Xbox One

Back in the 1990s, video games could be simple affairs. Disc space was limited, hard drive capacities even worse; so much so that if you wanted a long cutscene or story arc then you’d find your games taking place over various discs. Because of that, many games would just throw you into the action without
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I find myself getting over-excited about triple-A games, much like a giddy school boy. And I do that even though I am now in my fifties. I can’t wait for the Starfields, the Spidermans or the Hogwarts. But no matter how good, I always seem to leave disappointed. Maybe it’s the anticipation that kills? Can
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Is there such a thing as good déjà vu? We felt like we had played Mystic Gate dozens of times before. It’s a twin-stick roguelike, which is a double-hander that isn’t exactly new, and it offers no real spin on the formula. But if you’re not going to do something new, then do the old
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Of all the indie franchises that repeatedly release on the Xbox Store, the ‘Gnomes Garden’ franchise – including all of its spin-offs, Royal Roads 2 being the latest – is the one that we find the most inexplicable. We’ve played more of these games than we care to count, yet we can’t pinpoint what people
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Which new Game Pass game will you be playing? If you’re a Game Pass subscriber then today sees the addition of a couple of new games – the question is, which league will you be joining? Game Pass subscribers are fully aware that the service they subscribe to will change on a regular basis. That’s
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I had a dream recently in which I had a robot arm that wasn’t working properly.  You may think that sounds like an exciting sci-fi dream, but all it meant is that I was on the phone trying to arrange an appointment with the NHS to fix the thing. And believe me, here were a
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The 1930s comes with two different realities.  First, there is the truth that the world was in turmoil. A great depression swept America, affecting the world financially, following the boom of the 1920s. And fascism was on the rise, Nazi Germany trying to take over countries one by one.  But in the fantasy world, there
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