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As I watch the tulips I just painted with my DualShock controller sprout to life on the once bare wall, swaying to and fro with illuminated colour and vibrancy, my heart’s instantly enchanted by the creative charm of Concrete Genie. Pixelopus’ adventure, with its uniquely heartfelt story bursting with imagination, …

As you watch the opening cutscene for Link’s Awakening, there’s a moment where it’s easy to forget just how strange this game really is. Whether it’s the fact there’s so much ambiguity about the story’s wider meaning or the fact it revolves around waking up a Wind Fish who’s sleeping …

Pitching itself as a gaming headset ideal for Switch, PC, Mobile and seemingly the kitchen sink, the HS35 represents Corsair’s newest attempt at offering general players an affordable, no-frills audio solution that can still be relied upon for great sound quality and comfort. It certainly undercuts the price of more …

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is aggressively inoffensive. This is a standalone spin-off with little to say, outside of casually reminding you that the Third Reich was bad, actually, as it hands you an assault rifle and pushes you out into the streets of Paris occupied by entrenched Nazi rule. Once there, Wolfenstein: …

Nothing really sums up the mission statement of this sequel to 2014’s Godzilla reboot better than its theme song. Composer Bear McCreary and System Of A Down singer Serj Tankian have covered Blue Öyster Cult’s ‘Godzilla’, incorporating guitar riffs, traditional Japanese chanting, and lyrics that should be annotating the pages …

In the build-up to Rage 2, Bethesda has portrayed the game in a way that makes you think it’s a completely unchained, anarchistic, chaotic experience where every fight will have you utilising a vast array of powers to obliterate enemies like some sort of demigod. While that is entirely possible, …

Time is everyone’s biggest enemy, it can lead a franchise into ruin after mediocre iterations gradually tear its reputation down or it can help establish a great legacy in being one of the greatest fighting series ever made. For Mortal Kombat 11, time is even more important. It firmly establishes …

On paper, it would be easy to dismiss Eighth Grade as just another high-school movie, infused as it is with the standard quotidian of Gen Z academic life from mean girls and crushes to clueless parents and teachers. And directed by a 27-year-old man, no less. What could the trials …

Cooler Master might not be the first name that springs to mind when you’re thinking about shopping for the best gaming keyboard (opens in new tab), but that might all be about to change with the release of the MK850. It’s an excellent mechanical keyboard on its own merits, with …

Metro Exodus is not a gigantic, seamless open-world game. It’s a focused, segmented first-person shooter that gets increasingly linear as you progress. It’s much more open than previous Metro games and it does have some chunky environments for you to explore, but it is not the same kind of sandbox …