Some fans joined the series in the murk of the Playstation years, others stumbled into the wrong town as late as P.T. Either way, the Silent Hill series has ensnared countless poor souls since it debuted in 1999. The cancellation of Silent Hills left these souls stranded in the Otherworld and,...

Archaeology may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but don’t let Lara Croft hear you say that. She may not dig trenches or give lectures, but Lara’s contribution to video gaming history is unquestionable. Tomb Raider is the product of a bygone era, but its most recent trilogy and the...

Alone on a beach is a good vacation. Alone on a beach surrounded by dinosaurs? Not so much. ARK: Survival Evolved has been around for a while now, but it’s far from extinct. With a huge amount of content to plough through and a consistently strong player base, now is a great time to visit...

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order isn’t just a great Star Wars game, it’s also a Greatest Hits package of the last decade in gaming. It lifts from such diverse titles as Dark Souls, Dead Space, Titanfall and Uncharted, remixing elements with the kind of cherry-picking spirit that created Star Wars...

Colonists, Halcyon needs you! If you’re planning a trip to the capitalist dystopia of Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds, then you’ll want to know how to kickstart your career as a minimum-wage nobody. Luckily, we’re here to help with our guide to getting started in The Outer...

2019, year of dreams, year of tragedies. No matter how good or bad 2019 has been to you, it’s definitely been a year we can all look back on and say ‘yes, that was a year’. As we approach the end of 2019 it’s natural that we would all want to take stock on what we’ve learned, what...

Christmas is coming, and you know what that means? Days and days of awkward family interactions where you’d rather be playing games, but instead have to listen to your racist uncle parrot on and on about how things were better back in his day. Ah yes, what joys await us all in the coming weeks,...

Billing itself as the “gold standard” of transport simulation games, Urban Games’ Transport Fever 2 is fast approaching on the 11th of December for those of us partial to a bit of infrastructure management in this holiday season. If you’re a sucker for a good tram system, this game has you...

This year has been something of a belter when it comes to good games, and nowhere is that truer than when it comes to the independently developed efforts that chart among the best games of the last twelve months. So without further ado, here are the top indie games of 2019!  10....

Perchance you’ve been following our monthly column on getting into game design, a holistic approach for beginners to dip their toes into the mystical world of game development. In October, we touched on picking your first engine to start experimenting in, and during November we gave you some...

Tools Up! is a game all about working together to renovate houses. That sounds a lot like work to some people, but the aim of the game is to have fun, not actually do work. It’s not like they’re asking you to actually go and move furniture or do the painting in real life, because that would...

It’s hard to buy for a gamer. Most of the games they want they’ve probably already got, and there’s plenty of useless tat on the market to be bought and never used again by the lucky recipient. Most of their wishlist will be ridiculously expensive bits of hardware that aren’t suitable for...