Tom Orry

BE PREPARED

Before you rush to buy the discounted Steam Deck, know what you’re buying – some essential tips

I love my Steam Deck, but there’s a limit to what it can do.

STOMACH CHVRNING

Switchback VR for PS VR2 is so scary I genuinely had concerns for my health

Do you like the idea of a stomach-churning rollercoaster, but with added jump scares and general terror?

Cartographic images!

Try our new interactive map tool (bonus Tom's house included)

Helping you steer clear from cannibals and find the items you're looking for.

VR-OOOM

Gran Turismo 7 might make you into a VR believer

If it doesn’t, I don’t know what will. This PS VR2 launch title is simply incredible.

THE VRY BEST

The Best PlayStation VR2 games in 2023

The games you absolutely must buy and experience for your PS VR2 headset on PS5.

FLYING SOLO

PS VR2 is brilliant for PlayStation even if it doesn’t sell gangbusters

If you want console VR, you simply have to go PlayStation.

VIRTUAL HILARITY

PS VR2 is almost as entertaining for watchers as it is players

If you’ve got kids that think you are a big idiot, PlayStation VR2 games televised in the living room will only enforce that view, in hilarious ways.

NICHELY DOES IT

PlayStation VR2 review: ?530 on PS5 VR might end up being the best money you've ever spent

The PlayStation virtual reality offering costs about ?1k all-in, but the experience is generation defining.

MOUNT E-VR-EST

Horizon Call of the Mountain review: The view is worth the climb

PS VR2’s key launch title is gorgeous, but at times a little dull.

Zel-don’t to Zel-do

I'd have forever hated this Xbox Game Pass gem if it wasn't for this one menu option

When at first you don’t succeed, just cheat.

GREEN WITH NOSTALGIA

Game Boy games are mostly awful, but GBA on Switch Online Expansion Pack is huge

Game Boy Advance was a golden age of handheld gaming, if you could see the screen.

BOND MEMORIES

As GoldenEye 007 hits Xbox and Switch, please stop dumping on other people's nostalgia

It's OK to not like something, but sometimes you really did have to be there at the time.

UNCUT GEMS

I played Jewel over 200 times last year, but never played beyond level 1

A daily ritual for a few measly points. What am I doing with my life?

Yule backlog

Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus in the '90s would have seemed like a Christmas miracle

This Christmas, Timmy, you've got Xbox Game Pass. Now let me sleep as I've just eaten 12 mince pies.

COFFIN FIT

Best of 2022: Vampire Survivors – Tom’s one true and only choice for GOTY

I’m not even picking runners-up. Nothing else comes close.

KLINGON TO SANITY

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.28: The best game to play while you wait for Starfield

It's time to boldly go and find another excuse to talk about Bethesda games that aren't out yet.

JOHN KICK

New Xbox Game Pass release is more enjoyable than FIFA 23

If you didn't enjoy FIFA 23, this quirky indie RPG might be to your liking - and it's on Game Pass.

Court of Fouls

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast: The 6-month Inquisition Special

After 26 episodes it's time to look back at some of the awful decisions Jim has made.

Survey says...

VG247 Reader Survey 2022

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

GETTING PHYSICAL

Xbox Game Pass has a multiplayer gem that is much better than you think it is

It’s on PS Plus Extra too! This fun, physics-based 3D platformer is a laugh when played with the right people.

One is a duck

Best Starter Pokemon in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet - Evolutions detailed and does the choice matter?

The initial choice of Pokemon feels like a really tough one, but is it worth agonising over?

Deals

Get 10% off Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Nintendo eShop codes in the VG47 store

Limited time deal will see you save money on digital purchases for Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation digital games and store credit.

BSOD fans represent

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.26: The best game that crashed at the worst possible time

It's games that crashed. Don't get smart about this, James? OK?

Barn finds

Forza Horizon 5 Barn Finds - Map locations, gifts, how to unlock hidden cars

There are 14 "barn find" cars in Forza Horizon 5 that are hidden away in barns dotted around the Mexico map. Here's how to find them all.

SCIENCE-FEELS

Somerville review: the most beautiful game I’ve ever played

Jumpship has created a gorgeous work of art that just achieves greatness in Somerville, in spite of some control quirks.

Amazing VARlue

Incredible November Xbox Game Pass addition makes all other games obsolete

The Game Pass line-up for the rest of the year might as well not bother. There’s only one game I’ll be playing.

The Hunger

New Xbox Game Pass addition is so moreish I burnt my lunch

I just couldn’t get enough of the latest game to hit the Xbox sub service, even though my stomach wanted food.

Wales

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.25: The best game with a welsh actor in it

Gareth Bale is welsh.

BLUE BLUR

I pity anyone playing Sonic Frontiers on Nintendo Switch

An uneven game in its best form, on Switch Sonic Frontiers is a mess of pixels and is plain ugly.

YOU'VE BEEN FRAMED

Steam Deck's in-built FPS counter is ruining my life

Bit hyperbolic, yes, but the performance stats and tinkering available on Valve's handheld aren't good for me.

Pray to God Hand

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.22: The best game about gods that isn't God of War

Are "god games" about gods?

Nate-ural on Deck

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection on Steam Deck gives me deep PS Vita nostalgia

PS Vita, you deserved a lot better my friend.

W-AAA-HHH

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope review – a Nintendo Switch exclusive with the alluring charm of a GBA classic

Ubisoft and Nintendo join forces once again to surprise us all with the most unlikely – and lovely –?Nintendo Switch team-up.

Everybody, Yeah!

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.21: The best dead game you'd buy a console for if it came back

What franchise do you want to see rise from the grave?

Snake on a plane

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.20: The best game you played on your phone

Good mobile games come in all shapes and forms.

Lydia! Noooo!

I'm once again thankful I have another chance to fail at getting into Skyrim

Can't wait to lose Lydia on a mountain and then get burned to death by a dragon I didn't see.

Hoodwinked

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.18: The best game you thought was one genre but turned out to be another

The wool has been pulled over our eyes on more than one occasion.

RTXitement

Someone give me about ?1500 so I can play Portal with fancy Nvidia RTX 40 Series graphics

Look, I’m a simple creature. I just want games to look spiffing marvelous.

Audiotore de force

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.17: Best Assassin's Creed game that isn't an Assassin's Creed game and you can't pick Ghost Of Tsushima

We're altairibly sorry, but our game is a lot like yours.

Full Motion Vidiots

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.16: Best game that uses that FMV that was all the rage in the '90s

Games really wanted to be films, didn't they?

love hurts

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.15: Best game with a wedding in it

Till death do us part (or until we fall out over a podcast topic)

joely good

The Last of Us Part I review – A PS5 remake that shines above most

Perhaps not 100% necessary, but still absolutely brilliant.

end us

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.14: Best game you’d fire into space to prove the Earth isn’t worth saving

Some games are just so bad it doesn't pain us in a great light.

Never Let Me Diablo

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.13: Best game that was called a clone of another game

Copy, paste, change slightly, repeat.

Intolerance

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.12: Best game that you hated for a very specific reason

We can't help it when something rubs us the wrong way.

Teenage dirt bag

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.11: Best game that you were ridiculously hyped for as a teen

Teenage independence brought with it the chance to shape our own gaming futures.

bad times

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.10: Best game that is really bad

We all love things we shouldn't love. Video games are no different.

V-juvenile-247

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.9: Best game with balls that isn't a sports game

When this topic was decided, we overestimated our ability to ignore the obvious crude options.

im-press-ive

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.8: Best game that journos love but most people think is a bit naff

Look, we know this is pushing the term "most," but just go with it.

Toys out the pram

VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.7: Best game you wanted as a child but never got

It's hard being a kid. There are so many games but rarely do you have the cash to get them all.