As we descended onto the Koelnmesse exhibition centre for yet another year of Gamescom, there was a sense of excitement in the air. This year, the event brought out heavy hitters like Capcom, Sega, Ubisoft, and that newly established PlayStation deve

Playing as an unexplained omnipresent detective spirit, it’s your job to unravel not only the mysteries of the titular golden idol, but the murder and mayhem that follows in its wake as conniving colonists, feuding family members, and conspiring cult

The Sony executives must have been cheering, high-fiving, and celebrating by going out for frosted-tipped haircuts when they found out their new handheld PSP console would be launching with a Metal Gear game. But their frosted tips must have melted i

FORMAT PS5 / ETA 2025 / PUB CAPCOM DEV CAPCOM / PLAYERS 1-4 From the moment Capcom confirmed that Monster Hunter Wilds would be playable at Gamescom 2024, it was almost inevitable that it would be our favourite game of the show. If the time we spent

With Falloutmania strong after the success of a certain streaming show, the latest major update for 76 needs the strength of a super-mutant to carry expectations. Designed to reward existing players while smoothing the road in for new ones, all power

Perhaps you tend to avoid games with turn-based combat. If so, you should consider giving this one a go, and not only because you can recruit a robot named Dame Judy Wrench. Although let’s face it, that is a pretty good reason. While you need to play

Along with most of the world, we haven’t seen the new Borderlands movie. So we’ve got no idea if the 10%-on-Rotten-Tomatoes-scoring blockbuster (score correct at time of writing) is any good. But we can tell you that the game it’s based on is a fun,

FORMAT PS5 / ETA TBC / PUB KONAMI DEV FAR OUT GAMES / PLAYERS 12 Sure, we all love to complain about delivery companies, but have you tried delivering things yourself? By the time the half-dead marlin flops out of your truck bed for the third time as

You’d be forgiven for assuming this is simply another basic rerelease of Id Software’s genre-defining demon-blasting FPS games. But it’s much more, and a must-buy. For starters, this remaster comes courtesy of Nightdive Studios, which is almost unpar

With 25 years of experience in the industry, Near Light co-founders Paul Mottram and Ben Hebb had always agreed they would only make non-violent games, even at their previous studio, Wide Games, when they made the stealth-based World War II: Prisoner

Over the last 20 years, it’s fair to say the Mana series has been struggling somewhat. The third mainline entry, Trials Of Mana, initially didn’t make it to the West (we eventually got it nearly a quarter of a century after its Japanese debut); Dawn

Rebecca’s turning her life around after a tragic past, but her new job at a mortuary becomes more demanding when the task of putting the dead to rest escalates to banishing demons – the place is haunted. A whole host of randomised haunting events bri

FORMAT PS5 / ETA 29 OCT / PUB SQUARE ENIX DEV DECK NINE / PLAYERS 1 The Life Is Strange universe has grown large enough that you could play quite a few games without any relating directly to the first Life Is Strange. The games are now established as

FIFA and EA FC Ultimate Team revolve around football player cards. Cards feature in many roguelikes, like Monster Train and Slay The Spire. Red Dead Redemption’s card games kept players busy for hours. There have even been Top Trumps videogames. Load

Let’s make one thing clear right away: this is a thoroughly good time. It’s fast and fun, with superb variety to its characters, weapons, and abilities. It’s also a game with an identity crisis. There seems to be the detritus of an abandoned campaign

After years of waiting, it’s finally time for Assassin’s Creed, the game that leaves no historical stone unturned, to make a samurai the hero. Before it launches or you run out of episodes of Shogun to watch, there are plenty of great samurai games y

FORMAT PS5 / ETA TBC / PUB WHITE OWLS / DEV WHITE OWLS / PLAYERS 1 The collaboration of Swery65, known for his horror work like Deadly Premonition, with the wild mind behind No More Heroes and Killer7, Suda51, feels like one made in heaven – where th

FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 10 OCT / PUB SEGA, ATLUS / DEV STUDIO ZERO, ATLUS / PLAYERS 1 An idea so good someone should really have had it before – Metaphor: ReFantazio really feels like someone took the Persona games and transplanted them into a fantasy

One thing we take seriously at PLAY Towers is crude, lewd, and downright silly humour. We loved Thank Goodness You’re Here! for offering chortles worthy of the British comedy greats. Looking for other games to make you crack a smile? Well, we have so

FORMAT PS5 / ETA TBC / PUB THQ NORDIC / DEV TARSIER STUDIOS / PLAYERS 1-2 You know the saying, ‘Curiosity killed the cat,’ though what is all too often forgotten is the bookend, ‘Satisfaction brought it back.’ From the original developer of Little Ni

FORMAT PS4 ETA OUT NOW PUB CAPCOM DEV CAPCOM PLAYERS 1 Who would’ve thought that five years after Phoenix Wright yelled “Objection!” on PlayStation for the first time, the entire series would be available to us? From the sound of it, not even Capcom

So, a soulslike based on the classic Chinese novel Journey To The West? Whatever next? A soulslike based on Pinocchi…oh. Honestly, there are worse influences for an action-RPG than an epic tale of a monkey exploring beautiful lands and hitting everyo

Every great platformer needs a unique hook, and in Pepper’s case her grinder isn’t just a grapple, but also a mechanical key, weapon, and – primarily – a massive drill for tearing through the soil. Pressing R2 plunges her into soft patches of ground

Given that subtitle, you might be worried about a slew of poorly-aged jokes about the size of Ratchet’s wrench, but fortunately, it isn’t that sort of game. Unfortunately, if you’re interested in playing this because you liked Rift Apart, you’re in f

Plenty of premises in the adult animated anthology Love, Death & Robots have had a videogame-y air: time loops; mech fights; special ops that go wildly off the rails – and that’s just season one. Bearing that in mind, the creator’s next project comes

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, this modern classic sees that aphorism and raises it with righteous, rebellious rage. Ostensibly an immersive photography game, you have a range of lenses, camera settings, and filters to play with