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Skull and Bones

Another throwback to an early period in Assassin's Creed's evolution, Skull and Bones has had a much longer and stormier journey than Mirage.

TRYING TO BUILD EVERYTHING IN CITIES: SKYLINES

A foolhardy attempt to construct the Se= ultimate virtual metropolis.

Company of Heroes 3

You've all been waiting very patiently for this grand return - about a decade, at last count. The good news is, it looks like Relic have built a game well worth the wait.

Stormgate

This year already looks like it'll be bringing some heavy-hitting RTS games with it.

The Great War: Western Front

There's no shortage of war games waving their proverbial arms in your face and screaming \"look at me, I'm realistic\".

Starfield

The best bits of Bethesda RPGs don't demo well. At least, that's the self-soothing mantral repeated while watching Starfield's lacklustre summer showcase - 15 minutes of impactless shooting and Todd Howard in a leather jacket. A slight variant on Fallout 3's lockpicking system wasn't enough to shake the sense that it was still 2008.

SOUND GARDEN

The great ghost of LOOKING GLASS hovers over Deus Ex, BioShock and Guitar Hero

Redfall

Arkane enters the fray of cooperative shooters, with a vampiric twist. The genre has become a little more crowded with 2022 having brought us Back 4 Blood and the sublime Warhammer 40,000 Darktide, but Redfall has a few extra tricks up its sleeves to potentially help it sink its fangs into the competition.

EARTH TO EARTH

MAPFRIEND makes a game out of Google Earth

GARBAGE DAY

Bin there, dumped that in SUNSET SHIFT

FACE OFF

Beating a demon at his own game in FACE DOWN

GROUP TEST: AMD VS INTEL

There's only one way to decide between these gaming CPUs: fight!

YOU'VE BEEN FRAMED

GPUs are now 1,000+ investments. How did we get here?

MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDITION

Make your next playthrough the best one ever.

The Invincible

This retro-future science-fiction game, based on a novel of the same name, looks like it could be a serious sleeper hit next year.

Nightingale

Onetime Bioware boss Aaryn Flynn is the persistent force behind Nightingale, a survival and crafting game that goes unusually deep when it comes to worldbuilding.

DEAD ON ARRIVAL

Souls-like Metroidvania meets monotony in GHOST SONG

Hyper Light Breaker

A new game set in the post apocalyptic world of Hyper Light Drifter, taking the series into 3D with a rogue-lite adventure that can be played cooperatively with friends.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

The Final Fantasy VII remake saga continues in Rebirth, following a story that, at this point, has diverged significantly from the path of the original game.

Resident Evil 4

After the Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes, the legendary fourth game is getting the same treatment, reimagining the lauded classic as something shinier and faster paced.

RADIOTHERAPY

SIGNALIS is one of the best psychological sci-fi chillers in years

CYBERPUNK 2077

Cyberpunk was good, but its biggest issues remain.

THE WITCHER

A dodgy RPG propped up by a now popular universe.

BLOWING UP

CALL OF DUTY is still huge - and that could stop Microsoft buying Activision

QA Q&A

SCOTTY LODGE of Hyper Luminal Games shines a light on the QA process

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

The success of Dark Souls and Elden Ring flew in the face of received AAA wisdom - proving that big budget games can be difficult, obtuse, and trusting of their players, yet still find a huge audience.

Assassin's Creed Mirage

MIRAGE IS THE BETTER OPTION: A RETURN TO STEALTH, URBAN PARKOUR. AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Wild Hearts

Lush environments, fantastical creatures that can be harvested for loot, enormous beasts that are best tackled in a small team... it's easy to compare this to Monster Hunter with good reason.

Teslagrad 2

A decade since the first game, this gorgeous looking platformer puts players in the role of Lumina, a young who has been left 'Teslamancer', stranded after her airship crashed.

"I did what any other human would do - I razed the thing to the ground"

Trying my damn best to unwind in DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY