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Artwork from the Tormenture game, showing a small child cross legged in front of an old TV set playing a video game, and there are big blue scary hands reaching out of the screen to grab them.

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What we've been playing - sequel prep, nostalgic horror, and birds

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Nov. 30, 2024 Robert Purchese

108 comments

Standing in front of a large green crystal in Brighter Shores.

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Now Playing | Brighter Shores feels an awful lot like RuneScape, but its promising start is still missing some key ingredients

Misty coast.

Nov. 28, 2024 Lottie Lynn

3 comments

Image showing an equasion: a copy of Forspoken plus a PS5 Pro equals question mark

Opinion

The PS5 Pro's major missing feature and a ?5 copy of Forspoken has shown me a future I really don't want

I'm sorry, disc drives, I didn't realise how much I needed you until you were gone.

Nov. 28, 2024 Tom Orry

351 comments

The mysterious tentacle-faced merchant Xur in Destiny. Here they are standing in a forest of pine trees.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Merchants or Shopkeepers

No refunds.

Nov. 27, 2024 Robert Purchese

42 comments

An airship hovers over a desert battlefield full of mechs in Mechabellum

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Now Playing | If you like chess and robots, you need to play Mechabellum

Mechmate.

Nov. 26, 2024 Matt Cox

4 comments

The Witcher 3 wild hunt Geralt on horseback

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The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?

It's about time.

Nov. 24, 2024 Robert Purchese

83 comments

A screenshot from Asterism, showing a spacesuit-clad character at a control panel of a spaceship - a spaceship that looks like it's been made out of cardboard.

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What we've been playing - music videos, gaudy zombies and camo grinds

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Nov. 23, 2024 Robert Purchese

9 comments

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Digital Foundry | How to build a white gaming PC 2024: part selection, deal-finding and much more

Plus: a review of the NZXT H6 Flow, our top case pick.

Nov. 22, 2024 Will Judd

16 comments

A woman readies her bow in a forest scene in Avowed.

Interview

How Avowed is building its world on Pillars of Eternity

Support column.

Nov. 21, 2024 Rick Lane

A Flight Simulator 2024 screenshot showing a plane approaching a distant tornado beneath a brooding sky.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Planes

Winging it.

Nov. 20, 2024 Robert Purchese

A photo of an award on a table. The award is circular and stood up on a circular base. In the middle is what looks like a globe but actually it's a deconstructed controller that looks like a globe. Around it is green and blue, and the material looks to be stone of some kind. It's very pretty actually.

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Big changes for the Green Game Jam as it targets triple-A games

Planet toaster.

Nov. 20, 2024 Robert Purchese

Towers of Aghasba screenshot shows the player riding a small animal, while a larger beast roars in the background.

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Now Playing | Towers of Aghasba offers mindless pleasures and tiny hippos to pelt with fruit

Shore thing.

Nov. 19, 2024 Christian Donlan

A view from a wooden platform overlooking the sea in the game Rust. In the distance is an oil rig - the the same oil rig that has been painted onto a board in the foreground of the image. In the painting, the oil rig is silhouetted against a deep red sun that's dipping into the sea behind it. In 'reality', we see the oil rig in daylight. It's a striking painting.

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I painted landscapes in the horribly violent world of Rust

A brush with death.

Nov. 17, 2024 Emma Kent

11 comments

Karate Survivor key art. It shows a six characters arranged in a V shape, facing the camera, with skyscrapers and two fists in the background, somewhat inexplicably. It's exactly the kind of image you'd see on a '90s Hong Kong action movie poster: young hero, muscular thugs, baseball bats, guns. There's gonna be some punching going down.

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Now Playing | This Vampire Survivors-like is a knock-out blend of Jackie Chan martial arts and the prop flinging of Yakuza

A black belter.

Nov. 17, 2024 Robert Purchese

Artwork of an orc clutching an axe in Warcraft 2

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From The Archive | Warcraft 2 was terrific, influential - and absolutely ridiculous

Historical conflict.

Nov. 16, 2024 Paul Dean

23 comments

A Lego Fortnite image showing a fishy Lego character holding a torch in a darkened area.

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What we've been playing - Lego horror, cheerful games, and others we just can't get into

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Nov. 16, 2024 Robert Purchese

Blizzard artwork showing the familiar sight of hulking green orcs facing off against grey plate-wearing, blue-plume helmeted humans. Will they ever be friends?

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Opinion | I love World of Warcraft, but I wish Blizzard would stop looking backwards

Job's done?

Nov. 15, 2024 Robert Purchese

Two Beastieball teams prepare to fight in Beastieball.

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Now Playing | Beastieball gives Pokémon an Into the Breach-style sports twist, and I can't get enough of it

Volley good.

Nov. 14, 2024 Katharine Castle

A boy holds up a snail close to his face in Miniatures.

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Now Playing | Miniatures is a dreamy, interactive picture book of strange, dark tales I would have loved to have as a kid

Amanita more of this.

Nov. 14, 2024 Katharine Castle

A photograph of the PS5 Pro and Dualsense controller.

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The PS5 Pro value dilemma - is a release from FOMO all you're getting here?

Did Sony really take the PSSR?

Nov. 14, 2024 Tom Orry

An image - it could be a photograph - a vintage TV sit sat on a surface in the dark, emitting a snowy static glow.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: TVs

LED it be known.

Nov. 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

This could be a scene from a Japanese horror film, except it looks like a scene from an old adventure game. It's painted in two colours, one a kind of brown for the environment, and one in purple showing a hunched over girl holding the end of a bed, hair obscuring her face. She is out to get you.

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The anatomy of a scare: how do games frighten you?

Jump. Stare.

Nov. 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

FM24 screenshot showing the pre-match lineup screen for Manchester United

Feature

I tried Ruben Amorim's tactics with Manchester United in Football Manager, and the results were all over the place

Devils, play, cry.

Nov. 10, 2024 Chris Tapsell

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Digital Foundry | PlayStation 5 Pro: what does the PS4 image enhancement feature actually do?

To what extent do legacy PS4 games improve on a 4K screen?

Nov. 9, 2024 Oliver Mackenzie

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What we've been playing - Agatha Harkness, karate, and the Smurfs

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Nov. 9, 2024 Robert Purchese