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Ghost of Yotei review: "One of the first PS5 games to feel truly boundary-pushing, this hyper violent samurai revenge quest truly hooked me"
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2 years after seeing an Owlbear crush a cultist in Baldur's Gate 3, I'm ditching my usual spellcasting builds to embrace the Wild Shape lifestyle in my first multiplayer campaign
Now Playing Now Playing | Welcome back, Bear Gate 3
Which Borderlands 4 character should you play?
Guide Borderlands 4 has four Vault Hunter classes to choose at launch so pick a favorite
8 Borderlands 4 tips and tricks to help you survive Kairos
Guide Set yourself up for success to overthrow the Timekeeper with these Borderlands 4 tips and tricks
As The Outer Worlds 2 embraces "crunchy" role-playing, its directors say people are "more open" to deeper RPGs after Baldur's Gate 3: "It's good to bring that stuff to the forefront again"
Interview Big Preview | Obsidian is making the game it originally wanted The Outer Worlds to be, and returning to the studio's roots while doing it
Borderlands 4 does what Destiny couldn't: I'm finally back on the looter shooter train, and it feels like reliving my 60 hours in Borderlands 2
Now Playing Now Playing | Maybe I've been the problem all along
September's Nintendo Direct told us a lot about the Switch 2's future, and I fear 2026 is the year I crack and buy another handheld
Opinion Opinion | The foundations are only just coming together
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave – Everything we know about the strategy game's Switch 2 debut
Guide Nintendo just announced a new Fire Emblem game, so here is your complete guide on everything Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
Borderlands 4 review: "Undeniably an excellent looter shooter, but one that requires a bit of tunnel vision to fully enjoy"
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Hollow Knight Silksong has made me realize how much the Steam Deck has changed the way I play games
Opinion Now Playing | Handheld Hornet is the best Hornet
Hollow Knight Silksong has beat my ass for 11 hours, but it's not too hard – we just have a problem with instant gratification
Opinion Opinion | We didn't always fly through games
2 hours in, and Hollow Knight Silksong is already making me feel like I'm playing Dark Souls for the first time again
Now Playing Now Playing | A stranger comes to town
"Everyone knows GoldenEye, it's a legendary game": 007 First Light boss says his goal is to make an all-timer James Bond game, even if the result is "very different" to Hitman
Interview Gamescom 2025 | IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak explains how the studio tackled James Bond's origin story
Outer Worlds 2 bosses "think it's funny" they've made an RPG about evil mega-corporations with Microsoft as their new owner: "It'd be ridiculous to say we don't notice that"
News "Regardless of who's funding it, we're still trying to tell that same message"
Menace is an XCOM-Warhammer hybrid that makes turn-based strategy feel like an immersive sim, and for the first time in my life I'm playing a game that seems made for me
Preview Gamescom 2025 | From the publisher behind Manor Lords comes a long-awaited substitute for playing XCOM 2 over and over again
I built a home and ran a business in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's next DLC, and the added role-playing guarantees I'll spend another 70 hours in my current game of the year
Preview Gamescom 2025 | Build a life in Kuttenberg with daily quests, a customizable house, and yet another misadventure for poor Henry
We asked Obsidian about romance in The Outer Worlds 2, and now I'm a little hopeful the RPG may follow Avowed's example: "It truly does need to be something that's organic"
Interview Interview | "If it [romance] naturally kind of came up as a thing, sure, maybe we could talk about that, but it wasn't a goal from the very beginning"
Playing Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era has turned me into a Dungeon devotee, and I can't help but feel like I'm already seeing a strategy classic in the making
Preview Gamescom 2025 | I would have spent all day playing Olden Era, if it wouldn't have cost me my job
"You could go and keep beating up people on top of buildings" forever in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, but devs say "we're not making GTA" because even vampires need to sleep
News Vice City? No, no, you're in vampire country now
"The shorthand is New Vegas in space": The Outer Worlds 2 directors double down on Fallout comparisons, and Obsidian isn't worried about setting expectations too high: "It's our pedigree"
Interview Interview | Game director Brandon Adler and creative director Leonard Boyarsky discuss going all-in on Obsidian's classic formula, making fun of their boss, and moving in a different direction to Avowed
Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail left the MMO's community fatigued and fed up, so Yoshi-P says devs are "planning to upgrade" new content that "can be enjoyed by a wide variety of different players"
News Square Enix hopes to "provide more interesting experiences"
The Outer Worlds 2 leads say RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3 helped prove "people really, actually want these kinds of games" at a time where even Obsidian "had to prove ourselves all over again"
News "It's good to kind of bring that stuff to the forefront again"
