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I’m standing atop a hill covered with leafy vegetation and gently swaying trees. Overlooking an enemy base, I send out my drone and organically recon the area, watching for enemy patrol routes and judging distances. Satisfied I’ve got them all figured out, I launch my sneaky assault, winding my way down to the base from my perch and expertly predicting enemy movements. One enemy remains after I’ve systematically dispatched my enemies and looted them. The chase is on. When it’s good, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is very good indeed. These moments – sneaking through bases, organically taking down enemies, and watching…

Rally driving is a terrifying prospect. For those of us who’ve never tried it or never been interested in trying it, watching the drivers career around bends that should by rights launch their cars into roadside ditches is a scary experience. Luckily, we’ve got video games to help us live that fantasy vicariously (because Lord knows you wouldn’t get most of us here into a rally car). Specifically, we’ve got the WRC series. This franchise goes right back to 2001’s World Rally Championship, created by Evolution Studios. The series has passed through three different developers since its inception; it took…

Gamescom 2019 is finally over, and we’ve had some time to sit and think about everything we saw. It’s been a few days since the show ended, and since its conclusion, we’ve been mulling over what we thought were the best bits. It was a pretty epic show this year, and many of the major video game companies had enviable showings. Still, crown winners we must. Here are the most impressive games we saw at Gamescom 2019. Marvel’s Avengers If you said to us “live-service version of The Avengers with loot and progression systems”, we’d have wondered if it could…

There’s a common perception that video games represent pure escapism. To a certain degree, that’s true; video games are able to create fantastical worlds and have players inhabit them in a way that simply isn’t possible for other media. Still, it’s not entirely right to say video games offer pure escapism. There are many games set in the real world; there are games that focus on actual historical events; there are games that purport to teach moral lessons. These games aren’t offering escapism per se. One of the ways in which video games incorporate realism into their structure is with…

With Google’s entry into the console gaming (well, sort of) ring now firmly established, it’s time to start speculating. There’s plenty we already know about Google Stadia – what games will launch for it, what its technical capabilities are, when it will launch (November, if you’re interested) – but we don’t know what the future looks like. Given the power and reach of Stadia, it’s not unreasonable to want games that push its technical limitations and show us what it can really do. Here are some of the games we want to see on Google Stadia. Dark Souls Trilogy As…

With E3 having come to a close for yet another year, we’ve taken a look back at some of the best titles that were shown off at this year’s expo. These are the titles we think look the most interesting, the most fun, and that stood out among the rest of the announcements! In no particular order, here are our top ten games shown off at E3 2019. Roller Champions Roller Derby meets Rocket League in this colourful sports title from Ubisoft! With simple gameplay and stylish mechanics, Roller Champions looks set to take the E-Sports scene by storm. The…

For many, Japanese RPGs represent an impenetrable phenomenon. There are, of course, plenty of accessible entry points into this most idiosyncratic of game styles, but many are put off by the very genre conventions others adore. JRPG opponents decry the occasionally wobbly dialogue and sometimes samey tropes these games employ. Proponents of the genre love the games’ huge scale, grand scope, and sense of daring, almost never executed with the arch raised eyebrow of Western RPGs. Many JRPG franchises have their fierce defenders, but there are few more long-running or storied than Gust’s Atelier franchise. These games have been going…

What’s the most dangerous job you can think of? Several should spring to mind if you’re of the same nervous disposition as many of us here. Some of them might seem a tad unconventional – logging work, construction, and truck driving can all be extremely dangerous vocations – but there are always the classic jobs like mountain guide and stuntman. Whichever one you’re thinking of, you’re probably thankful that your job doesn’t entail such risks (unless it does, of course). Experiencing jobs that could potentially harm or kill you is the premise of video games; that’s mostly what they’re there…

2019 is shaping up to be a pretty darn good year for gaming. We’ve had triumphs like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Devil May Cry 5 already, and it’s not hard to feel like the best is yet to come. Here are the 15 most exciting games arriving in 2019. Rage 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One – May 2019) The original Rage may have been little more than a showcase for id Software’s id Tech 5 engine, but damned if it doesn’t provide some of the most satisfying shooting action around. The sequel promises more of the same high-octane action…

The gaming industry has experienced a major evolution in the last few years. I have to mention that because some well known games and popular movies were parodied into adult games. As young children we all wanted to play games that were based on our favourite movies, but this transformation only took place in the least years. Games like Fallout: New Vegas, Tomb Raider, Call of Duty, Mafia II or Prison Break: The Conspiracy – are just a few examples, many more games were created after successful movies. Following this idea, adult games creators took initiative and began creating games…

Video Games with the Largest Skill Disparities The world of video gaming is full of thousands and thousands of different games,hundreds of different genres and endless hours of fun and enjoyment. One of the main joys of video gaming is that you have so many different types of video games to choose from. Video games transport you to alternate realities – you can play Red Dead Redemption and become a cowboy or you can put yourself into the world of Dota 2 and play as an alien or a demon. Video games allow you to travel to distant galaxies, you…

You may be scared of the amount of money you spend on gaming. Steam has gotmany games that you can download for free. The games are exciting to play andkeep you engaged for an extended period. This article highlights the top 8 best free steam games that you can download incase you do not have enough money to spend on your gaming habit. Warface: Blackout This game is from Crytek Kiev that has been able to gather small FPS that isinteresting just as other entries in the bullet-ridden genre. It offers fourclasses that include gear, attachments, with a weapon and…

Fun fact: the first real-time strategy (RTS) game is argued by many to be 1989’s Herzog Zwei, and it’s a console game. Anyone who says that RTS games belong entirely on PC can and should be swayed by this fact, because Herzog Zwei is the progenitor of what we know as real-time strategy today. Since then, seminal titles like Warcraft, Starcraft and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War have further refined the formula, and today the genre is hale and hearty. With RTS games doing a roaring trade and showing no signs of slowing any time soon, we thought now was…

Turn-based combat is a tricky beast. Get it right and you’ve got something like XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a thrilling, tense battle of strategy and wits between two evenly-matched enemies. Get it wrong, though, and you’ve got a player staring catatonically at the TV, mashing buttons until combat automatically resolves itself. It’s a delicate balancing act for sure, and one that the folks at YYT Games looked to overcome with the Fallen Legion titles. Fallen Legion: Rise to Glory offers both Fallen Legion titles in a single package, which makes this a pretty perfect time to go back and see how…

Japan has a long and storied history in the video game industry. Although the first video games didn’t come from Japan (Tennis for Two was designed and built in New York), it was Japanese companies who refined and perfected the video game art form throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Classic consoles like the NES, Sega Genesis and PlayStation are all Japanese creations, as are many video game household names like Mario, Sonic and Link. That said, the Japanese have never been huge on PC gaming, which has traditionally been a Western discipline. Real-time strategy games, first-person shooters and MMORPGs have…

Sometimes there’s just no beating the classics. New games may shock and astound us with increasingly fancy graphics and features, but there’s a simple pleasure in revisiting the games of yesteryear, in going back to a simpler time before online multiplayer and loot box controversies. Of course, the optimal way to do this is to dust off your old PS2 in the attic and hook it up to the ancient CRT TV you’ve still got stashed away in the spare bedroom. There’s nothing quite like experiencing Metal Gear Solid 3 on its original hardware. Of course, there are many reasons…

Studies have suggested that human beings need other human beings around them in order to function properly. We are social animals, after all, and being lonely for lengthy periods of time has been linked to health complications and psychological problems. Put simply, we just need others to make our lives better. The presence of other human beings helps us get through life’s tough times, and they’re there for the good parts, too. There’s no reason why gaming should be any different. Sure, single-player games are great, but for our money, there’s no beating a well-made MMO. Being surrounded by other…

Nostalgia is a funny thing, isn’t it? We love revisiting our past, reliving the experiences that made us who we are and that we still regard with fondness many years later. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in our media; I’d wager you, like me, have games you should rightly be ashamed of loving but will defend to the hilt anyway (Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest, step right this way). This, of course, is where the remaster comes in. Remastering games is a wonderful way of preserving the nostalgic feeling our favourite games give us, while papering over some of the…

Some things are obvious picks for adaptations. Reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s opus The Lord of the Rings yields nothing but cinematic images and imagined sweeping shots across Middle-Earth vistas, while JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series is almost inextricable from its movie counterparts. The same is true of video games; one can hardly imagine the Batman universe and divorce it from the common childhood fantasy of wanting to be said Caped Crusader, so Batman videogames are pretty much a given. With that said, perhaps it’s time to turn our attentions to the lesser-appreciated pantheon of video game adaptations in waiting. Batman, Lord…

There are thousands of video game records out there to set. For example, some of the simplest ones have little to do with skill. “Lil Poison” aka Victor De Leon III became the youngest professional gamer in history at age four. Then Shirley Curry became the oldest YouTube Gamer with a fanbase at age 81! Those are the simpler ones, and it’s likely you won’t beat them just yet. Others that you won’t soon beat involve so much time, you’d have to be a kid on summer break to beat them. Who has time to set off over 3,000,000 Minecraft…

Tycoon games are one of the oldest genres in gaming. If you’re anything like us (and are of a certain age or older), some of your earliest and fondest memories of gaming will have come from tycoon games; they were very much a gateway into gaming, throughout the 90s and early 2000s. We led amusement parks to utter disaster in Theme Park World and RollerCoaster Tycoon. Scores of poor patients died on our watch in Theme Hospital. Hordes of innocent creatures were neglected in Zoo Tycoon. But you know what… we had fun trying (and failing) to run these complex…

South Park has a long history of irreverence, and its wholesale approach to laughing at modern day’s silliness has gathered it a large following over the years. It was no surprise, then, that when Obsidian made The Stick of Truth the game became an instant hit, capturing the style and atmosphere of the show and letting it take on classic fantasy and RPG tropes. The sequel was long in the making, with multiple delays along the way, but it’s finally coming to us this month, under a different developer (Ubisoft San Francisco) and the same viciously funny direction from Trey…

Virtual Reality (VR) is a game changer that has been gearing up to lead in every other industry. From real estate to technology, no industry is left out, and now with games is going to a next level; VR in games is a norm. Discount codes and deals for Xbox on the games like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive PlayStation. VR all are available in the UK and other countries giving opportunities to gamers to get close to the action. We bring you the list of some amazing high-octane VR games that you can buy on amazing deals from Bydiscountcodes: Fallout…

Total War: Warhammer is arguably the most successful of Creative Assembly’s long-running franchise. The marriage of classic TW gameplay and Warhammer Fantasy setting seemed like an obvious choice. The thing is, it doesn’t exactly escape what we’d expect from a strategy games, most factions seem pretty standard fare, all things considered. We’ve played as humans, elves, or dwarves many times in the past. This is lucky, then, that Creative Assembly brought something relatively fresh to the mix for both the first Total War: Warhammer and its upcoming sequel. Let’s figure out what’s the deal is with factions other than the…

Real Time Strategy, more frequently referred to as RTS, games are titles where the player’s job is to build, gather and develop their resources in a simulation which can take place in various settings. However, the big bonus is that these settings can be both realistic or fantasy, take place anywhere and even go back in time! This provides gamers with a diverse range of play, and there’s a big demand for RTS games. With so many excellent titles out there in this niche it’s hard to narrow the choice down to just a few, but there are some which…

High quality weather effects are the icing on the cake when it comes to a compelling experience. For years’ weather has been integral to gameplay, as monsters come out at nightfall, in harsh rains and misty landscapes! All the way back to N64’s Zelda Ocarina of Time, you knew you were in trouble if you were stuck in the fields at night. Below we take a look at 5 games with amazing weather effects that will draw you in to the gaming experience. Dying Light  One of the best games in recent memory to cultivate a convincing weather cycle was…

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… No, it’s just a bird after all. Sorry about the false alarm. But with so many superheroes crawling, running, flying, and generally crashing through our universe, it is an easy mistake to make. There are only so many super powers. Let’s see… super strength, super speed, producing spider webs, wait… what? When did producing spider webs become a power that anyone even wanted? The point being, there are only so many super powers. But they are paired with our endless appetite to experience them. There was a time when superheroes were just an…

In recent years, the alien invasion film has been pushing at the studios imposed limitations on the genre. Defying expectation guerilla productions like Gareth Edward’s Monsters, Neil Blomkamp’s District 9 and Matt Reeves Cloverfield ration the fantasy elements replacing them with something uniquely satisfying in the form of genuine feeling. Continuing the trend, there is much to admire in the low budget British sci-fi /comedy; Attack the Block. Wisely Produced by Edgar Wright, (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) and directed with disarming aloofness by writer (Spielberg’s Tintin) and sometimes actor (Hot Fuzz) Joe Cornish, Attack the Block is a…

Military strategy games might be in shortly supply, but there are still many gems to be informed about. This article takes a look at the top 10 military strategy games currently available.

Players often use arcade sticks for fighting games to gain more accuracy and people find, on a technical level, that they better to use than a regular controller. Sometimes people like it just because it reminds them of old-school gaming from their youths or just to try to mix it up. But mostly the choice of using an arcade stick or a pad comes down to preference. The arcade stick has been around forever in the gaming industry, so a lot of players find it a natural way to game, even if they also use regular pads. But if you’ve…

Set in a dark and ominous fantasy version of the Sengoku period in the 1600s, Nioh is a vibrant, gory and deeply intense action role-play game centered around the English samurai character, William Adams, who is hunting down his antagonist and fellow historical figure, occultist Edward Kelley. Williams Adams is based on a real-life samurai who was the first of his nation to land in Japan alongside his second mate Jan Joosten. Though William appears to lack developmental depth as a character, the supporting network of characters within Nioh’s dark fantasy world certainly make up for this lack. Throughout the…