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LIGHT TOUCH

The Witcher 3 Next-Gen Upgrade: Should I Choose Raytracing or Performance?

It's a long-awaited upgrade, but now console players are faced with a stark choice.

SMALL TURN

People in small apartments deserve better driving games: Thrustmaster T128 review

A sim-wheel that’s unapologetically designed for cluttered desks.

IDLE CHATTER

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.29: The best game where you don't do much

Sometimes you just want to do nothing and get rewarded.

JOYSTICK NOEL

Gaming gift guide: The best Christmas gifts for gamers that aren’t video games

Stuck for what to buy your gamer kids for Christmas in 2022? Need to get a present for your nerd spouse? We’ve got you covered.

DEJA VU

Synced: Off Planet is another live service shooter set in an apocalyptic future

If you like that sort of thing, 2023 is your year, it seems.

NEED FOR EXPOSURE

NFS Unbound is great, why didn't EA tell anyone? The Thursday Nite Rant

Need For Speed has finally found its identity, but the publisher almost seems ashamed of it.

LAST MINUTE HEROICS

Midnight Suns is a surprise late contender for Game of the Year

Firaxis finally gives us an Iron Man Mode we can all enjoy.

MARVEL MASHUP

Marvel's Midnight Suns review: Firaxis assembles its most joyful game to date

The feelgood game of the year is a strange, stark contrast to XCOM.

GERALT OF NVIDIA

The Witcher 3 is getting a next-gen upgrade, but does it need one?

The original still holds up remarkably well, but there’s always room for improvement.

ALTA?R WE GO

15 years of Assassin’s Creed: Why there’s never been a better time to replay the first game

The game that changed everything.

REQUIESCAT GAME PASS

Pentiment shows the true value of Game Pass

Games with niche appeal but of huge cultural value benefit from the subscription model.

ARS GRATIA ARTIS

Pentiment review: a wonderful tapestry of historical intrigue, and a welcome treat for Game Pass users

Nobody expects a lavish ink commission.

EYE AM THE MOB

God of War: Ragnar?k casts Odin as a mob boss in a deft blend of The Last of Us and Skyrim

Once again, Kratos' latest adventure is a greatest hits package of AAA gaming.

PANDORA'S IDIOT BOX

God of War: Ragnar?k loves your ?2000 TV

The game ships with a suite of graphics options to make your OLED sing like a valkyrie.

LITERARY THO

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.24: The best game based on a book that nobody who played it has read

We don't talk about book club.

PARP FOR THE COURSE

Classic TV themes in Trombone Champ

We are very, very sorry about this.

CAPTAIN SCIATICA

I hate Marvel Snap and so does my toilet seat

Why can't I stop? Why?

THE RATINGS ARE IN

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.23: The best 6/10 that's better than The Last of Us

Sometimes you get good sixes and iffy nines, we don't make the rules.

POTATO, POTAHTO

Xbox Series S isn’t holding next-gen back, reality is

Devs will always have to cater for the lowest common denominator, which the Series S isn’t.

FILLING IN

VG247's best games ever podcast LIVE at EGX

In which we argue on stage about what constitutes a pie while several people look on bewildered.

THE BLAST OF US

Modern Warfare 2’s campaign eases off the bombast and takes inspiration from Naughty Dog

Call of Duty learns that quiet character moments are often more memorable than exploding bridges.

PIKACHU PERFORMANCE

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is brilliantly ambitious, but possibly too much for the hardware it has to run on.

I hate to be a "we need a Switch Pro" guy but man, we need a Switch Pro.

VIVA ESPA?A

Resident Evil 4 Remake lets you move and shoot, but remains staunchly authentic

How do you improve on perfection?

THE MIDDLING JOKE

Gotham Knights answers the question “Would Batman games be as good without Batman?” with: “No”

A circus of Robins can’t fill the Bat-boots.

RAT RACE

A Plague Tale: Requiem will let you leg it to the end

Asobo Studio's blockbuster sequel wants you to know that stealth isn't everything.

THE MAD RATTER

A Plague Tale: Requiem refines and expands on the original like every good sequel should

The rat apocalypse gets a blockbuster encore in the style of Aliens or Terminator 2.

DISGUSTENG

What the hell is Scorn? This icky survival horror will leave Game Pass subscribers squirming

Xbox decides to involve HR (Giger).

AGGRESSIVELY MID

The First Descendant feels too generic to succeed

High production values and competence can’t elevate bland ideas.

FIGHT CLUB

Street Fighter 6’s online experience sets a new gold standard for players

The battle hub is a perfect blend of high-concept social space and match lobby.

PRATT FALL

We replaced Chris Pratt with Charles Martinet in The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer

Mario's original voice actor has quite the range.

TRAIN BRAINING

RAILGRADE is a railway management puzzler that's a train set for your inner child

This miniature sim is a masterclass in how brilliant art direction can elevate a game from mid-tier to something truly memorable.

DOOMED PLANET

The Invincible will ask much of the audience, but the rewards could be well worth it

Adapting a landmark work of speculative fiction for the Fortnite age is as risky as space exploration itself.

WAR CHANGES A LOT

Modern Warfare 2: Can it recapture the glory days of Xbox Live?

The original MW2 dominated a much less crowded marketplace.

IT IS ME, MARIO!

Is the Mario movie secretly an Uncharted movie? 7 things we've found in the poster

The Super Mario Bros. movie will be jam-packed with easter eggs and deep cuts.

STADIA WITH ME

First OnLive, now Stadia: Cloud Gaming has been rejected by the market twice – it’s time to let it go

Billions of megacorp cash and Stadia still couldn’t mount a serious challenge to consoles launching in an era of chip shortages, pandemics, and recessions.

FI FA FO FUM

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.19: The best game with an acronised name like 'FIFA' that isn't FIFA

This podcast isn't about FIFA, but we've been told to do more stuff on FIFA, so.

HOG WILD

Sonic Frontiers may finally bring 'Sonic the Games' in line with 'Sonic the Phenomenon'

Bold, daft ideas are essential for Sonic's longevity.

CRISIS PHWOAR

Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion: Does it work in a post-remake world, or is it too stuck in the past?

We are once again revisiting the origin of Cloud’s strife.

VOXEL NOIR

EGX vlog: you simply must play Shadows of Doubt

There's no doubt about its quality.

BEST SERVED COLT

Deathloop comes to us all, here's some Xbox Series X gameplay

The exclusivity deal left too many players out of the loop.

'Ken 'ell

Street Fighter 6: Twenty fist-pounding minutes of new hands-on PS5 gameplay

Better fighters, better modes, better get some practice.

CREED ALL ABOUT IT

Assassin's Creed Mirage proves that less is more

Mirage represents a Unity of past and future.

DEUS EX-CHANGED

Are Tomb Raider and Deus Ex now out of the wilderness?

Lara Croft was always too hip to be Square.

Sixth House Rules

The Elder Scrolls Morrowind at 20: Bethesda's total-immersion RPG that changed everything

As Morrowind enters its third decade, we examine why Bethesda's quirky RPG was so impressive – and why the games that followed couldn't hold a candle to it.

Tango's game works

Ghostwire: Tokyo proves there’s nothing inherently wrong with the maligned Ubisoft open-world formula

Why does this action horror game succeed despite following similar design structure?

hard science

Starfield might not be ‘Skyrim In Space’ – removed from fantasy, we could get a new style RPG

With Starfield, Bethesda has the opportunity to change the tune and deliver an experience different to The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.

behind brass eyes

GTA 6's biggest problem isn't living up to the hype, it's the fact that parody is dead

Can GTA's brand of humour work in a world that's beyond parody? VG247 looks into what could be Rockstar's big new issue.

knives out

Waiting for The Elder Scrolls 6? Put down Skyrim and play Daggerfall

If you cannot wait for your next sojourn into Bethesda's sprawling RPG universe, we recommend you go back and play Daggerfall. Not Skyrim, again.

Arrow to the 4K knee

Annoyed about Skyrim’s constant re-releases? Don’t be, the alternative is much worse

Game preservation and emulation are important issues the industry needs to address.