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With the demon-rousing riffs of Eddie Munson’s Master of Puppets performance in Stranger Things still fresh in our social feeds, the timing could not be more ideal for Metal: Hellsinger to strut out onto the main stage and adopt an imposing power stance. Taking the love affair between Doom and heavy metal music and melding
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There are games which will deliver a whole range of emotions. Sometimes that will be on the negative side, with frustration or disappointment that the game wasn’t what you wanted it to be. Other times are feelings of nostalgia, whipped up by playing a remaster or something which a familiar format. More still will deliver
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Game-changing decisions always make me come out in a cold sweat. If I choose one path instead of another, will it give me the best possible route? What happens if I switch my thoughts and my favourite character dies? How do I get to the preferred ending? From Telltale games all the way through to
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Where other life sims can sometimes struggle to make interesting use of the characters that occupy their towns, developer Gameloft bursts onto the scene shirtless and flexing its muscles like Maui with Disney Dreamlight Valley. Even in its unfinished early access state, this is an irresistible blend of city planning from the likes of Animal
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If it’s old-school pixelated platforming you are after, look no further than Castle Walker. Releasing today on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, Desert Water Games’ Castle Walker pits you, in the shoes of a young up and coming mage, against the hordes of terrifying monsters that (of course) are bound to be haunting the
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Since its re-emergence in the anime scene in 2012, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has had an upsurge in popularity thanks to its exuberant characters, vibrant worldbuilding, and infinitely memeable moments. In 2013, developer CyberConnect 2 and Bandai Namco released a fighting game based on the long-running manga series to little fanfare. Almost a decade later, a
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When you review a free-to-play game, you can often spend more time on the monetisation model than the game itself. Nothing comes completely free, after all: we need to know what has been compromised in the transition to free-to-play. Is there enough within the free stuff to make it worth playing? And should the paid
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Despite what some may have you believe, there is some serious enjoyment to be found in Aliens: Fireteam Elite; I have and still continue to enjoy my time with the base game, some months from first launch. The mix of classic Aliens sounds and the chance to fire the weapons from the second film in
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I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to the dating game. Whether it’s between humans and robots, vampires and werewolves, or even a person and a jar of mayonnaise – I’m looking at you Mr. Massagy with your Mayo Edition – there appears to be something for everyone. Not kaiju folk though, who
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A good sports management game shouldn’t just accurately represent the sport on the cover; it also needs to show some personality. It needs to be a storyteller. In any sports organisation – as time, championships, seasons, and people come and go – their story grows and changes, building a folklore and a history that makes
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