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The Dark Queen Of Mortholme review

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Published: August 21, 2025 16:06

There's a beautiful, wordless moment about ten minutes in to The Dark Queen Of Mortholme. As the titular queen, you've just casually mace-flattened the same plucky interloper for the Nth time, then snapped their corpse out of existence in a wreath of…

Herdling review

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Published: August 21, 2025 15:57

Switzerland-based Okomotive are here to escape from dystopia once again. In their previous Far: Lone Sails and its sequel, you played a child operating a cutaway landship that often resembled a rampaging beast - the last surviving specimen of a race of…

Mafia: The Old Country review

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Published: August 11, 2025 16:01

The motor carriage noisily trundles down a dirt track in the Sicilian countryside. It’s a beautiful evening or morning. I’ve lost track of which, and I’m too busy thinking to double check whether the pale sun overhead is rising or retreating. How strange…

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 review: Starting, and finishing, at the bottom

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Published: July 30, 2025 15:27

There was a time when I’d be chuffed to bits to be clicking a new entry-level graphics card into its PCIe home. Think back to the GTX 1050 Ti or the Radeon RX 570 – these weren’t just great GPUs because they were accessible, but because you could…

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound review

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Published: July 30, 2025 15:02

In the realm of pixel artistry, action platformer Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound is a pretty work of dither and parallax. It's full of set pieces reminiscent of a misremembered arcade's heyday. Between the more standard run 'n' chop levels, there are jetski…

Killing Floor 3 review

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Published: July 29, 2025 12:20

Killing Floor 3 has an excellent headshot. It’s the kind of frisson-inducing gun/baddie interaction that most FPS games strive for and fail: somehow crisp and explosive at once, like popping a balloon full of wedding china. There’s a deliciously tangible…

S.p.l.i.t review

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Published: July 24, 2025 14:01

You don't use the mouse in S.p.l.i.t, but you won't miss it. Games are sometimes described as 'clunky', but what's more satisfying than good clunk? Each key clank here hits like a heart thud. Axel and two associates are scrambling for root access to launch…

Wheel World review

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Published: July 23, 2025 16:00

For a low-stakes open world cycling game, Wheel World has a lot of lore. You wake up in the forest and discover a spirit called Skully, a ghost who offers the player a rusty bike and immediately ejects so much fantasy jargon and frontloaded backstory that…

Hell Clock review

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Published: July 21, 2025 15:00

There are lots of games in the same way there are lots of crisps. Many of those games are good, in the same way that many crisps are shaped a bit like Jesus. But even a crisp shaped like Jesus ceases to delight after you've seen a few. Great, you think.…

The Drifter review

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Published: July 17, 2025 14:00

The Drifter is sometimes quite silly in ways I don't think are intentional, and it managed to yank me right out of the experience more than once. You obviously have to be in a thing to get yanked out of it though, which is my way of saying that The Drifter…