Video games have been making us laugh for as long as we can remember. Yet often it’s by accident rather than design; a result of the player’s involvement spoiling the designer’s intent. “You can have this totally serious, heart-wrenching cutscene and the next moment, the player will ruin the mood …
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Even though there are plenty of the best PS5 games that make use of the new console, plenty of old favourites get nice upgrades even without dedicated patches. Too many to count (we’ve checked over 60), but generally if a game has an uncapped framerate, then it’ll jump up to …
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The opening sequence of this narrative adventure from Norwegian micro-studio Loeding is one of the most distinctive intros we’ve encountered in a long time. It all happens in a child’s mind: 12-year-old Oskar dreams of a world presented in a 2D ASCII aesthetic, with code built from letters and symbols. …
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What is Edge Presents: Game Changers? (Image credit: Future) Presented by Edge, Game Changers is a new editorial series that dives deeper into pivotal moments from console war history, from the original PlayStation launch in 1994, to Xbox’s billion-dollar red ring of death rescue plan. Each episode recaps the industry …
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What if we made a game where you shrunk down to the size of an ant?” As Roby Atadero tells it, that question is the driving force behind Obsidian Entertainment’s latest experiment. The senior programmer is quick to note that the concept was born in 2018, before the Microsoft acquisition …
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Hot on the heels of its triumphant Resi 2 reboot, Resident Evil 3 (opens in new tab) is action packed and the most impressive game yet in the survival horror franchise. In this month’s Official Xbox Magazine, read our extensive hands-on playtesting of Jill Valentine’s battle with the Nemesis. Save …
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You’d be hard-pressed to find a game as fixated on guns as Receiver 2. There are plenty of blockbuster shooters that love their military hardware, yes – but it’s hard to imagine any of them asking you to load individual rounds into a magazine or manually clear a weapon malfunction. …
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