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From the slate of games Nintendo has on its roster for this year, 2022 could be a truly seminal year for the Japanese gaming giant. Although it has delivered some excellent titles in recent years, the Switch has used remakes and re-releases to balance out a steady rollout of new exclusives. However, that’s definitely not …

There’s ghostbusting, and then there’s ghostbusting channeled through the maniac mind of the legendary Shinji Mikami. In Ghostwire Tokyo you’ll deal with sinister spirits, ghost children, and cat shopkeepers, all while brandishing a range of spectacular spells to purge the streets of eerie enemies. From our latest look, the gameplay …

I don’t think it’s possible that there’s another game in existence that will have you bleeping out swearwords as British posh people put on a naked protest, choosing whether or not to support a growing political resistance, and potentially harming innocent children by advertising a dangerous toy. Not For Broadcast …

Fortnite: Battle Royale has to be one of the most divisive games ever. Depending on who you ask, it’s either a fun and accessible free-to-play shooter or a pop culture machine that does whatever it can to flip a V-Buck. Because the consensus is mostly split, where any sort of …

The trouble with Final Fantasy 14 is where to begin. You could start with A Realm Reborn, the base game overhaul which launched over a decade ago, or by diving into the climactic Endwalker expansion which arrived just last month. So vast is Final Fantasy 14 that every area of …

In Pupperazzi, you play as a sentient camera on legs in a world full of very, very good dogs. It makes complete sense, then, that as this walking photo machine, you spend all your time taking endless snaps of puppers riding skateboards, wearing tiny party hats, and dancing next to …

Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo is one of the weirder games you’ll stumble upon in your late-night Steam scrolling, but trust me when I say it’s also one of the more compelling. A modern-day take on the classic movie, it chucks out its inspiration’s plot and swaps in a horror writer, …

Magic and mystery lie at the heart of Forspoken. Square Enix is drawing on the experience of Luminous Productions to establish the core rhythms of its play, a new studio staffed up with the developers who helped bring Final Fantasy 15 to life. The world has been carefully crafted by …

My attempts to define what a combat system is continually escapes me. Is it a set of interconnected abilities? Is it the system whereby players upgrade their in-game characters? Is it a core ingredient of a game that sublimely supports the story? Or is it all of the above – …

You think key skills for being a witch would just be hat fashion sense, gingerbread architecture, and fruit poisoning, but it turns out that you really need some executive-level multitasking abilities. At least according to the visually delightful and fiendishly addictive Wytchwood, which you can play right now. As the …