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Smoke and Sacrifice is a survival game packed with more threats to your personal health than a nightclub in Essex after 2am. If its menagerie of extremely unfriendly creatures doesn’t slaughter you, then the climate conditions, ghosts, or deadly smoke that descends with the night will. The biggest surprise of …

There’s a moment in God of War when you realise you can go anywhere. Clear of the opening set up, the game steps back, presents you with a map of the world and says, ‘you know what? You’re a demigod, you’ve got a boat: sort yourself out.’ It’s perhaps the …

To understand how tricky Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 children’s fantasy novel is to adapt, just hop back in time. In a mind-boggling what-if prospect, Stanley Kubrick was pursued to direct in 1979. But movie history remained unchanged as he passed on it, meaning nothing emerged until 2003’s messy TV movie showed …

“It’s hard for a good man to be a king.” Spoken in a mystical dream, these words resonate across Ryan Coogler’s splendid Black Panther, the MCU’s 18th movie – and its first one centred on a superhero of African origin. What it means to be a leader is a crucial …

With the launch of Skyrim VR and Doom VFR, along with a brilliant tech demo for the Last Guardian where you can actually pat the dog, it’s clear that Sony is pushing to make PlayStation VR really work. There are plenty of PSVR titles coming along that should make it …

It’s clear from the outset that Rime is special. With a slow, deliberate introduction, we meet a boy, washed ashore on a strange and unfamiliar beach with seemingly no memory of how he got there. A sweeping, beautiful soundtrack kicks in as the boy rises to his feet and takes …

The original Outlast (opens in new tab) is a masterclass in horror, its first hour an intimidating lesson in building fear and tension. From the moment you clamber into the abandoned Mount Massive Asylum – through a window that has clearly been used as an escape route – the grim …

Andromeda should have been a smart new chapter for the Mass Effect series. As far as the story goes, it is. 634 years since setting off into deep space, a colony of ships from the Milky Way – representing most of the major species from our galaxy – arrives in …

Trees bend and sway, storms blow across the landscape, buzzards circle overhead. The Witcher 3 (opens in new tab)’s world moves in a way that game worlds haven’t before. It’s one of the busiest ever made, and while it’s not the biggest in terms of raw square footage, it teems …

Forget everything you think you know about remastered video game rereleases, because new-gen Grand Theft Auto 5 punches the rule book, steals its car, and then reverses back over the battered, leathery remains just to be sure. The obvious question is ‘should I buy GTA 5 all over again?’ to …