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Forza Horizon 6 review: Same Festival, Perfect New Address

There's a particular kind of pressure that comes with a sequel everyone already knows they want. Forza Horizon 5 sold tens of millions of...

Mouse: P.I. for Hire Review: A Case Worth Taking

Warsaw's Fumi Games spent years building something that sounds like a novelty – a rubber hose-animated, black-and-white, 1930s-inspired first-person shooter – and then shipped...

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight review: TT Games finally made the Batman game Rocksteady never got to finish

There's a moment roughly three hours into LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight where the Joker blows up a Gotham museum while Prince's...

South of Midnight Switch 2 review: The Port Delivers the Magic, Mostly

When Compulsion Games released South of Midnight last year, it arrived as one of the most visually and tonally distinctive action-adventures in recent memory....

Saros Review: Pure Action Nirvana on PS5

Housemarque's Saros doesn't just follow Returnal – it transcends it. The Finnish studio has delivered what may be the defining PS5 exclusive of 2026,...

Tomodachi Life Living the Dream review: A Dadaist Digital Dollhouse

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a chaotic, creative life simulator that successfully brings Nintendo's bizarre magic to the Switch. The game modernizes the...

Crimson Desert review: Spectacular Tragedy of Excess

Crimson Desert is a monument to unchecked ambition and the seductive danger of scope creep. It is a game that looks at the last...

Kena: Bridge of Spirits on Switch 2 review: a Pixar-perfect adventure finds its true home

When Ember Lab first released Kena: Bridge of Spirits back in 2021, it felt like playing a lost blockbuster animation. It was a celebrated...

Shadow Tactics Switch 2 Review: The Ultimate Version of a Stealth Masterpiece

Almost a decade after it proved that the punishing, real-time stealth tactics genre was far from a relic of the past, Shadow Tactics: Blades...

God of War Sons of Sparta review: a pixel-perfect look at Kratos’ past

When Sony shadow-dropped God of War: Sons of Sparta during its February 2026 State of Play, it felt like an answer to a question...

Hotel Infinity review: walking in circles never felt so fun

There is a specific, recurring promise that virtual reality has made to us since the days of the Oculus Development Kit 1. It is...

Animal Crossing New Horizons on Switch 2 Review: The Resolution We Wanted, The Update We Didn’t Expect

When Nintendo announced the "final" major update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons back in 2021, we all accepted the island life was effectively over....

Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow on PSVR2 review: The Ultimate Kleptomaniac Simulator

For decades, the Thief franchise has been the hushed standard by which all other stealth games are measured. Since the late 90s, we have...

Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons Battlemarked review: D&D finally feels like home on PSVR2

The basement is warm, inviting, and smells faintly of digital nostalgia, which is a strange thing to say about a video game, but Demeo...

Ghost of Yōtei review: A Sequel That Nails PS5 Potential

Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Yōtei takes the foundational strengths of Ghost of Tsushima and subjects them to a meticulous process of refinement, resulting in...

The Outer Worlds 2 review: A Perfect 7/10

It’s strange to watch a game try so hard to be the smartest person in the room that it forgets to be a person...

Reus 2 review: A Cosmic Puzzle Box in the Palm of Your Hand

Reus 2 arrives on the Nintendo Switch not as a traditional god game, but as a delightfully intricate and surprisingly deep puzzle experience wrapped...

Yooka-Replaylee review: The Game We Were Promised All Along

Yooka-Replaylee is not just a second chance; it's the game we were promised all along. Pitched as a simple remaster, this release is instead...

Battlefield 6 review: back to big, loud, and brilliant

Battlefield didn’t just stumble with 2042; it cratered. No scoreboard, no direction, and no good answers for a community that had spent years building...

EA Sports FC 26 Review – It’s a Draw

Writing about FIFA – sorry, EA Sports FC – isn’t easy. Then again, neither is making it. We’ve danced this same dance too many...