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MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ review - superlative playing power with familiar Windows handheld caveats

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Published: October 21, 2026 08:40

Welcome to my review of the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, a handheld PC that went on sale four months ago. And if you think that’s bad, tell it to the 2025-spec Lenovo Legion Go 2 I’ve left, neglected and unappraised, in the dusty heights of my utility cupboard. …

Penguin Colony review - the least expected Soulslike you'll play, and a cracking parody of Lovecraftian empires

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Published: October 16, 2026 15:15

Penguin Colony is probably the best pisstake of Lovecraft and Lovecraftian horror I've played. It's the best because it places Lovecraft's universe at a creaturely remove, amplifying its absurdity without having to drop any punchlines. Entering a ravaged…

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse review - a fantastic action game, a less than stellar Metroidvania

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Published: October 13, 2026 10:03

Rose Belmont is not her father. Rose is something new: the next generation of the legendary vampire hunters spending her life trying to step out of Trevor's shadow, to be seen as the self-reliant woman she is. Any monster that faces her is surprised to see…

Valor Mortis review - this Napoleonic first-person swordfighter is one of the freshest Soulslikes in years

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Published: October 12, 2026 13:00

Well, I say "freshest." In its ickily up-close vision of Napoleonic battlefields, swapping the boring old bubonic plague for a fleshy, pustulating necro-blight, Valor Mortis is as horrid and grim as a standard Soulslike rulebook would compel. At the same…

Star Wars Galactic Racer review: now this is frenetically fun podracing with a totally unforgiving streak

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Published: October 6, 2026 14:00

Becoming a boost junkie in arcade racers that offer such potent bursts of extra oomph is usually only a matter of time. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is no different. The hooks have been in deep. The vast majority of the builds I’ve pulled together in runs…

Nighthawks review – a series of vignettes that sometimes excel but more often falter

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Published: September 22, 2026 08:33

Nighthawks, the 1942 painting by Edward Hopper, is generally described as portraying loneliness. The four people at the diner counter are dwarfed by the empty, cold openness of the street. But the inside of the diner looks warm. One man sits apart, but the…

Silent Hill: Townfall review - an often inspired, if slightly lumbering trek into the fog

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Published: September 21, 2026 08:26

Once a fictional town in Maine, Silent Hill has broken containment and become a transferable oral history mechanism, offered to videogame developers worldwide as a way of investigating, even celebrating local culture. I'm still in two minds about whether…

Roman Sands RE:Build review: A unique and obliterating blend of resort sim, engineering horror and alchemic ritual

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Published: September 18, 2026 15:00

I completed Roman Sands RE:Build late last night, and haven't had nearly enough time to digest it, but I'm keen to help get the word out and energise whatever algorithmic chicanery might contribute to this gorgeous, ugly thing making money. So! Roman Sands…

Control Resonant review: A superbly strange action-RPG that'll make you feel tiny and godly at once

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Published: September 18, 2026 13:00

Control Resonant, much like the inside-out, interdimensional cryptids it has you bashing with a shapeshifting stick, probably shouldn’t exist. At least not in the risk-averse, pennypinching reality that sometimes seems to have enveloped the art of…

Steam Frame review: Another best-in-class VR headset by Valve, though virtual realities clash with economic ones

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Published: September 14, 2026 17:00

It’s a strange time to be selling a new VR headset, and maybe an even stranger time to be buying one. The supply of original virtual reality games has slowed to a dribble, and just as with Valve’s last hardware launch, the Steam Frame arrives covered in…

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault review – a pleasant bout of number go up that’s most remarkable for how much of an improvement it is

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Published: September 4, 2026 16:00

The Moonlighter games cast you as Will, a dungeoneer-merchant hybrid, delving into randomly shifting combat arenas by night and selling the treasures you unearth there by day. In the dungeons, you fight various monsters and beasties and are then offered…