And just like that, this fungal 'friend group' FPS channeling Deep Rock and Helldivers is at the top of my 2025 wishlist

Resident Evil 9 may have been teased in a new RE4 video, and players are having totally normal reactions to it: ‘Together at last, like ice cream and pizza’

Camera pans down to capture the back of Chris Redfield as he’s addressing his Hound Wolf Squad; there’s a new threat on the horizon, an evil threat that’s emerged from the BSAA using cloned humanoid bioweapons and exacerbated by some unpaid intern accidentally leaving its cage open. But Chris’ elite task force won’t be enough…

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Skin Deep review

Skin Deep lays bare a truth about the immersive sims we anoint to holiness: Beneath a veneer of grizzled assassins and sunglassed corpo agents, beyond the virtues of player choice and non-linear level design, is a genre by and for goofballs. The allure of a hackable computer or pickable pockets is catnip for troublemakers—a license…

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It’s official, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a hit—selling over 1 million copies in 3 days and beating Metaphor: ReFantazio’s Steam peak despite being on Game Pass

Dear reader, I’m fresh off a week’s holiday—and while I wish I could tell you that I spent it tidying my apartment, getting back into drawing, or socialising with my friends, I instead spent around 50-odd hours glued to my screen playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a game I had no idea was going to…

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