Need to know What is it? Left 4 Dead meets Minecraft in deep spaceExpect to pay £25Developer Ghost Ship GamesPublisher Coffee Stain PublishingReviewed on i7 9700K, 16GB RAM, RTX 2080 TIMultiplayer? 4-player co-opLink Official site You’ve no doubt heard that Deep Rock Galactic is like Left 4 Dead, if Valve’s co-op classic swapped zombies for […]
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Need to know What is it? A third-person competitive hero shooterReviewed on RTX 2060, Ryzen 5 2600 3.4Ghz, 16 GB RAMPrice Free-to-playRelease date Out nowPublisher Amazon GamesDeveloper Relentless StudiosMultiplayer Up to 16-player PvPvELink Official site Crucible seemingly checks all of the boxes needed to fit into the service game climate: a colorful roster of heroes […]
Continue ReadingNeed To Know What is it? A fun dungeon crawler set in the Minecraft universeExpect to pay $20 / £16Developer Mojang StudiosPublisher Mojang StudiosReviewed on i5-2500K, 8GB RAM, GTX 670Multiplier YesLink Official Site I’m blasting mobs with my firework arrows which explode into a cloud of colourful sparks on impact, dual-wielding sickles that freeze enemies, […]
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It’s hard to imagine that Xenoblade Chronicles is 10 years old now. The game, which was highly hyped up in the Wii era, is currently into its third remake in the space of a decade, after its initial run from Wii to 3DS and now onto Nintendo Switch—though it has a way of enticing people […]
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Image via Mojang We were as surprised as anyone when we first saw that Minecraft was branching into the hack-and-slash arena. Developed by Mojang Studios (the creators of Minecraft) and Double Eleven (the folks behind the Lego Harry Potter games for the PlayStation 4 and the Frozen Synapse reboot), Minecraft Dungeons is a unique idea […]
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Maneater is an unusual game. Developed by Tripwire Interactive, the studio behind Killing Floor and Red Orchestra, you play as a shark in an open-world, action-adventure game. You swim the oceans and swamps, chomp on humans, and try to fight your nemesis, Scaly Pete. Scaly Pete killed your mother, and that is not something you […]
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I’ve lost track of how many people I’ve eaten. My mission was to consume 10 golfers, and since people don’t golf in the ocean I had to jump out of the water and shimmy my way onto the golf course to start chowing down. Before I could finish my snack, three patrol boats filled with […]
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Third baseman Bobby Bashe steps into the box, tapping home plate with the tip of his bat hard enough to make the camera shake. All season long, Bashe has been my best base-stealer (despite his chunky body) and one of the league’s leading home run hitters, capable of turning a close game into a rout […]
Continue ReadingNeed to know What is it? City-building 4X without the extermination.Expect to pay £20/$20Developer Balancing Monkey GamesPublisher In-houseReviewed on Threadripper 2950X, 64GB RAM, GTX 1070TiMultiplayer NoLink Official site Space whales. It’s a combination of words that leaps off the page at you, but the closest thing to an antagonist this gentle city-builder has aren’t to […]
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Streets of Rage is so deeply ’90s, its main characters are named Axel and Blaze. They’re the kinds of names that made 12-year-olds whisper whoa, cool as they huddled around the box in a Blockbuster. Streets of Rage 4 is the game I imagine those kids creating if they grew up to be talented artists […]
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Need to know What is it? A game about driving big trucks down small roads.Expect to pay £35/$40Developer Saber InteractivePublisher Focus Home InteractiveReviewed on RTX 2080 Super, Intel i7-9700K, 16GB RAMMultiplayer 1-4 (Co-op)Link Official site There are moments in SnowRunner when I’m stuck halfway up a mountain, wheels churning pointlessly in the slop, that I […]
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Gears Tactics and I share the belief that a sniper rifle should practically be an extension of the hand of god, so powerful that it feels like you’re being unfair to the poor AI grunts who wander into range. Twenty hours into my campaign my sniper’s hotbar was overflowing with abilities. I could fire off […]
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Need to know What is it? Delivering packages in a cyberpunk city.Expect to pay £17/$20Developer Ion LandsPublisher Merge GamesReviewed on RTX 2080 Super, Intel i7-9700K, 16GB RAMMultiplayer NoneLink Developer website Whether it’s Blade Runner’s rain-soaked Los Angeles, the planet Coruscant in Star Wars, or the future New York imagined by The Fifth Element, there’s something […]
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NEED TO KNOW What is it? A city-scale turn-based tactics game about squashing resistance outfits before they reduce the city to anarchy.Expect to pay $20/£17Developer FiraxisPublisher 2KReviewed on Intel i5-4670K CPU, GTX 970, 8GB RAMMultiplayer NoLink Official site My squad hangs precariously from rappel lines at the windows of a warehouse. A resistance group has […]
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Need to know What is it? A live-action adventure game set in a locked-down lab.Expect to pay £10/$13Developer Good Gate Media, Little Jade ProductionsPublisher Wales InteractiveReviewed on RTX 2080 Super, Intel i7-9700K, 16GB RAMMultiplayer NoneLink Official site Sometime in the very near future, a woman on the London Underground coughs up blood and is quietly […]
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