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It’s been an incredible decade for video games. That’s part of what makes putting a list like this, the definitive 100 games of the decade, so difficult to put together. Tens of thousands of games have been released since 2010, if not more – and it’s only but a small …

It’s the final week of December in 1995, and I’m 16, and my three brothers and I are on a family Christmas holiday to Devon, and it is chaos. We only escape London to visit these parts twice a year, and every evening during a week’s stay at my grandparents …

Give me a game that offers difficult, lasting choices, and I’ll give you a player base complaining about how inconsequential those story branches really are. We hear it all the time, from Telltale’s throttled plot points to the much maligned, highly controversial ending of Mass Effect 3 (opens in new …

There’s only one thing you need to know about Shenmue 3 and that is that – somehow – it is actually Shenmue 3. Given this is 2019, a time where a universally loved series can be destroyed in the first five minutes of a gritty sequel (I’m looking at you, …

We are half an hour into Grindstone, the sublime puzzler/brawler from Below developer Capy Games, when the penny drops and we realise just how special, how immediately vital, Apple Arcade is for mobile games. We’ve recently acquired our first Blueprint, from which we can craft a single-use item. We brace …

There are different kind of horror games for different kinds of people. Some enjoy the shock to the system of a particularly startling jump scare, where frightening sounds and imagery accost you like a slap to the face. But others (like me) prefer the subtle, slow-burn dread of great psychological …

With the release of Mass Effect Andromeda (opens in new tab) looming ever larger on the horizon, my mind has been pulled back into the orbit of EA’s most robust sci-fi setting, and I find myself wondering whatever happened to the long rumoured Mass Effect movie project. But before investigating …