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Before Elden Ring, I couldn’t have imagined comparing FromSoftware games to the Sniper Elite series. Storming a Nazi stronghold in the French countryside, murdering a captain and casing a farmhouse mansion for intel really is a million miles from wading knee-deep in Blighttown’s poisonous sludge. But, now well over 200 …

Genshin Impact has added dozens of characters and many regions in the 18 months or so since launch, but its pinnacle content hasn’t changed much at all. The hardest recurring challenge in the game is still the Spiral Abyss dungeon, and while it has gotten noticeably harder over time with …

It’s golden hour at Ilios, and I’ve never seen it like this before. The low-hanging sun bathes the whitewashed buildings in a soft orange hue, the ancient ruins seem to emit their own glow of light – and I’m interrupted from admiring them by an Orisa spear through my gut. …

The Game Boy Advance is home to some fantastic games. In fact, many of my fondest childhood memories stem from playing the best GBA games on my indigo-colored handheld. I still remember being entirely enraptured by Pokemon Sapphire during a long drive home from a trip to France – despite …

Hidetaka Miyazaki has never seemed like one for sequels, which perhaps explains why his familiar gameplay template has appeared under so many different names. The Soulsborne lineage, or whatever clunky portmanteau has supplanted the label now that Elden Ring has released, has shuffled us not just between titles but styles, …

The best video game cliches are the ones that we couldn’t live without, no matter how much they make us cringe. If you’ve spent any length of time in virtual worlds big or small, chances are you’ll have come across many, if not all, of the classic video game cliches …

Haven Studios has joined the PlayStation Studios family. This is the second major acquisition of 2022 from Sony Interactive Entertainment, following the move to purchase Destiny and Halo creator Bungie for $3.6 billion back in January. Unless you follow the video game industry closely, there’s a reasonably good chance that …

It’s been five long unorganized years, but Nintendo Switch folders are finally here. This long-awaited/long-overdue/heavily-requested [delete as necessary] feature arrived as part of Update 14.0.0 which, once downloaded, will give you the ability to group your games into custom Switch folders. While the capacity to group games into custom folders …

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve raced my way through each cup in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. At this point, I know every track so well that I tend to drive through them like clockwork. I’ve learned every bend in the road, every item box placement, and every …

I hope that Rebirth Island Reinforced rekindles my love for Warzone. While I can largely credit Call of Duty: Warzone for maintaining my sanity through two years of lockdowns – a nightly distraction from the hastening erosion of time – my interest in Activision’s battle royale has admittedly started to …