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It’s been far from smooth sailing for Skull and Bones. In development for nearly a decade, building off tech that we first saw in 2012’s Assassin’s Creed 3, a novel opportunity for a side project seems to have become the albatross around Ubisoft Singapore’s neck. Now, it looks like the …

The best NES games of all-time are all classics. They aren’t just fantastic video games in their own right, but experiences that helped to establish Nintendo’s biggest franchises and make the manufacturer a force to be reckoned with in the industry. When the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in 1983, the …

The Xbox Bethesda Games Showcase was breathless. Microsoft Gaming showed over 30 upcoming Xbox Series X games in a 95 minute conference. All set to release in the next 12 months, and most with actual in-game footage (rather than in-engine cinematics, which the company had been previously criticised for relying …

Just a few minutes into my A Plague Tale: Requiem hands-on and Amicia de Rune is shin-deep in shit. While that would be an apt description for the sequel to a stealth horror game about avoiding ravenous rats, it’s also quite literally what’s happening. Amicia and Lucas have set out …

You arrive in V Rising by mythical means, scrambling to establish a foothold in the mysterious world that you’ve been somehow summoned into. You attempt to evade the worst that the fauna and the elements have to throw at you, quickly erecting four walls and setting up a place to …

I have a friend who’s a big Call of Duty: Warzone player, or so it seems at first glance. Sure, he’s technically racking up hours on the “time-played” counter, but what he actually plays more than anything else is Rebirth Island. It’s a specific, separate mode in Warzone, where you …

There’s this old adage in industry circles, that the last 10% of a video game’s development is 90% of the work. You have to imagine that this is the trap the two biggest upcoming Xbox Series X exclusives for 2022 tumbled into, following the delay of Redfall and Starfield to …

Let’s all try to meet in the middle, I guess. battle passes have been around for about a decade now – the earliest I could find was Dota 2 doing it in 2013, but I’m sure there were variations on it before – and publishers have clearly been pushing this …

Are some things unforgivable? That’s the question the Barry season 3 premiere wrestles with, and it’s one without an easy answer. From the very beginning, there’s been a sense that Barry – Bill Hader’s hitman-turned-actor-turned-hitman-again – could leave violence behind, if only the world would stop throwing obstacles in his …

My first case in Chinatown Detective Agency has led me from Singapore to London. I’ve scaled a riverside residential block, and am now standing outside the apartment of a man who I believe has kidnapped a missing woman. Diplomacy is key in these situations, I tell my client over the …