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Like its protagonist, the returned soldier Lincoln Clay, Mafia III is a game stuck caught between two worlds. Lincoln wants to escape his past and leave his criminal roots but it pulled back in to a spiraling disaster of revenge and power-building, and Mafia III wants to be a heavily narrative game with a social … Read more

OUR INTERACTIONS WITH TRICO ARE BOTH STUNNING AND AWKWARD. ETA 9 DEV PUB SONY / DEV GENDESIGN/SONY JAPAN STUDIO After years of waiting, we’re finally let loose in PS4’s most enigmatic game There’s a certain sense of irony in The Last Guardian’s opening credits. As a camera pans across pages of an illustrated bestiary, beginning … Read more

DEVELOPER WEIRDBEARD GAMES PRICE TBA www.trickytowers.com Generally, I like my puzzle games to be on mobile devices so that I can use them to briefly forget that I’m travelling to work on the train, or sitting at the kids’ gymnastics lessons. Occasionally, I find myself settling in for the evening with a snack, slippers and … Read more

Dontnod’s first open-world game is more Dishonored than Dracula Among the things we disliked about our first glimpse of Vampyr, Dontnod’s tale of occult predation in wartime London, was its combat – a graceless third-person mishmash of three-hit combos and pistol exchanges, peppered with crowdcontrol spells and teleport dashes. It was a shaky advert for … Read more

After eight years working on LittleBigPlanet, Tarsier is exchanging dreams for nightmares Tarsier’s brightly coloured, playfully decorated premises are exactly what you’d expect the home of a studio that’s spent the past eight years working closely with Media Molecule, on its LittleBigPlanet series, to look like. A hotchpotch of lampshades and rugs, a familial collection … Read more

Chloe and Nadine are doing it for themselves in this story expansion Seeing an Uncharted game without Nathan Drake at the helm is like witnessing a Call Of Duty game without guns. It shouldn’t feel right. After all, his rakish style is a big part of what makes the whole series work. Turns out it … Read more

BY CHRIS TRUMBLE Longtime fans of survival horror videogames know that although there were one or two precursors, Resident Evil was the game that kicked off the popularity of SH games in earnest in 1996. Those same fans also probably know that for many years, alternating releases of Resident Evil games and Silent Hill titles … Read more

Talion sprints towards the walls of Seregost Castle, undaunted by the glittering volley of flaming arrows streaking towards him and his loyal Uruk army. Nearby, a deluge of crude orcish artillery lands, exploding into a fireball that blooms and dissipates, leaving only a shower of wet earth and green bodies tumbling in its wake. Talion … Read more

The legendary developer talks to us about his new outlook, as we take his gravity-defying shooter LawBreakers for a spin Cliff Bleszinski is as close to a game development rockstar as this industry has ever known. Like many of the great pop stars there have been nicknames, personas, and a sense of a creative evolution … Read more