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You’d be forgiven for thinking REPO is a lot like Lethal Company. Both games involve fetching precious objects, hiding from things that go bump in the night, working cooperatively as nigh-identical, disposable grunts, and hollering over voice chat when things inevitably go wrong. Both games are also overnight phenomena, with REPO scrambling to adjust to…

Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: Reviewing Borderlands 4, a game I like very much despite its many warts. There’s been a healthy heaping of difficulty discourse surrounding Silksong, and with good reason. This game’s tough as nails. I just wrapped up my 60-hour playthrough of all three acts, and…

You’ve been playing 1000xResist for half a dozen chapters, enjoying changes in perspective and mechanics with each chapter shift. Yet the sudden jump to video still feels unusual when it happens—recorded footage of Hong Kong suddenly taking the place of a cutscene in the middle of the game. As creative director Remy Siu says, that…

The new Brushes with Death DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is pretty straightforward, but there’s a point that might trip you up if you haven’t been making potions or using herbs. Finding some Valerian for Kvyetoslava is a step in the Source of Inspiration quest, as you help the grandma recall the location of…

The Subway Slammer is the first baddie in gacha spinoff Persona 5: The Phantom X. He is also a total clown show—at least in the Western world, anyway. Despite representing Japan’s very serious butsukari otoko problem—an ongoing violence against women that usually involves men intentionally bodychecking women in crowded spaces like train stations—his English localised…