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Sadness Remastered | The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC is not only a great port, but the perfect treat for TV series lovers hankering for Season 2

An upgraded version of a cinematic classic hampered by a few technical faults, this is the perfect appetiser for anyone salivating over HBO's next TV hit.

April 3, 2025 Connor Makar

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SWITCH 2 | Nintendo Switch 2 first hands-on: more of the same is pretty brilliant when you're following up one of the best consoles of all time

The Switch 2 is less that difficult second album and more like that triumphant extended edition victory lap.

April 3, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Fairy ‘Nuff | I wasn’t sold on the Switch 2, but then Nintendo promised me a remaster of a game I’ve been hankering to play again for over 10 years

A brave decision for a remake, now I’m defaulting to a Day One purchase.

April 2, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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Net A Good One | The best Netflix games to play in 2025

All of these essential games are included as part of your Netflix subscription, and they're all great.

April 2, 2025 James Billcliffe

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DIY | Sometimes you've got to Do It Yourself - a look inside the punk-themed fighting game event crashing through New York city

We speak to the minds behind DIY, an event coming this Brooklyn that brings some Punk flair to Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, and City of the Wolves.

April 1, 2025 Connor Makar

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Expect A Payday | Unlike GTFO, Den of Wolves will have both microtransactions and DLC, but that doesn’t mean 10 Chambers is going to put any "manipulative stuff" into its next game

With a growing studio to look after, 10 Chambers is reappraising its approach to monetization. But don’t worry, the dev knows you will ‘vote with your wallet’.

April 1, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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The Fuzz | The Precinct is a game that finally captures that classic cinematic cop experience, if classic cop movies were obsessed with due process and paperwork

From a birds eye view, take down crime one parking ticket at a time.

April 1, 2025 Connor Makar

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Hope Harder | Joy, Rage, Collaboration, Uncertainty, and Optimism: the state of the video game industry from GDC 2025

In 2025, it feels like the intention is to force the powers that be to build something better.

March 31, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Keep Your Secrets | My favourite thing about Doom: The Dark Ages so far? Its open areas tell you when there’s a "point of no return"

Completionists and 100% sickos take note, Doom: The Dark Ages is looking out for your compulsive interests.

March 31, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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En Guard | It turns out the only thing the nu-Doom formula needed to draw me back in is a crunchy, satisfying parry system, and Doom: The Dark Ages has absolutely nailed it

Doom: TDA knows that a single-player-only game with the largest and "most complete" campaign experience in the series needed a killer hook.

March 31, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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Fuse-alicious | "We wanted to create new ways to experience the game" 2XKO game designer manager breaks down the big changes coming in Alpha Lab 2

Clockwork sits down with us for an exclusive interview about the two new Fuses, wider gameplay adjustments, and whether he's the best MvC player on the team.

March 28, 2025 Connor Makar

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Piling Up | Wreckfest 2 early access is as stripped back as its bumperless bangers, but at least Bugbear’s bashing together a good chassis

There’s no music and you’ll be racing against the well-honed skills of BOT 29, but the carnage is the thing - and it’s pretty satisfying.

March 25, 2025 Mark Warren

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Shoot for the stars | 12 years (and 2000 hours) later, Warframe remains an MMO like no other

2,000 hours and still no Despair drop, by the way - even after the drop rate boost.

March 25, 2025 Connor Makar

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On the Periphery | Periphery and Warframe 1999 come together with a new guest track, but how on earth did that happen?

We speak to the crew behind the latest music collaboration to find out what went into the new track: Lamenting the days

March 21, 2025 Connor Makar

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New Look | "We'd be remiss to not act on that" Positive feedback on Warframe 1999 protoframes has the team thinking of the future.

Speaking with head of community director & live ops Megan Everett, the love of protoframes is a "testament to being risky and getting weird with it"

March 19, 2025 Connor Makar

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Rising Tide | Anyone mourning the poignant, meaningful feeling from Team Ico needs to check out Flow, the Oscar-winning film that beat Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot

"We are all in the same boat and must overcome our differences to find ways to work together" feels very apt in 2025.

March 19, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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Disco-very | Hopetown's devs accept that Disco Elysium’s shadow looms over them, but say the "seed of an idea" for a spiritual successor has evolved into "something different"

"We put it out there, judge it for what you will."

March 17, 2025 Mark Warren

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Temple of the mind | Want to know how Warframe got its own bizarre Sci-Fi David Bowie? Here's how Temple came to be, from a sketch to your Sortie

"This one in particular was one of the most self-indulgent, coolest set of things I could put into a Warframe"

March 10, 2025 Connor Makar

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Build-A-Battlefield | I’ve watched enough leaked Battlefield Labs gameplay to convince me that Battlefield is finally getting this one fundamental thing right, at least

DICE and all the other teams currently working on the next Battlefield are, finally, building on what came before.

March 10, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Switch Your Blades | Monster Hunter Wilds is not very challenging, but that means it pushed me to try weapons I normally would be scared of - and I think that's beautiful

Monster Hunter Wilds’ lower general difficulty lead me down a path of much wider weapon variety, and that is a silver lining on a pretty big cloud.

March 10, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Load of Balls | PGA Tour 2K25 is the best golf game in a decade, ruined by dirty tricks and greedy nonsense

A swing... and a miss.

March 7, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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In Utero | What do you get when you mix Beavis and Butthead, Daria, and Bojack Horseman? It turns out, it's an MTV-style rock-band management sim called Rockbeasts

Reminisce over the 90s and try not to go off the rails in a world of excess and hedonism in Rockbeasts, from Team17.

March 7, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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Overkill | Monster Hunter Wilds' easy difficulty may be good for on-boarding new players, but it raises a fundamental problem with the endgame

I and others are now farming out Tier 8 armour and weapons, but without G-rank hunts. Or anything tasty to fight. Why?

March 7, 2025 Connor Makar

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Red Phone Boxing | Atomfall hands-on: Forget Fallout, sneaking into the shed of a bloke called Alf to nick cornish pasties is a bit more rough and ready

Rebellion’s slice of post-apocalyptic Blighty is more our Rob than RobCo.

March 7, 2025 Mark Warren

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Kart Eyes Emoji | Lego Mario Kart captures the magic of Mario way better than the rest of his brick-built adventures so far

Mario Kart translates well to Lego, and it's nice to see how successful these sets have been.

March 6, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Valid Date Action | Date Everything isn't just a dating sim that lets you court your own existential dread, it's also a great example of how to deal with sensitive topics - preview

Date Everything lets you get to know all of your household objects on a very personal level.

March 6, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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Shard to Kill | How Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse inspired the unique look, and gameplay, of shattered universe sci-fi FPS, Fragpunk

What started as a streak of colour on a broken phone screen grew into a sprawling multiverse of characters, comics and animation.

March 5, 2025 James Billcliffe

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Gimmie the EDW | Monster Hunter Wilds' story may be mid, but it's also a great pay-off to one of the series' oldest mysteries

Now that we're in the ruins of the ancient civilization, there's one monster that appears to harken back to old lore.

March 5, 2025 Connor Makar

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Arquebustin’ A Cap. | Becoming Avowed’s most toxic 360 no-scoper isn't a walk in the weird mushroom park, but for me, it was just a Sunday

"Marius, fetch the adra-powered photographic contraption!" - XxAedyranEnvoy420xX

March 4, 2025 Mark Warren

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Fantastic | If Absolum, from the devs behind Streets of Rage 4, is a sign of where beat-’em-ups are headed, I’m excited for the future of the genre

I got hands on time with Dotemu’s and Guard Crush Games' next beat-’em-up, and as far as first impressions go, this one’s a scorcher.

March 4, 2025 Connor Makar

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One Shot Kills | Monster Hunter Wilds players who can't figure out the Jin Dahaad fight make me want to smash my head into a wall, or maybe I'm just being elitist?

Jin Dahaad is cool, but fighting it with other players was my first real frustrating moment with an otherwise chill game.

March 4, 2025 Connor Makar

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Zorah Magnified | I know complaining about the campaign in Monster Hunter is silly, but I can’t get over how much of a downgrade Wild’s campaign is compared to World’s

Before you give me crap for arguing the merits of one Monster Hunter feature hardly anyone is going to care about after the first week, I need to make a case about Wild’s nothing-campaign.

March 1, 2025 Sherif Saed

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A split-screen view envisions the same Sims 4 townhouse as two different home businesses: a pastel-coloured sweetshop on the left, and a chic art gallery on the right.

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Multi-Buy | The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies is built around a much-needed (but controversial) feature

More and better interactivity between expansion packs needs to be the future of The Sims, but not if the price is interdependence.

Feb. 28, 2025 Rebecca Jones

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Movie Tycoon | The Executive showed me that making sequels to a low-budget horror flick was a terrible idea and that audiences craved a Bicentennial Man rip-off

But I wanted to create a horror franchise no matter what.

Feb. 28, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Make it Big | Thank you, Monster Hunter Wilds, for understanding that not everyone playing on PC is sitting at a desk

Monster Hunter Wild offers players on PC one of the most considerate options during its setup.

Feb. 28, 2025 Sherif Saed

The protagonist and several major characters from The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy square off against an unseen enemy, with the little Wishlisted doot in winter form looking on from the bottom right-hand corner.

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Military School | The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy isn't Danganronpa 4, but it's happy to revisit some fan-favourite tropes

Too Kyo is also gonna troll you a bit for hoping it would straight-up be Danganronpa 4 because, you know, that's how they roll.

Feb. 27, 2025 Rebecca Jones

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Cooler Hunts | Monster Hunter Wilds has a clever option on PC that’s definitely there to stop you from rage quitting

Monster Hunter Wilds has a single setting that I guarantee you will cut down on rage quitting instances by at least 70%, and you can quote me on that.

Feb. 27, 2025 Sherif Saed

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Meching Me Crazy | Mecha Break is the best PvP game I've played in ages, and a must-play during the Steam Next Fest

Like, I'm sitting here flabbergasted. Straight up confuddled.

Feb. 26, 2025 Connor Makar

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Drift King | Why did Blizzard bring "hectic and chaotic" drifting in custom cars to World of Warcraft? I don’t know, but it’s the game’s most fun feature in years

In World of Warcraft's big update - Undermine(d) - expect a lot of fast cars and disastrous wipeouts.

Feb. 26, 2025 Connor Makar

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Tumult-iverse | Fragpunk is like every shooter, everywhere, all at once - and could be Netease's next Marvel Rivals (if the dev plays its cards right)

Competitive FPS, Fragpunk, revolves around the central mechanic of Shard Cards, which change the rules of every round.

Feb. 26, 2025 James Billcliffe

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Fares Fair | Inside Hazelight at the climax of Split Fiction’s development, you can see how the seeds of a Game of the Year are sown

"The games industry shouldn’t be only about the money," says Josef Fares, drawing a line in the sand regarding how his studio approaches making games.

Feb. 25, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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Demo Derby | "For indies, we have to do this" Here’s what Promise Mascot Agency’s devs are hoping Steam Next Fest will do for a game that sort-of defies explanation

"These days, there's what? 14k or 15k demos in there? So, it's absolutely wild."

Feb. 25, 2025 Mark Warren

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Ice And Fire | Eternal Strands is a great reminder that creative tools and reactiveness in big open-world sandboxes trump content bloat

The sort of intrepid game design you don't see much of anymore.

Feb. 22, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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The Final Step-tims | "It's modding on steroids" Skyblivion project lead talks progress towards a 2025 release, those official Oblivion remake rumours, and if Fallout: London offers any lessons

The massive Skyrim mod that'll offer a revamped take on The Elder Scrolls 4 being "nearly in a releasable state is a miracle", says its lead dev.

Feb. 21, 2025 Mark Warren

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Can We Fix It? | RoadCraft is Snowrunner meets everything that makes Bob the Builder’s crane arm extend, and it’s in the latest Steam Next Fest

Look, it lets you make big tarmac pancakes with a steamroller, what more could you want?

Feb. 19, 2025 Mark Warren

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Old Lessons | Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered completes a trip down memory lane that remains unwelcoming despite its historical value

We must understand the past to prepare for the future.

Feb. 16, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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Promises Kept | As Promise Mascot Agency nears the end of its costumed run through the explosions of development, its devs are feeling good about handing their "band of freaks" over to you

"We've made the game we want to make."

Feb. 15, 2025 Mark Warren

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Purple | Blade and Soul NEO will not be launching on Steam, will be sticking to NCSoft's own platform Purple

How big of an impact will this decision have on new player engagement? Time will tell!

Feb. 13, 2025 Connor Makar

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Second Trilogy | Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered happened because "it just didn't feel right" to do 4 and push the other entries aside, Aspyr says

It was a chance to make things right.

Feb. 12, 2025 Fran Ruiz

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It Burns, Burns | Elden Ring Nightreign is blisteringly, stress-inducingly fast-paced, and more thrilling than I could have imagined - hands-on preview

Elden Ring Nightreign diverges from Souls far more than I expected - but also translates the genre’s trademark masochism to fast-paced co-op PVE perfectly.

Feb. 12, 2025 Alex Donaldson

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