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STALKER 2

STALKER was the original open world FPS and once wowed us with its unscripted skirmishes and distinctly Ukrainian brand of horror.

PANDORA'S GLOCKS

Grabbing more loot than I'll use in a lifetime in BORDERLANDS

DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES

EVIL WEST pits cowboys against vampires in a beefy brawler

SINK OR SWIM

Beginning at the end in soggy citybuilder FLOODLAND

AULD LAN SYNE

New year's resolutions for the hardware-obsessed

Final Fantasy XVI

The latest entry in the never-ending series takes players to a medieval fantasy world where kingdoms use big crystals and the summoning of weird monsters to maintain their power.

Street Fighter 6

Street Fighter is back in its best shape in some time, sporting a big roster and tight yet accessible mechanics that should land with series stalwarts and new fans alike.

IRON MAN MODE

MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS successfully morphs XCOM into social simulation, somehow

ALL GORE

Walk down gaming’s moodiest corridors in THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL

Terra Nil

The citybuilder, as first established by Will Wright, was about taking a green Californian field and turning it into a fume-belching industrial hellscape.

HORDE MODE

Fight hundreds of alien monsters at once in the bigger, meaner SPACE MARINE 2

GLITCHY TASTY

Brilliant backtracking in the depths of AXIOM VERGE

GLASS CEILING

Relearning to run in MIRROR’S EDGE

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

As the Gotham Knights fumbled their catch of the DC team-up ball, it's up to the Suicide Squad to pick up and run with this metaphor that should have ended several words ago. Interestingly, this game follows neither the movies (not the well-received James Gunn one, or the one with Jared Leto's 'Ooh, I'm mad, me' Joker), nor the comics. It's going to tell its own story, with its own version of the Squad.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

This sequel to the beloved, hand drawn hack and slash platformer is as highly anticipated as it gets.

Atlas Fallen

The world of Atlas Fallen is ruled over by a cruel god, who demands that its people harvest and offer up 'essence' to it.

Diablo 4

Regardless of whether you've been looking forward to this for the last three years or not, we can surely all agree that a game where one of the characters can turn into a bear is worth a second look.

OVERWATCH'S ZARYA

Putting the hero in hero shooter.

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!