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A raider in Borderlands makes fingerguns towards the camera.

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Crossing the Border | Borderlands 4 is a bold departure for the series, but 2K may have carved off some of its soul in the pursuit of killing cringe - preview

Borderlands 4 is drastically different in a lot of ways, not all of which I'm sold on.

June 18, 2025 Connor Makar

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A Dash Food bag can be seen laid over the top of an image of Rainbow Road in Mario Kart World

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Friendly Fire | The sinister secret that Mario Kart World is hiding: where do those Dash Foods come from?

I’ve crashed into enough Cheep Cheeps and consumed enough sushi in Mario Kart World to know that something fishy is going on here.

June 17, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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PERFORMANCE ART | With technical improvements, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are utterly transformed on Nintendo Switch 2

What a difference a frame rate makes. On more powerful hardware, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are practically different games

June 4, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Some Lightning Grease can be seen on top of a blurred piece of Elden Ring Nightreign key artwork

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Throwing Pot Feast | Want to improve your Elden Ring Nightreign runs? You should really stop sleeping on your consumable items

From leaving Warming Stones and Boiled Prawns to waste away in my inventory to using them at every possible opportunity: consumables in Nightreign are just great, and here’s why.

June 3, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

Ren can be seen in Quantum Witch at night

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BUTTPEACH | Quantum Witch is a story of religious oppression, queer emancipation, and a dancing skeleton that hopes to popularise the ‘plotformer’ genre

We spoke to Quantum Witch’s lone developer – NikkiJay – about how her experiences as part of a religious cult shaped the development of her game, an 80s-style ‘plotformer’ about finding your lost flock of faer.

May 29, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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Dune Awakening Atreides people around desk.

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Oi Lads, rad. | Dune Awakening's creative director speaks on the end game, and how the Landsraad will give key roles to crafter and killer alike

The Landsraad system is more like the Gates of Ahn' Qiraj than standard weekly quests, which should excite you.

May 28, 2025 Connor Makar

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Back At It | "We are aiming to do it all over again!" Warhammer 40K: Boltgun 2 principal designer chats what's new with the sequel, and the team's love of Malum Caedo kitbashes

Boltgun 2 brings us back into the fray, with more dangers in store for Malum Caedo.

May 27, 2025 Connor Makar

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Davidoff The Track | F1 25's Braking Point 3 delivers more Butler drama than a Downton Abbey battle royale, but I wish it had pumped the brakes a bit more often

It’s very Tory racing family Jeremy Kyle, and there’s also some actual driving going on sometimes.

May 27, 2025 Mark Warren

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Lucien Lachance in Oblivion Remastered alongside a Mythic Dawn cultist in Mankar Camoran's Paradise.

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Bad To The Bravil | “What if I was the bad guy?” Oblivion Remastered’s best new faction quests so far exist because a modder was doing evil stuff, and they’re now teasing “a secret project”

Also, it’ll take some work for the remaster’s modding scene to get to the next level without Bethesda helping "grease the wheels".

May 23, 2025 Mark Warren

Majima and Kiryu from Yakuza 0 stand in front of a blurred pair of Switch 2 controllers.

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Legend of Goro | Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut Red Light Raid Mode is baffling, totally on-brand, and a weirdly good fit as part of a Nintendo Switch 2 launch game

Here me out, this tacked-on multiplayer mode might actually justify some of the Switch 2’s more controversial features.

May 21, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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Raidou Kuzunoha - dressed in 1920s Japanese detecitve style - pops a green test-tube looking thing into the camera, agaisnt a background of blue tinted demons

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Soul Trader | Following the breakout success of Metaphor Refantazio, Atlus’ only action-RPG gets a second lease of life on Switch 2 (and it’s pretty good, too)

Nearly 20 years later, Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army proves that there’s a bit of life left in the peculiar spin-off series yet.

May 21, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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BUDGET BALANCED | Nvidia wants the RTX 5060 to be your new 1080p daily driver GPU thanks to big frame-generation boosts

Nvidia’s newest entry-level card promises high frame rates and great performance on new games for $300 - but only if you turn on all of the performance-enhancing extras.

May 18, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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A Magic the Gathering Commander box set over the top of a slightly blurred, greyed out image of Cloud and Sephiroth fighting.

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Isn't It Wonderful? | However many Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering cards they release, it’ll never be enough

I wonder how the people behind the aggressively-mid FF Trading Card Game from Square Enix must be feeling.

May 14, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Duvaling Deeper | GTA 6 trailer 2 is here, so when‘s GTA 6 trailer 3 gonna drop? Don't worry, we've been rubbing our hot braincells together

Forget all that new info, I’ll never put away my diagram of lunar phases.

May 10, 2025 Mark Warren

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Master Chief from Halo and the Quake symbol behind a character from Eve Vanguard

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Unreal Cool | The 00s is back, baby: EVE Vanguard, CCP Games' ambitious MMOFPS, channels some of the best bits of Quake, Unreal Tournament and classic Halo

A Flak Cannon, a Beam Rifle, and a charge pistol… why players of a certain age are going to lose their minds over Vanguard’s throwback weaponry.

May 7, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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Mass Marketing | Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti finally brings a desirable new-generation GPU to the masses, but price remains a sticking point

Nvidia’s 5060 Ti is probably the best graphics card for those feeling an upgrade itch on a tighter budget - but only if you go for the 16 GB model.

May 7, 2025 Alex Donaldson

The Adoring Fan and the Imperial City in Oblivion Remastered.

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Good Stuff Bruma-ing | Oblivion Remastered has the potential to show us “the pinnacle of Elder Scrolls modding”, reckons the pioneer behind the first mod to edit its worldspace

“The bed showed up, floating, but the docks were nowhere to be found, and I realised the game was afoot.”

May 5, 2025 Mark Warren

Key art for Eve Online Legion expansion, with a black and gold aesthetic, two ships in the middle, and what looks like a burning sun in the background.

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Hot Ship | “Staying beautiful isn’t about chasing trends” Eve Online developer CCP explains why looking good is more than just skin deep for a ‘forever game’ in 2025

It’s all change in the world of GPU and graphics, these days. That’s why CCP Games is preparing “the foundations of Eve for the next decade of graphical tech”

May 2, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

A clone stands and looks at a shelf full of weapons on a war barge (all pale light and yellow highlights) in Eve Vanguard.

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Also Van | EVE Vanguard, the MMOFPS that promises to “truly respect your time”, finally has a release date (of sorts): it’s coming to Steam Early Access next summer

Taking cues from Helldivers 2 and other persistent-world shooters, EVE Vanguard will finally show you its chops in 2026.

May 2, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

A pizza delivery person ominously smiling is shown beside a knife being held up to an eyeball in key artwork from BrokenLore: Don't Watch

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DON’T WATCH | BrokenLore: Don’t Watch is a surreal indie horror that offers an intriguing and visceral tale about the effects of social withdrawal

Don’t Watch is the latest for indie horror anthology, BrokenLore, which deals with very real, grounded topics in a terrifying manner.

May 2, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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New Lands | Borderlands 4 looks like the Destiny 3 we'll probably never get, and that shift is the best move Gearbox could have possibly made

It's a bold shift in a new direction, done at the perfect time.

May 1, 2025 Connor Makar

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A segmented image featuring mobile games available on Netflix, including Dead Cells, Immortality, Kentucky Route Zero, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Into the Breach

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Net A Good One | The best Netflix games to play in 2025

All of these essential games are included as part of your Netflix subscription, and they're all great.

May 1, 2025 James Billcliffe

Split image featuring a helmeted soldier in Arc Raiders, and a helmeted soldier in PUBG.

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Arc Battlegrounds | Arc Raiders does so much to remind me of classic PUBG, and I can’t possibly think of a more flattering compliment

I’ve played around 10 hours of Arc Raiders, and the only thing I kept thinking of is how much classic PUBG-coded its best moments are.

April 30, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Ayrton Simcade-a | Formula Legends is simcade racer aiming to outpace its competitors in a tough field with its unique take on classic F1 - preview

3DClouds’s next game is bringing back those V10s - and all the other engine sizes we love.

April 30, 2025 Mark Warren

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Between the Lines | Do Borderlands 4 and Ghost of Yotei’s launch dates actually tell us anything about the GTA 6 release date? Here’s what we think

It's no secret the gaming world is trying to navigate around GTA 6, but recent news could help us narrow down that release window.

April 29, 2025 Connor Makar

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Iron Sights | Arc Raiders is already one of the most polished and immediately satisfying extraction shooters, and it’s not even out yet

There’s a lot to love about Arc Raiders, but more than anything, I admire how well thought-out many of its mechanics are.

April 29, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Elephant in the Room | In preparation for Borderlands 4 I played through Borderlands 3, and I'm torn on how to deal with the Ava problem

Years late to the party? Absolutely. But wow, what on Earth do you do about Ava?

April 28, 2025 Connor Makar

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Play in the Sandbox | Dune Awakening preview: a loving recreation of a beloved sci-fi property that offers more questions than answers, but it's a good start

Dune Awakening is about as loving an adaptation of the Herbert's universe as you could get, to a fault.

April 25, 2025 Connor Makar

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The best co-op games to play in 2025

Whether you simply want some quick co-op fun or a lengthy campaign to embark on, we've got you and your friends covered with these co-op games.

April 25, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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A Konnersport car during a pit stop in F1 25.

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Racinema | F1 25 hands-on preview, part three: Braking Point 3 brings more Drive To Survive-ish drama, this time out front

Dom Toretto might not be an F1 driver, but this time it’s all about family.

April 24, 2025 Mark Warren

The Nintendo Switch 2, its Joy-Cons separated from it about to attach themselves.

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Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are actually going live in the US today

Not even tariffs can stop gamers now.

April 24, 2025 Robert Anderson

Bloober Team's red capital-B shaped icon, in a split image with a helmeted figrue that looks suspiciously phallic.

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Bring Them Back | An innovative 'merge' system, decisions galore, and the branch into survival horror: Bloober Team on breaking new ground in Cronos The New Dawn

We sat down with Bloober Team to talk about what to expect from the upcoming sci-fi survival horror, Cronos: The New Dawn.

April 23, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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One Last Run | Baldur’s Gate 3 gets a glorious send-off following its final update on PC, as players wonder “what’s next for Larian?”

One last hurrah for Baldur's Gate 3, as Larian moves onto to new ventures.

April 22, 2025 Connor Makar

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Lilith Fans Assembly | Diablo 4 will help you pretend you have way more friends than you actually do with its bold, new... WhatsApp group?

Am I imagining things, or have we all just woken up to this bizarre trend of major brands now having their own WhatsApp groups?

April 19, 2025 Sherif Saed

Marathon extraction shooter custom header

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Shot in the Dark | As someone who hates extraction shooters, there's actually a very good reason I'm willing to give Marathon a shot

Bungie has been through a lot, but I still trust that those developers still working at the studio can make a killer new game, extraction shooter or no.

April 18, 2025 Connor Makar

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An F1 car with a custom livery in F1 25.

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Sim-ply Lovleh | F1 25 hands-on preview, part two: Drifting when you give it a bootful, but not spinning out as much

No more being dredged from the harbour: I can finally manage a lap of Monaco without full traction control on.

April 17, 2025 Mark Warren

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An armour fella grins into the camera as two images of the Meat Harbor - all red, rusty and ruined - sit blurred behind him.

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Sweet Oblivion | Quick, come to the Meat Harbor: The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion Remastered is real, and it better have brought back the original’s best feature

Forget everything else, we need Mehrunes Dagon’s ludicrously-named corridors.

April 16, 2025 Mark Warren

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Bloody Action | Hands-on: Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is NES-inspired, retro ninja action done right, and the perfect entrée to whet your appetite for Ninja Gaiden 4

In a preview of The Game Kitchen's next title, Ninja Gaiden loses a dimension, but keeps the quality.

April 16, 2025 Connor Makar

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As Long As It Takes | Dune Awakening's delay sucks, but if the past few years of live service launches have taught me anything, it's that it's probably a good call

There's nothing that cripples the launch of an MMO than a bad first impression.

April 16, 2025 Connor Makar

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A JoyCon from the Switch 2 over the top of two slightly blurred, desaturated images from Bravely Default HD Remaster.

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Mouse Rules | I just gave the Nintendo Switch 2 a go, and found the best demo of the new hardware in the most unexpected place

You could argue it’s a brave decision to hide away some of the best tech work in the remaster of a 3DS game, with very little fanfare.

April 11, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

An F1 facility with a hanging F1 display car in F1 25's MyTeam 2.0 mode.

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Total Wolff | F1 25 hands-on preview, part one: MyTeam 2.0 goes full team boss by “retiring” the owner driver

The days of “Fine, I’ll drag this shed with wheels I’ve built onto the podium” aren’t over, but you'll need to possess one of your drivers to do it.

April 10, 2025 Mark Warren

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A cutout of Donkey Kong wielding a boulder in front of a stacked series of Rare logos in gold and blue.

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Rare Candy | Hands-on: Donkey Kong Bananza is extremely Super Mario Odyssey-coded, but also nails that delicious, specific Rare flair

This is almost certainly a DK title made in Japan, but whoever is behind this has stepped back and looked holistically at what Rare built in the 90s.

April 8, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Pack Mentality | Part-Payday, part-Cyberpunk, part-Heat, but never derivative: Den of Wolves reminds me why co-op heist games have always been cool

As Payday 3 fails to impress, 10 Chambers is readying a true successor to Payday 2 that's got all the ingredients to be your next favourite co-op romp.

April 7, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

Jack Black as Steve in A Minecraft Movie alongside some Llamas.

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Tenacious Diamonds | This isn't A Minecraft Movie, this is just a tribute

Haven’t seen the actual Minecraft movie in the world, no. This is just a tribute.

April 5, 2025 Mark Warren

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SPACE PIRATES | Playing Metroid Prime 4 with mouselook and at 120fps feels incredible - and like it should be illegal

On Switch 2, Metroid Prime 4 has modes so silky and control options so alien that playing it feels like you're being very naughty indeed.

April 5, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Pay to Playroom | It should be free, but Switch 2’s genius Welcome Tour is nevertheless going to be a must-have game

Complain as I might… I know I’m probably going to buy this. D'oh. And you probably should too. That’s capitalism, baby!

April 4, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Sadness Remastered | The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC is not only a great port, but the perfect treat for TV series lovers hankering for Season 2

An upgraded version of a cinematic classic hampered by a few technical faults, this is the perfect appetiser for anyone salivating over HBO's next TV hit.

April 3, 2025 Connor Makar

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