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Metro Exodus (opens in new tab) shares a distinctive look and feel with its predecessors. Much of that can be attributed to 4A’s proprietary technology, appropriately titled 4A Engine and based in C++. Its visual benefits are abundant: in addition to arguably the highest visual fidelity levels in an FPS …

This may be an unfashionable view in these Tweet-length, emoji-voiced times, but surely the greatest strength of video-games is their ability to tell complex, involving stories at a greater length – and in a more immersive manner – than any other medium? Unique experimental stories, like What Remains Of Edith …

We’re celebrating the end of an incredible decade for games, movies, and TV shows. Super Mario Odyssey is one of the games that defined the last 10 years of play, placing 11th in our 100 best games of the decade rankings. Read on to find out why… For a game series so …

Read more (Image credit: House House) The best indie games of 2019 (opens in new tab) (and beyond) Games famously treat death as a pavlovian penalty for player error, but Arise: A Simple Story decides to kill off our protagonist before we’ve even pressed a button. Our nameless greybeard’s funeral …

Read more (Image credit: Ubisoft) Ubisoft games have a new cliche, and it’s turning us all into social media stars (opens in new tab) Falls are the second leading cause of accidental death amongst the human race every year. Apologies if that comes across as morbid, but it’s worth reminding …

The touchstones for Arise: A Simple Story are hardly subtle. The story opens in unexpectedly sombre fashion at a funeral pyre (Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (opens in new tab)), before our main protagonist awakes in limbo (… Limbo (opens in new tab)), only to be immediately drawn to …

On November 27, the fourth (and final) issue of Kurt Busiek and John Paul Leon’s Batman: Creature of the Night will be released. The book is drawn, lettered, colored, and editor Chris Conroy has confirmed it’s already been sent to the printers. (Image credit: John Paul Leon (DC)) (opens in …

Imagine you’re playing squads in Fortnite (opens in new tab) Battle Royale with three other friends, having emerged from Tilted Towers unscathed after an intense firefight (not a realistic image, I know, but just roll with me here). You make it to Shifty Shafts and spot another team of four …

“Nothing ever ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.” (Image credit: DC) (opens in new tab) Touted as “the most celebrated graphic novel of all time,” (opens in new tab) Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen (opens in new tab) is getting thrust back in the spotlight this week, with the nigh-omnipotent …