Torment: Tides of Numenera carefully balances brilliant storytelling with meaningful player choice, creating a role-playing experience unlike any other. I was a good 10 hours into Torment: Tides of Numenera before I had my first violent encounter, and I love it for that. Even with the resurgence of adventure games …
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We’ve got a copy of Torment: Tides of Numenera for PlayStation 4 to give away, thanks to Techland and GDE Distribution. Torment: Tides of Numenera is a spiritual sequel to the acclaimed computer RPG Planescape: Torment, which first came out almost 20 years ago in 1999. It’s the product of a passionate development …
Nier: Automata is one of the best games you’ll ever play, combining PlatinumGames action expertise with the mad genius of Yoko Taro. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is one of the best, most important books ever written. Not just because it gave birth to the science fiction and horror genres, but …
Horizon Zero Dawn is a remarkable achievement in world-building, but it undermines that with a weak story and too much open-world bloat. If you want to get the most out of Horizon Zero Dawn, my advice is to avoid all main story content as long as possible. Just take every …
Horizon Zero Dawn is almost upon us. It was a surprising announcement at E3 2015; a lush, beautiful open-world RPG from a studio who’d made nothing but gritty first-person shooters for the past ten years. True to big-budget marketing form, we’ve been kept on a steady stream of information to …
Like every other Kingdom Hearts fan, I’ve been desperately waiting for Kingdom Hearts III. Like every other Kingdom Hearts fan, my heart sank when Square Enix used Tokyo Game Show 2015 not to reveal more information about Kingdom Hearts III, but to announce another stopgap: the awkwardly-named Kingdom Hearts HD …
We’ve got a copy of Sniper Elite 4 to give away on PlayStation 4, thanks to Rebellion Developments and GDE Distribution. Sniper Elite 4 is one of the best stealth games I’ve played in a long time, with huge, detailed levels and plenty of freedom to improvise and get creative with your approach. …
Sniper Elite is my guilty pleasure. I know, conventional wisdom says there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure – “like what you like, without guilt”. There’s an element of truth in that, but it’s a more complicated issue and one that’s worth unpacking. Sniper Elite 3 was a game …
It’s been a long time since I’ve really enjoyed a Tales game. There was a time when it was one of it favorite series’, but the last one that really hooked me was Tales of Eternia on PSP – and even that was a re-release of a much older game. …
When it first came out, Gravity Rush was one of the most original, unique takes on the action-adventure game. In a genre so bloated, it takes something special to stand out, and Gravity Rush had that in spades, with its clever gravity shifting mechanic and beautiful world. There hasn’t been …