It has been *check notes* nearly a whole decade since the last offline single-player Fallout title graced our hands, eyeballs and ear holes. Exceptional standalone modding efforts aside, it still surprises me that given the creatively fertile width and breadth of the Fallout franchise, the series...
Whoever thought that playing an incandescently furious and vengeful Demi-god hellbent on murdering a veritable pantheon of deities could be so much fun? Well, Sony Santa Monica did back in 2005, when the Californian studio unleashed God of War upon PlayStation 2 owners to overwhelming critical and...
Critically and commercially beloved the world over, the Monster Hunter franchise is set to unleash its most ambitious offering yet in Monster Hunter Wilds. Second only to the juggernaut Resident Evil franchise in lifetime sales, it’s fair to say that Capcom’s long-running Monster Hunter series...
The notion of dual protagonists in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed games is hardly a novel one. Indeed, the whole concept debuted nearly ten years ago in 2015’s Victorian London set Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and arguably provided something of a breath of fresh air from the series'...
From The Usual Suspects to Oldboy (the Korean original, obviously) and everything in between, there is certainly no shortage of classic movies that boast some truly jaw-dropping twists that upend everything you thought you knew. The same also happens to be true of narratives in video games, as...
Arguably one of the best commercially and critically received superhero series of all time, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 puts an emphatic exclamation mark on that statement. Not only does Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 dramatically raise the stakes compared to the previous two games in the series, but a...
Deserving of the Game of the Year award haul that was scooped up back in 2018, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was the sort of open-world, no-fantasy, historical fiction RPG that folks had long yearned for. With Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 now upon us nearly six and a half years later and already...
The cascading effect that Sega’s Virtua Fighter franchise has had on the fighting game genre cannot be understated. With the first Virtua Fighter title hitting the arcades all the way back in the dark mists of October 1993 (more than a year before the first Tekken title would make its arcade...
When veritable indie darling Hyper Light Drifter stole its way into our collective hearts in March 2016, it redefined what we expected from the independent game development scene. Here was a thunderous action adventure RPG that harkened back to the finest 16-bit classics, paying ample homage to...
Though we’ve had various Monster Hunter Rise spin-offs in recent years, it’s fair to say that there hasn’t been a full-fat, full-sugar successor to Capcom’s epic Monster Hunter: World since its release in 2018. All of that changes with Monster Hunter Wilds, however, as Capcom looks to...
Even though 2024 was hardly lacking in Game of the Year candidates, it looks set to pale in comparison to the mammoth selection of seemingly certified bangers that 2025 is tipped to bring. From the looter shooter-flavoured, jet-black comedy of Borderlands 4 to the all-encompassing sensation that...
With Diablo IV releasing just a year and a half ago, it’s probably not too surprising to discover that a good number of players are already becoming somewhat tired of what Blizzard’s latest stab at the dungeon crawler genre has been offering up. Thankfully then, the long-awaited Path of Exile...
