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Gordon Freeman remains Half-Life’s unsolved mystery
At the heart of Half-Life, there is a battle of credentials. Who’s more mysterious? There’s the G-Man, who’s cut from the same pop-culture cloth…
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Red Dead Redemption 2 dances to Ocarina of Time’s 20-year-old tune
On this day, 20 years ago, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released in Japan. Its arrival is the closest players have…
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Spyro Reignited Trilogy has inflamed the obsessive collector in me
It’s a shame that Spyro, being a dragon, is covered in sleek scales. One of the joys of the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy…
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My holiday with Hitman 2
A pen. A mug. A days-old Tracker bar wrapper. A blue Power Ranger figurine. After a weekend spent playing Hitman 2, I’ve come to…
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Five games I want to see do a Diablo Immortal
Blizzard announced Diablo Immortal at BlizzCon 2018, and some fans weren’t happy. Some reactions to the news was akin to kids at Christmas whose…
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All I wanted was a bath in Red Dead Redemption 2
My schedule for the weekend looked – or would have looked, were I the sort that kept schedules at weekends – like Tetris. A…
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Game Box Art Critique November: Fallout 76, Hitman 2, Darksiders 3
Each Month, we invite élite art critic Braithwaite Merriweather to appraise the box art of the latest game releases. In between his time spent…
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Red Dead Redemption 2’s opening feels like Stockholm Syndrome
And so, like a diamond, arrives Red Dead Redemption 2. Not just for its rarity (arriving eight years after the original, and five since…
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Unsung horror gems to play this Halloween
The season is almost upon us, and you’ve nothing to fear. Unlike the cramp of Christmas, which shuts you in with dreaded relatives, or…
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The scariest Halloween games you think aren’t actually scary
October, for the fretful, is a minefield of a month. The only one on the calendar – depending on how you feel about bunnies,…