bending one.

Sept. 1, 2022 Kelsey Raynor

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hugo your own way | A Plague Tale: Requiem will easily take the title of this year's most harrowing Xbox Game Pass game

The story of Hugo and Amicia doesn’t get any easier in A Plague Tale: Requiem – in fact, it’s getting much, much nastier.

Sept. 1, 2022 Dom Peppiatt

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joely good | The Last of Us Part I review – A PS5 remake that shines above most

Perhaps not 100% necessary, but still absolutely brilliant.

Aug. 31, 2022 Tom Orry

Genshin Impact 3.0 Sumeru fishing NPC who sells End of the Line

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Dropping a line | Genshin Impact: End of the Line bow — upgrade materials, ascension materials, and fishing spots

A new fishing weapon has been added to Genshin. Here's how to get it!

Aug. 31, 2022 Connor Makar

Quantic Dreams x Netease Games acquisition art.

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Quantic C.R.E.A.M | Quantic Dream has been acquired by Netease Games — will continue to "operate independently"

The studio will continue creating and publishing titles as they were, albeit with new Netease backing.

Aug. 31, 2022 Connor Makar

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Take-Two in the hand | What if GTA 6 actually lived up to Take-Two's lofty expectations? Because it just might

GTA 6 must check many boxes to meet high fan expectations, but from what we know about Rockstar Games and Take-Two... it has a chance of living up to the hype.

Aug. 30, 2022 Fran Ruiz