Category: Reviews & Previews
Unicorn Overlord Review
Unicorn Overlord stands out as one of the best tactical RPGs in recent memory, with only a few setbacks on its march to victory.
The Thaumaturge Review
Despite a repetitive gameplay loop, The Thaumaturge's mix of demons and magic has created a detective-focused adventure worth visi...
The Outlast Trials Review
The Outlast Trials 1.0 is a delightfully disturbing multiplayer experience, but a lack of polish and scares may leave some disappo...
WWE 2K24 Review
WWE 2K24 features incredibly fun in-ring action and a ton of quality content, even if some of the game modes lack significant impr...
Inkulinati Review
Inkulinati is an extremely charming turn-based strategy game, but players looking for something to sink hours into may not find it...
Skull and Bones Review
Skull and Bones tries to be a new kind of pirate adventure, but its redundant gameplay and forgettable story leave it in murky wat...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Review
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is an epic-scale adventure with an unforgettable cast of characters that will keep players busy for dozens...
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Starring Lara Croft Review
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered offers a delightful trip down memory lane for fans of the original games but may still be a bit too jan...
Helldivers 2 Review
Helldivers 2 is an excellent sci-fi shooter that delivers one of the most unforgiving, and downright hilarious, coop experiences g...
Review: GameSir X2s Mobile Controller – My Gateway To M...
Finally, I can play mobile games.
Lightyear Frontier Review
If this is the final frontier, I'm all for it.
Highwater Review - Wading Through The Flood
This game has lots of style, but not much substance
The Finals' Season 2 Gadgets And Specialisations Are It...
The new toys you'll be able to play with in The Finals' second season are simply fantastic.
The Finals' New Power Shift Game Mode Is Style Over Sub...
The Finals' new Power Shift game mode isn't the best way to play.
The Elder Scrolls Online Bedlam Veil Preview - Celebrat...
We delve into one of ESO's most ambitious dungeons yet ahead of its 10th anniversary.
Rise Of The Ronin's First Hours Are Unsteady, But With ...
Koei Tecmo's open-world Souls-like Rise of the Ronin has a glimmer of something special under its rough exterior.
3 Body Problem Review
Netflix's new sci-fi series from the creators of Game of Thrones, 3 Body Problem, is fascinating and messy.
SWISSGEAR 8120 USB Gaming Laptop Backpack Review
You can literally fit everything you need in this bag. Here's our review of the Swissgear Gaming Laptop Backpack.
Monster Hunter Now Season 1 Brings The Mobile Game Even...
Monster Hunter Now celebrates six months with a massive start to Season One.
The Thaumaturge review - a refreshingly different Polis...
Lurking behind a dated exterior is a limited but sophisticated RPG with a unique setting and some memorable new ideas.I think it ...
Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM review: the best gaming mo...
Wake up, nerds - new gaming monitors are here. Five years after the advent of 27-inch Fast IPS 1440p 144Hz monitors, which earned...
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story review - classic games...
The black screen has a single white dot at its centre. The expectation is that we're in for something like Pong: something simple...
Penny's Big Breakaway review - a bright platformer with...
Whenever I first get to play a new Mario Kart game there's always a moment - often when I reach a Bowser stage - where I look at ...
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster review - a meticulous o...
Dark Forces emerges from Nightdive's bacta tank refreshed and ready for action, combining classic FPS mayhem with thrilling espio...
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Unicorn Overlord review - endless options propel this s...
Building an ideal party is one of my favourite things to do in any roleplaying game where the cast size matches a Wes Anderson fl...
Last Epoch review - paradise for ARPG build-tinkerers t...
I'm never quite sure whether I'm doing the right thing in Last Epoch, yet as I float around as an undead vacuum cleaner - hooveri...
OnePlus 12R Genshin Impact Edition review: flagship-gra...
Genshin Impact is one of the most popular games in the world and perhaps China's chief video game export, but even knowing that I...
Pacific Drive review - an exhausting, oddly lovable nig...
The other day I read an old interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki, the FromSoftware director behind Dark Souls and Elden Ring, and it ...
Summerhouse review - a house-building toy that contains...
There is an island in the Aegean, an island of stray cats and tumbling bougainvilleas, that has an instagram account devoted excl...
Helldivers 2 review - team kills and bug-stomping thril...
Ten minutes into a mission on the planet of Malevelon Creek, my squad and I emerge from a swampy treeline to finally catch sight ...
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley review - it's just love...
You can't throw a rock in Brighton without hitting a moomin. There are boutiques and galleries devoted to them. They're on our te...
Ultros review - a blossoming prog Metroidvania for the ...
Sorry to get all TikTok MBA on you, but if you're employing the rule of three in your marketing, you really want to make that thi...
Sony Xperia 5 V review: Compact and powerful with a gre...
Sony's Xperia 5 V was described to me by a representative as their more trendy flagship, designed for younger people and influenc...
Foamstars review - fun-ish bathtime Splatoon lacking co...
When Square Enix announced its all-new multiplayer shooter Foamstars, the internet expectedly reacted with Splatoon comparisons a...
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Balatro review - near-infinite poker possibilities
A week into Balatro - Balatro were jesters and fools in ancient Rome; I googled it - I'd say that this is the Goldberg Variations...
Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash Review - a product disguis...
Ah, the video game tie-in. A handful of brilliant games came about as a result of the late 90s-to-early-00s' somewhat ghoulish ob...
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin review - a retro shooter of unprece...
Like a demon summoned by fresh blood on its altar, Wrath: Aeon of Ruin first arose at the height of the retro-shooter revival. De...
Silent Hill: The Short Message review - a potent but ha...
Content Warning: Silent Hill: The Short Message contains explicit and continual themes and references to self-harm, suicide ideat...
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE review: the most compelling RDNA...
In something of a surprise launch, AMD has made its RX 7900 GRE available as a full retail product in order to tackle the challen...
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth review - Yakuza's excess...
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth in name alone implies certain themes. Greed. Exploitation. Instability. Appropriate topics for a s...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth review - an overstuffed but lov...
Remakes are a precarious proposition. Do too much and you risk losing a fanbase. Do too little and fans question if it was ev...
DoDonPachi Blissful Death Re:Incarnation review - the u...
It absolutely feels that M2's ShotTriggers series has been building up to this moment. The Japanese developer and publishing...
Skull and Bones review - entertaining combat can't save...
Pirates! Such an evocative word! But if it's swashbuckling tales of derring-do you're after, of sea monsters and high seas advent...
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review - fabulous expl...
There's something about a magic door. Who could resist them? I can't. I don't know anyone who can.Prince of Persia: The Lost Crow...
Counter-Strike 2 review - despite everything, it's stil...
Counter-Strike 2 is Counter-Strike. The formula hasn't really changed since the 1999 original - terrorists and counter-terrorists...
American Arcadia review - a charming but simplistic spi...
I worried a bit about American Arcadia because of how much of a departure it seemed to be from Call of the Sea, Out of the Blue's...
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden review - a haunting story...
Commitment can be scarier than any ghost story. When I got married, I spent a lot of time leading up to the wedding borrowing gri...
Super Mario RPG review - soothing role-playing goodness
Mario is asleep in bed. It's a lovely wooden bed with a warm blanket and fat pillows. The bedroom's a bit odd, though. The ro...
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Mario vs. Donkey Kong review - the Switch's protracted ...
The Switch is safely into its Vegas residency era now. So safely, in fact, that with the greatest hits out of the way it's offeri...
WarioWare: Move It! review - motion controls make for m...
I have three seconds to open these cupboard drawers, but as soon as they appear I know I'm toast. I stand (and with WarioWare: Mo...
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered review - you were never goin...
Games can be beautiful because they are timeless, but they can also be beautiful because they are timely. When it comes to timele...
Jusant review - soaring design and skyscraping climbs
Oh yes. It was the bit in the movie where you leap from one spar of a broken bridge to another, and try to avoid thinking of th...
Honor Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design review: a thin foldab...
The Honor Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design is perhaps the most sublimely designed foldable to date. With a bigger battery than competi...
Sonic Superstars review - a throwback lacking in flow
Respectable platforming and classic Sonic elements are undermined by inconsistent new ideas. Collecting Chaos Emeralds in Soni...
Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader review - gloriously faithfu...
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a game that I have been waiting a long time for. It's not quite the first 40k video game that...
Subpar Pool review - golf meets pool and it all clicks ...
One of my favourite studio names of the last few years comes from the team that made PinOut. PinOut was basically Tron: The Pin...
Meze 99 Neo review: stylish headphones with a warm, det...
I've always been a fan of underdog brands, and Romanian headphone maker Meze definitely counts as one. The company has been makin...
Lords of the Fallen (2023) review - a Dark Souls tribut...
She's a fierce warrior, but she's crying tears of blood. After a tense battle of graceful sweeping sword arcs - and me frantica...
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review - an idea...
If there's a sense of burning injustice at Rocksteady Studios, it's probably understandable. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leag...
Mortal Kombat 1 review - a false start in the race for ...
It Has Begun... Again. 30 years on from furrowing the brows of parents and bothering the halls of the Senate, NetherRealm Studi...
Moza R5 Bundle + PlaySeat Challenge X review: two great...
After reviewing direct drive wheels and pedals from some of the biggest established players in sim racing - Fanatec, Thrustmaster...
Granblue Fantasy: Relink review - great real-time comba...
At a glance, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Cygames' action-RPG follow-up to the 2014 original, has all the key ingredients of somethi...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super review: the 4K GPU shoot-...
We have reached the end of Nvidia's phased roll-out of new RTX 40-series cards, released under the 'Super' moniker - and what hav...
Persona 3 Reload review - a classic 2006 RPG updated in...
Persona 3 has always been somewhat of an outlier in the high-schooling, monster-bashing series. Going back to 2006, Persona 3 was...
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review - a surprisingly ha...
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora first clicked for me when things got grim. Away from the cascading ferns and artfully twisted tree t...
AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G review: integrated ...
AMD's first Ryzen 8000 desktop processors are here: the $329/£309 8700G, $229/£219 8600G, $176/£169 8500G and OEM-only 8300G. The...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review: a new 4K/1440p...
Nvidia's Super refresh line of updated RTX 40-series graphics cards continues with the launch of the RTX 4070 Ti Super - an ungai...
Tekken 8 review - a complex series transformed into a w...
I suck at Tekken. Even as someone who considers themselves to be well versed in the fighting game community's language and termin...
Elegoo Neptune 4 Plus review: 3D printing for fun and r...
I've always been fascinated by 3D printers but I've never known what I would do with one. When Shenzhen-based firm Elegoo offered...
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super review: more frames for l...
History has a way of repeating itself. Back in 2018, Nvidia released its first wave of RTX graphics cards, boasting RT and machin...
Dough's excellent Spectrum 4K 144Hz monitor gets a Gori...
Dough's excellent yet controversial* Spectrum 4K 144Hz monitor is now available with a glossy Gorilla Glass coating, making for a...
World of Horror review - atmospheric retro dread as fle...
Come, take a flick through World of Horror's rolodex of nightmares; see faces flayed by vengeful wives, wild-eyed teachers with...
The Finals review - mechanically thrilling, thematicall...
When you kill someone in The Finals, they explode in a shower of coins, their body scattering across the ground like a tub of p...
Against the Storm review - a perfectly chaotic city bui...
This isn't a Game of the Year article, but it could be: from its earliest iteration in Early Access, to its full release now, A...
Bahnsen Knights review - bringing the Pixel Pulps home ...
One of the special things about games, and a thing that I have always struggled to articulate, is that the good ones, the reall...
Cobalt Core review - ingenious little deck-builder that...
Earth has a space junk problem. With each new rocket launch, or decommissioned satellite, we add more detritus to high orbit. A...
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review in progress - gorge...
You know that bit at the beginning of The Wizard of Oz? When the twister stops twisting, the farmhouse plummets, and Dorothy pu...
A Highland Song review - a magical sonnet hidden beneat...
A surprise discovery I made a little way into A Highland Song, the latest from Overboard and Heaven's Vault developer Inkle: it...
Wombat Pine Professional review: an excellent keyboard ...
Last year, I bemoaned the lack of Mac-friendly mechanical keyboards in my review of the Das Keyboard MacTigr. It seems that someo...
SteelSeries Alias/Alias Pro microphone review: a new le...
SteelSeries has been on something of a roll recently, with their redesigned Arctis Nova Pro headsets and new Arena speakers bot...
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS review: does AI hardware make a diff...
It's a pretty good time to be an AMD fan. The Red Team's desktop processors include the fastest gaming CPU we've ever tested, whi...
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F review: a great value gaming CPU if y...
AMD's current-generation Ryzen 7000 processors have proven to be some of the fastest gaming CPUs on the planet, but even the entr...
PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is R...
PlayStation Portal is an interesting gadget, an official, Sony-designed streaming device designed for Remote Play with PS5. It'...
Pimax Crystal review: the ultimate VR headset for fligh...
Virtual reality has come a long way since its resurgence in the last decade but two problems remain: image clarity and field of v...
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin review - decent...
In the fabled beforetimes of the early 2010s, Games Workshop made the decision to end the world. Not our world, though it may fee...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023) review - video ga...
I should start with some sympathy. As you might've already read in our Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign review, this 202...
Persona 5 Tactica review - a welcoming spin-off aimed a...
Predicting the next Persona spin-off feels like a fool's game when Atlus goes from fighters to rhythm games, so I'm surprised Per...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023) campaign review -...
One scene near the end of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's story - no spoilers here, not that there's anything to spoil - featu...
Steam Deck OLED review: a beautiful display upgrade - a...
Let's be clear, the brand new Steam Deck OLED isn't just the original machine with a brand new display. Excluding the outer she...
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name revie...
There's a joke among Yakuza fans that Kazuma Kiryu will never truly be gone. At 90 years old he'll be hauling himself out of th...
EA Sports WRC review - a bracing and richly textured ce...
What makes a rally game? Speed helps, as do puddles, and patches of muddy track. Long drifts are essential, and the thing has t...
The Invincible review - gorgeous sci-fi that doesn't qu...
The Invincible is my kind of science fiction. When I look up at the stars, I feel wonder and mystery, and romance, even. I believ...
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria review - diamond...
I, for one, am thrilled that we are currently seeing a spate of weird and wonderful games set in Middle-earth. Although these...
The Talos Principle 2 review - a thought experiment to ...
The premise of The Talos Principle 2 is a springboard for a number of thought experiments. In a post-human Earth, you have a th...
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Football Manager 2024 review - technical tweaks make fo...
It's rare to notice a new Football Manager's tweaks as quickly as I did with FM24. It's March 2025, two-and-a-half seasons into...
Thirsty Suitors review - skating and relationships get ...
Dating can be weird and fun and messy and really, really boring, and sometimes, if you want to look at things selfishly, it can...
RoboCop: Rogue City review - double-A throwback too fai...
RoboCop: Rogue City would have been the absolute biz back in 2005. This might sound like a criticism, and to a certain extent i...
Alan Wake 2 review - incredible style, overbearing writ...
I saw a stray tweet floating around last week - someone complaining that we've entered an era where most modern entertainment i...
Focal Bathys review: sublime audio and a whole lot of s...
For the last few months, I've had my eye on this gorgeous set of cans from Focal, whose wired headphones are lauded by audiophile...
Model F Labs F77 Ultra Compact review: keyboard from a ...
As much as keyboard tech has moved on a lot in the last few years, there's still been a quiet corner of the industry dedicated to...
