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A Little To The Left

Ah, the cat's got into this puzzler

Host with the ghost

Surviving inside Celeste's hotel is tricky enough; try escaping with an enraged spectral manager in pursuit

Bound by fate

Ys X: Nordics to get an English-language release this autumn

Helldivers 2

This is an urgent communication from High Command

Pentiment

Peep out the manuscript, you'll see that it's a must

Alone In The Dark

Needs more bright ideas

Morbid: The Lords Of Ire

Slash-happy soulslike loves slicing red bits out of bodies

WWE 2K24

Rock solid, yet wrestling itself into an annual headache

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Call it a homecoming

X BOX ON PS5

Exclusive no more. Xbox first-party games are making the jump to PlayStation. But what does that mean for theseconsole competitors, and the industry at large?

"Reduced offerings and a price hike make PS Plus essential a hard sell."

Ironically feeling less essential than ever, PS Plus is losing its appeal

"Jak II proves Naughty Dog doesn't need realism to make great characters."

Jak is every bit as real as later Naughty Dog protagonists

Little Goody Two Shoes

Finding evil by moonlight, winning games by daylight

PERSONA 3 RELOAD

High school never ends

TEKKEN 8

Bandai Namco is definitely Tekken things seriously

Thirsty Suitors

RPG fan? Consider yourself quenched

PAW PATROL

The strange Dog's Life is unforgettable for many - Andrew Gillett tells Lex Luddy just what was going on with Frontier's bizarre platformer

LIKE A DRAGON: INFINITE WEALTH

Yakuza gets a beach episode

SAGA EMERALD BEYOND

Going beyonds worlds and the timeline

THE THAUMATURGE

Sick of games being happy and fun? We have great news!

Growing a backbone

Nekki's Dmitry Pimenov on how you're being empowered in cyberpunk superhero beat-'em-up Spine

Once more, with 4K

The Last Of Us Part II will finally make its PS5 debut

The Invincible

The planet Regis III is one of the most gorgeous videogame locations of the year. Its lush orange deserts look hand-painted, its starry skyboxes truly justify the word awesome, and the [SPOILER REDACTED] you discover there are truly, thrillingly alien. What an unmitigated triumph of art design and direction! Shame about the game.

CROW COUNTRY

You'd have to be bird-brained to miss this one

DRAGON'S DOGMA 2

Because wyvern not?

THE ALTERS

Your own worst enemy

RoboCop: Rogue City

Did they fix everything?

Jumping into the PlayStation Portal

Sony's new Remote Play handheld is built of the right stuff, but is the idea sound?

Critical success

Baldur's Gate 3 sweeps Golden Joysticks, earning an armful of glittering awards

Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name

Where the Dragon Of Dojima isn't the Dragon Of Dojima