Elden Ring is the next offering from From Software, the merry band of maddeningly talented folks behind the likes of Dark Souls, Bloodborne and most recently, the fantastic Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.  Arguably one of the most highly anticipated games of the year and not to mention one of...

From The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt through to the likes of Discworld and Metro Exodus, some of the best video games you could ever hope to play have been based on books. We've decided to adjust our reading glasses and take a closer look at a selection of books that were turned into really rather good...

There’s no getting around it - God of War coming to PC is a properly massive event. Indeed, no longer will PC gamers have to gaze with envious eyes at their PlayStation siblings because as of January 2022, Kratos will be bringing his particularly compelling blend of hi-octane brutality and...

Befitting the series moniker, Monster Hunter games wouldn’t really be Monster Hunter games without, well, monsters to hunt. However, as reductively simple as that descriptor might seem, there have been literally hundreds of different monsters spread across a wide variety of titles in the series,...

Rockstar’s gritty sandbox game series, Grand Theft Auto, is officially the most successful video game franchise to ever originate from the UK. And with the long-awaited (and recently patched) Definitive Edition, it’s now available for the most recent generation of consoles. There’s no...

As anyone with even a passing acceptance of video games will know, some of the best examples of the medium are those that have cracking sidekicks; those special companions that define the journey that you go on and who remain by your side when the brown stuff goes down. As such, it’s certainly...

Arguably one of the spookiest and most inventive survival horror efforts of 2012, Alan Wake returns to PC and modern consoles with a whole new coat of paint in Alan Wake Remastered. As with any remaster, however, it begs the question - just what are the Alan Wake Remastered differences and...

Casting players as the furious rebel firebrand of a Cuba-inspired island battling for freedom against a tyrannical regime...the whole thing would certainly be a lot easier if you had other like-minded folks battling alongside you. So, how does Far Cry 6 crossplay and multiplayer fare? Well, like a...

It's a commonly-known fact that if you’re trying to overthrow a nasty dictator in a video game, you basically need the collective arsenal of a small country to get the job done. Like all the previous games, the weapons in Ubisoft's Far Cry 6 certainly don't disappoint in this regard, so we’re...

The last time the Aliens franchise had a shooter offering all to itself it's certainly fair to say that it didn't turn out especially well. However, it's now 2021 and thanks to the folks at Cold Iron Studios we just got Aliens: Fireteam Elite, an all-new third-person shooter set in the Aliens...

In Assassin's Creed Valhalla, flyting is essentially the Viking equivalent of the insult contests in the Secret of Monkey Island where the word ends up being sharper than the sword. Well, it's not, but you get what I mean. Anyway, there's benefits in Assassin's Creed Valhalla for talking smack...

Seemingly similar at first glance, you might very well wonder what the differences are between Amplitude Studios' Humankind and Firaxis’ Civilization 6. Both games are ultra sophisticated, time-spanning 4X strategy efforts in which the player takes control of a nation in a bid to advance them to...