THQ Nordic

Ah, good old Eurojank. They’re a curious thing, those games that are unwieldy, unpolished, even slightly broken, yet fascinating in the depth of their systems and creative ideas they entertain. Nobody does Eurojank quite like Piranha Bytes—after all, the pretty much invented the style with Gothic. The studio has come …

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was one of the first games I ever got a platinum trophy for. I’ve never been much of a trophy hunter, but when this dropped in 2012, something about it just grabbed hold of me and made me want to see and do everything there is …

I often found myself markedly impressed at the scale of Biomutant. It is a game developed chiefly by a mere 20 developers, some of whom are alumni of Avalanche Studios, the team behind the Just Cause franchise. Yet despite the relatively small development team, the world they have created is …