Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is maybe one of my favourite games of this year—it's certainly in the running—which I hope reassures you that I mean this with all the love in the world. It surprises me not one itty-bitty bit that Guillaume Broche, creative director of the game, says he "likes really sad stories".That's per a recent interview Broche had with BehindTheVoice (seen below). Spoilers for the game's endings to...

It's hard to remember Creative Assembly wasn't always synonymous with the Total War series, and yet, once upon a time, they were so well-known for sports games that pivoting away was seen as a risk. That's part of the story told in a retrospective video about the making of Total War: Shogun put together to coincide with its 25th anniversary. It makes for a fascinating insight into how different things...

Get that Friday feeling in your daily puzzle gaming by treating yourself to an easy Wordle win. We won't tell anyone if you take a sneaky peek at the August 8 (1511) answer, promise. And if you want to browse today's hints and helpful clue at any time while you're here? We didn't see a thing. Wordle? What's that?A clue for today's WordleStuck on today's Wordle? Here's a clue that...

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER(Image credit: Future)This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it's bad.This time 15 years ago, I was a staunch Battlefield guy who had every Call of Duty rebuke memorized. My beloved Bad Company 2 was the better FPS because it had vehicles, 32-player lobbies, class roles, and maps that...

When I finished my first session of Nox Mortalis' astoundingly long and open-ended demo, I was convinced it had missed the mark: Too obtuse and unforgiving. Melee combat that was spotty at best, with an overreliance on an aggravating parry mechanic. I get not having a map, but no compass in this open world game?Turns out I'm just a dumbass. My second time giving Nox Mortalis the old college try,...

Six years after BioShock 4 was first confirmed, it is not going well: Bloomberg said last week that the game had failed a recent development review, leading to the removal of studio head Kelley Gilmore and shift of creative director Hogarth de la Plante to a publishing role, and a planned overhaul of parts of the game itself. Despite those struggles, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick promises, unequivocally, that it's not...

15 years after being shuttered by Activision, original Guitar Hero publisher RedOctane is back, with the slightly changed name of RedOctane Games and now a part of catastrophe conglomerate Embracer Group. The revived studio is being headed up by Simon Ebejer, the production director on numerous Guitar Hero games developed by Neversoft, and also has original RedOctane founder Charles and Kai Huang on board as advisors.The "small but passionate studio"...

Marathon's grand unveiling earlier this year did not, I suspect, go as Sony hoped. Gameplay reveals were met with overwhelmingly negative reaction. Then, a scandal over stolen art and a subsequent report of morale at the studio in "free fall". Finally, an indefinite delay, with a new release date to be announced in the autumn.All that would be troubling enough on its own, but crucially it came only a few...

Acer's not exactly a name that comes up often in the SSD sphere, is it? If I sat you down right now, brand-new shiny GM9000 PCIe 5.0 SSD in your hands, and asked you exactly who it was that held the lion's share of the storage market today, I suspect Acer probably wouldn't make the top 10 list now, would it? Nope. It's understandably more associated with mass-manufactured gaming laptops...

Anyone hoping for a Tekken Tag Tournament 3 as the genre's popularity ramps up once more is going to be disappointed, since Bandai Namco has unfortunately shredded any hope of it happening.I never got around to playing Tekken Tag Tournament until I picked up the second one a couple of years ago and had a fab time with it. It's an unbalanced mess full of silly quirks and questionable choices,...