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The History Channel’s Vikings may have drawn to a close, but the story does not end with Ragnar, Lagertha, and Rollo. Set around 150 years later, Vikings: Valhalla is Netflix’s attempt to crack the Norse code and shape real-world legends into a gripping historical epic. Vikings: Valhalla begins with the …

Elden Ring’s creative director, Hidetaka Miyazaki, is hunkered down in his office at FromSoftware’s Japanese HQ, bundled up in a black padded winter vest. Despite a perennially youthful face, his demeanour this evening is unmistakably sober, alert. Behind his desk are shelves lined with the colourful spines of books he …

It’s difficult to know what to make of Sonic Frontiers. SEGA is promising an expanded adventure, a leap forward for a franchise that has long-struggled to find its footing with a third dimension in play. It has so far shown little of it, outside of a reveal trailer in the …

During the demo for Oxenfree 2: Lost signals, I watch as protagonist Riley Poverly walks along a path with an old high school acquaintance, Jacob. The pair talk about a teacher Jacob recalls them both having, and just like the first Oxenfree game, response options pop up above Riley’s head …

In GTA 5, Mount Chiliad is a monster. Reaching higher than any other geographical feature in the San Andreas sprawl, the rocky range hugs the dusty drags of Blaine County at its base and kisses the clouds 800m above sea level at its peak. It is instantly recognisable, and yet …

PUBG will become free-to-play on all platforms from January 12, 2022. That decision reflects how the world has shifted around the trailblazing first-person shooter – the game that transformed the battle royale from DayZ mod to global phenomenon. It’s been almost five years since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds entered early access and …

Dying Light 2 handles surprisingly well on PlayStation 4. The early build I played toward the end of last year wasn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it is perfectly playable – perhaps that’s all we can ask for at this stage of the game. As we push …

The Witcher is heading in a new direction. Where once Geralt (Henry Cavill) rode solo, he now has a new charge thanks to the Law of Surprise: Ciri, the Lion Cub of Cintra (Freya Allan). Their destination? The witchers’ home base of Kaer Morhen – and among Geralt’s fellow band …

Until earlier this year, I worked in the media department at a top-tier professional football club. During a team flight to a European match a few years back, one of the squad’s best players at the time was sitting in the row in front of me, playing Football Manager on …

Screw those double uzi-wielding Ballas. Screw that crooked, pyromaniac Officer Tenpenny. And screw that bong-puffing, light switch-fiddling Big Smoke. Despite being hard as nails, ‘End of the Line’ – the climax of 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – is one of the best storyline missions in the crime series’ …