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It’s 11 May, 2017. An unremarkable day for most, but for a 21-year-old Lara Croft, it’s a long-overdue homecoming. Walking through the gravel garden of Wilton House, the exquisite Wiltshire country home doubling for Croft Manor, is Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander. Lurking behind some nearby bushes: our sister publication Total Film …

You might have noticed that a trailer – see below – recently dropped for the new Slender Man horror movie. If you did, you might also have noticed that it debuted to no small negative response online. And if you did both of those things, but haven’t been embedded in …

During my first few minutes in Fortnite (opens in new tab)’s Battle Royale spin-off it seems like I really am getting a carbon copy of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (opens in new tab). It’s difficult to miss just how hard Epic has tried to reuse parts of Fortnite’s main, shelter-building, zombie-bashing game …

LGBT+ people (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans) are, by and large, poorly represented in video games. Moreover, the gaming world itself can be hugely anti-social, and often hostile towards LGBT+ gamers. It’s a safe bet that comments on this article on both GR and social media will be rife with …

It’s either a shrewd spot of meta satire or a deeply unsettling coincidence that the first episode in Black Mirror season 4, set in a fully immersive video game parody of Star Trek, was released only a few months after the launch of an actual Star Trek VR experience  – …

If you’ve finished all three episodes of Life is Strange: Before the Storm (opens in new tab), then you already know: against all odds, developer Deck Nine managed to create a narrative that’s just as powerful and poignant as Dontnod’s original game. Being able to play as the fan-favorite Chloe …

Horizon Zero Dawn (opens in new tab) is easily among the best games of 2017 (opens in new tab), with its gorgeously verdant post-post-apocalypse, tense cat-and-mouse encounters with colossal robo-animals, and a main character by the name of Aloy who quickly cemented herself as one of gaming’s greatest female leads. …

Fast facts Call of Cthulhu release date: TBC 2018 Developer: Cyanide Publisher: Focus Home Interactive  Format: PS4, Xbox One, PC Paintings are usually rather nice things to look at. The last thing you’d want when you’re gazing at one is for some interdimensional creature to come shambling out, all long …

“Last night I was playing this game when…” After a long evening of binging your game of choice, everyone experiences a moment that you have to tell the world about (loudly, and probably on Twitter). Taking down a boss with a sliver of health left, shooting a falling bit of …

For me, The Last Jedi (opens in new tab) is the best of the Star Wars movies. Far from perfect, a little too long, and not without its overly-saccharine moments, it delivers all the things a Star Wars movie should in 2017. While not exclusively a product of its time …