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We prepared for trouble when ranking the best Pokemon games. Naturally, there are some strong feelings around games that have spanned eight generations and four decades of Nintendo’s handheld consoles. So. to keep it somewhat simple, we decided to stick to the core games in the franchise, rather than including …

The laugh-filled yin to Batman’s growly yang; the Darth Vader to The Dark Knight’s Luke Skywalker; The Caped Crusader’s Kryptonite. We are, of course, talking about the Joker. With The Batman brooding its way into cinemas and introducing a new Joker into the mix, it seemed right to rank the best …

Games like Uncharted are games with great storytelling, iconic characters, and action-packed gameplay that feels like a blockbuster film. If you’ve spent hours with Nathan Drake and Sully and are missing some action after Uncharted 4 (opens in new tab): A Thief’s End, we’ve got a collection of games for …

If the latest Viking escapades with Eivor have given you a taste for games like Assassin’s Creed, you’ll be happy to know there plenty of experiences out there that capture some of the features of the historical, stealthy series, or deliver an adventure in a similar vein. From exploration to …

Christmas may be in the rear-view mirror, but D&D players are getting a late present anyway via the Dungeons and Dragons Rules Expansion Gift Set. Pulling together older books to go with a brand-new one that features improved player options and spruced-up monsters, it’s positioning itself as the next logical …

Curious about Resident Evil Village but afraid it’s too scary for your brittle constitution? That was exactly me a week ago, but I’m happy to report that I’ve since beaten it, and I think you can too. The latest Resident Evil outing is actually the perfect scary game for scaredy …

The best video games are those that subvert our expectations… or are they? As The Last of Us 2 (opens in new tab) recently exemplified, players aren’t always happy when a developer deliberately misdirects them with its promotional material for a video game, only to tell a story that’s not …

“We’ve been working on this for a while,” says project manager Eric Buhlman of bringing Elder Scrolls Online to Stadia. The devs behind the port are assuring fans that playing one of the most active MMOs in the cloud should be a versatile, accessible, smooth experience. The Elder Scrolls Online …

To some extent, game design is in constant flux. But the dramatic shift from sprite-based to polygonal gaming in the late ’90s required the way games were designed to be all but reinvented. Understandably, many early 3D production teams relied overly on designs proven by sprite-based gaming. And as former …

1. This Bayonetta and Vanquish bundle is all about bangs for your buck Bayonetta and Vanquish helped cement Platinum Games as the king of modern action games, and even after all these years, Bayonetta is still the second-best beat-’em-up around – second only to Bayonetta 2, that is – and …