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Few companies can turn failure into a success story quite like Nintendo. Whether it’s the Wii U games that tanked on release but are suddenly must-have games on Switch, or turning the fortunes of the laughed-out-of-town DS around almost overnight and growing it into one of the most successful handhelds …

Have you ever wondered who would win in a brawl between Nemesis and Jack Baker? This is the sort of argument that should have no clear answer. It should exist hypothetically, as a discussion designed to keep a divisive fandom engaged eternally in the online era. To celebrate Resident Evil’s …

Outriders has four “Mantras of Survival”; memorable maxims marketed by developer People can Fly to teach players about the unique rhythms of its third-person shooter combat. Currently, there’s “Cover’s for cowards”, “Think aggressive”, “Powers on tap”, and “Kill to heal”, but now that the game is out in the wild, …

1991 is the year that the 16-bit era came of age. Four years into the fourth generation of home consoles, developers unleashed a barrage of impressive, influential, and innovative video games that are as important today as they were for the time. Few years can lay claim to such a …

Remember the summer of 2019? All anyone could talk about was Avengers: Endgame, the box-office breaking superhero flick that brought Marvel’s Phase 3 to a climactic close. What was remarkable then, and continues to be now, is the three hour runtime: a necessary evil designed to give Marvel Studios the …

I don’t like Marianne in The Medium. I feel bad saying that, as though I’m betraying an old friend. It’s like she’s a girl I grew up with – someone I’ve spent a lot of time with, Been Through Stuff With – but have discovered I dislike in adulthood. Once …

A uniformed policeman sits wistfully in the centre of a provincial Russian town, his arms folded on one knee in a position resembling that of a bored child confined to the naughty step after a particularly egregious tantrum. You’d think his occupation would require him to adopt a more alert, …

It’s easy to forget when you’re wandering around Norway looking for Mjolnir that the Assassin’s Creed series is based on real history. Okay, so maybe not the bit about the godly Isu or the whole thing about Eivor being controlled by a 20th-century woman called Layla, but the actual history. …

For a certain generation of players, Diablo 2 wasn’t a video game – it was a rite of passage. If you made it past the piercing eyes of the Dark Wanderer, the skeletal embodiment of hell itself burned into the box art, there’s a good chance that you were duty-bound …

Developers talk a lot about signposting when figuring out how to gently guide players from Point A to Point B, but The Pedestrian takes that strand of game design to an entirely new level. Its premise, a 2.5D platformer that takes place entirely within the confines of public signage, is …