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Developer Supermassive Games is back with the eagerly anticipated second installation of The Dark Pictures Anthology, Little Hope. Some years ago, my closest friends and I made the decision to play through Until Dawn as a group. Despite Until Dawn being a single-player game, we all felt that the opportunity to engage (and have the life scared out...

Electronic Arts hasn’t had the best track record with the Star Wars license, although recent years have seen the franchise experience a resurgence of sorts with Respawn Entertainment’s Jedi: Fallen Order and the long-awaited comeback of Battlefront 2, both of which were (largely) well received by die-hard fans.  Now, the publisher is pushing...

Amnesia: Rebirth is a first-person survival horror experience from Frictional Games that shows what humanity is capable of when the last embers of hope have been snuffed out.  The Dark Descent was a landmark horror title when it launched in 2010, launching the careers of internet megastars while showing that the genre could be far more than a...

Nintendo is finally running out of Wii U exclusives than can be ported to Nintendo Switch, unless they really want to resort to underwhelming stinkers like Devil’s Third and Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival.  But Pikmin 3 is a delightful strategy adventure well worth a second chance on a more popular platform, since millions of players likely...

After the astounding popularity of Crash Bandicoot: N.Sane Trilogy, it was only a matter of time until Activision realised that faithful remasters which paid homage to the past wasn’t the only option for its beloved orange marsupial.  He’s proven more popular than ever, forcing us to ask the question whether it was time for some new blood to...

Another year, another iteration of FIFA. And, once again, FIFA 21 feels very much like a minor update on its predecessor. Even more so than previously, this feels like a title that could have followed in the footsteps of PES 2021 and opted for a smaller, less substantial update for a lower price.  But that isn’t the style of Electronic Arts,...