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A dwarf with a pipe and weapon on their shoulder stands in front of a table, chair, and fireplace

D&D virtual tabletop Sigil is as good as dead, and I can't stop thinking about what could have been

By Benjamin Abbott published

Feature I look back at what could have been.

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Naoe tackles a Path activity challenge in Assassin's Creed Shadows, crouching on a perch ready to make several more dangerous leaps ahead

Assassin's Creed Shadows' yellow paint parkour challenges are a highlight for me after 11 hours jumping around the world

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Now playing Now Playing | Assassin's Creed Shadows' use of yellow paint points towards some really fun parkour challenges

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33 players swarm into a level in 33 Immortals

33 Immortals' 33-player co-op roguelike chaos keeps pulling me back, and its early access is on Xbox Game Pass today

By Justin Towell published

Now playing Now Playing | Thunder Lotus Games' new roguelike is ready for Early Access release and co-operating with strangers is the key to victory

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I'm declaring war on gaming chair armrests in 2025

By Duncan Robertson published

Opinion Nobody seems to like gaming chair armrests that don't lock into a certain position, so why are they starting to show up more often?

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Key art for Assassin's Creed Rogue Remastered showing Shay Patrick Cormac in a black and red outfit that's a cross between Assassin and Templar armor, with his ship The Morrigan behind him

Assassin's Creed Shadows can wait – I spent 40 hours mopping up the map in the one game in the series everyone skipped

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Now Playing Now Playing | Assassin's Creed Rogue was scuppered by bad release timing, but this last hurrah for the series' golden era is a terrific dark eagle, and I can't believe it took me so long to notice

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AMD's pro-consumer 9070 strategies are exactly why it's primed to dominate the CPU market in 2025

By Duncan Robertson published

Opinion AMD is enjoying success with its 9070 GPUs, but its pro-consumer strategies are paying off in the CPU market too. Here's why AMD is set to win in 2025.

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Goro Majima in his pirate outfit, leading his crew in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

10 years after Yakuza 0, Majima's swashbuckling return finally puts a bowline knot on decades of character growth

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Opinion Opinion | Across almost forty years in-universe, it's been an unavoidably long time since I had a solid hangout sesh with Goro Majima – Pirate Yakuza gives me what I needed

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New movie from the producers of Poor Things is a Gothic fairytale that pays homage to The Haunting of Hill House

By Emily Garbutt published

Big Screen Spotlight Big Screen Spotlight | Ariane Labed's directorial debut September Says is a dark exploration of teenage sisterhood

Big Screen Spotlight
Majima sings karaoke in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

I spent 15 hours clearing a recycled map I'd already explored and loved every second – Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is a greatest hits album and then some

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Now Playing Now Playing | You can take the yakuza out of Kamurocho, but you can't take the hours and hours of side content out of the yakuza

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A massive fireball explosion engulfs Chieftain Grithin in Avowed

In 14 years I couldn't get through Skyrim, but smashed through Avowed in a weekend thanks to its bite-sized exploration and high-impact combat

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Now playing Now Playing | Can Avowed convert this Skyrim faithless? I'm too distracted smacking xaurips off ledges to think about it

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