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GTA 5 has never looked so beautiful. For a game now closing in on its ninth birthday, the enduring popularity of Rockstar’s golden goose is impressive. The crime simulator has received some extensive official glow-ups along the way, granted – it first starred on PS3 and Xbox 360, later received …

When I had the rare opportunity to sit down with three lead Destiny 2 designers and talk about the Season of the Haunted, I knew exactly what I had to ask about first: Persona 4. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve found it impossible to separate this season’s themes of …

When I die, just upload my consciousness to Nightingale, the upcoming Victorian dark fantasy open-world survival game from Inflexion Games. I was interested in the online adventure when it was announced, but after chatting with studio boss (and former manager of BioWare) Aaryn Flynn, I’m all in. The vintage, sinister …

“We are soulmates!” As Dusk Falls creative director and CEO of Interior/Night Caroline Marchal says to me, laughing. We’ve just finished playing through a 45-minute section of As Dusk Falls, which ends each section with feedback that tells you about each player’s values. As Dusk Falls is a co-op interactive …

Having walked more than a virtual mile in Master Chief’s shoes on consoles, seeing Halo’s protagonist on our television screens was always going to take some getting used to. Far from being the shoot first, ask questions later hero of the video games, the Halo series opted for a more …

In abstract, Tom Cruise bootcamp sounds fun, right? We’re imagining lectures on scaling buildings, advice on a long Hollywood career, and time for anecdotes of working with everyone from Ridley Scott to Steven Spielberg. Well, think again. For Top Gun: Maverick, bootcamp meant a four-month-long training process to get the …

In The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, I can’t bring myself to leave the broom closet. The narrator, who’s trying to guide me through the game, is getting more and more irate at my apparent fascination with this pokey little room. Despite their continued assurances that nothing is going to happen, …

Sharkmob was counting on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 settling the fanbase down before it released its free-to-play battle royale, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt. While an action game set in World of Darkness’ acclaimed Vampire universe has been a long time coming, the 18 year wait since the …

Despite its sci-fi RPG trappings, Chernobylite feels real. Every barren landscape, vast grey sky, and mortar-shelled building somehow feels familiar. And while this is partly owed to real-world Chornobyl’s myriad guises in TV and film over the last 36 years – and, sadly, in reality amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of …

Batman has always been known as an action hero, from the Bam! Zap! Pows!s of the 1966 show to his back-breaking battle with Bane in Knightfall. And yet, in his eight decades of existence, few creators have leaned into the action of his character more than fan-favorite artist and DC …