It’s been five years since game development supergroup Campo Santo launched its first game, the indie adventure Firewatch. The studio has been on a long road since, and has now been absorbed into Half-Life creators Valve. The studio’s talent has most recently lent its skills to the 2020 VR...

Games are a very unique, yet young medium. The result is that the inter-medium trend we tend to think of is the liberal borrowing of cinematic techniques by the triple-A games industry. That’s all starting to change. Although we haven’t historically had the highest quality translations of...

The slick, fast-paced cyberpunk action game Ghostrunner oozes action-packed gameplay based around speed, precision and momentum and looks fantastic in motion. With its wonderful-looking dystopian setting, Ghostrunner is an excellent adventure. With that in mind, we’re going to take a look at...

It’s always a good time to look back through the past three decades and take stock of one of the industry’s most recognizable platforming adventure icons. Join us as we pick up our sword and leap through time, taking a look at each core title that has cemented the legacy of the Prince of...

Major spoilers for Devil May Cry 5 are contained within this article. Devil May Cry 5 excels at intertwining tremendously enjoyable gameplay with a world which emits a sense of ecstatic awe from us as we venture through the desolate hellscape which has grasped the city of Red Grave. Main...

Most gamers know that space is full of some weird stuff, and that, for the most part, it’s the kind of stuff you’re better off blowing up with a spaceship. While Space Invaders might be the most famous example of what’s wrong with space, R-Type taught us to keep calm in the face of the...

Somehow, Baldur’s Gate 3 is now a thing - an actual thing that you’ll be able to play when it releases in Early Access later this year. Perhaps more surprising than that fact is that Baldur’s Gate 3 is also shaping up to be mind-shatteringly good, and if you don’t believe the hype, here...

While 1983 might not seem that long ago in cinema terms, it’s ancient history on the video game timeline.  People still talk about the Return of the Jedi today, for instance, while 1983’s Star Wars (aka Star Wars: The Arcade Game) is very much from a long, long time ago. Since then,...

World Book Day lets us come together on the first Thursday of every March to celebrate the best fiction medium that’s ever existed. That’s right, the video game tie-in novel.  Many games contain a novel's worth of text and fiction, but strangely the video game tie-in novel is still...

The 80s were a time of excess and optimism, and no game quite captures the spirit of the 80s like OutRun.  Released smack in the middle of the decade, OutRun redefined racing games and encapsulated the 80s in arcade cabinet form. But its influence doesn’t stop there, as it left a lasting...

It’s a rare game series that can defy changing tastes to remain popular yet unchanged across seven titles, but the Metal Slug series has achieved it. The timeless franchise feels as much at home in today’s retro-styled indie scene as it did in its era origin. So let’s take a look at the...

If you aren’t from the past, then the easiest way to explain the Wipeout franchise to you is to say it’s a kart racer for grown-ups. The vehicle combat genre isn’t as popular as it once was, but the Wipeout franchise helped put that genre on the map of gaming history. So let’s crank up...