Month: November 2022

Somerville reviewed on PC by Ryan McCaffrey. Also available on Xbox. Somerville follows its own unique path within the puzzle-adventure genre. That path isn’t always a smooth one, with camera annoyances and physics wonkiness occasionally serving as a pebble in your shoe while solving its series of pleasantly challenging puzzles, and the story is more
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Somerville is a delightfully bizarre, physics-based puzzle adventure game that was developed by some of the former talent that created Playdead’s pair of modern classics: Limbo and Inside. And yet at the same time it plays very differently from those offerings, reminding me more of the seminal early-’90s classic Out of This World than Limbo
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The latest boxed-video games charts have come through from the biggest gaming market in Europe, the United Kingdom. There is a new No.1 this week and it is the well-received God of War: Ragnarok which has dethroned Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and is now the second biggest video game launch of 2022, after
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Somerville reviewMechanically simple but visually engrossing, Somerville offers an interesting, if not particularly deep, sci-fi adventure. Developer: Jumpship Publisher: Jumpship Release: November 15h 2022 On: Windows From: Steam, Game Pass Price: TBC It’s late evening. A family is dozing in front of the TV, their dog at their feet. Suddenly the TV turns to static,
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The Xbox One S All-Digital was Microsoft’s first disc-less console, and a sign of things to come. It represented a grand experiment into the future of how we consume film, TV, entertainment and games.  We’re using past tense there because Microsoft is no longer producing new Xbox One S All-Digital or Xbox One X consoles.
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During a live event streamed this morning, Geoff Keighley and the team behind the Game Awards revealed their nominees for the 2022 awards season, including their six picks for Game of the Year. The show will take place in person at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, but will also be streamed online for free on
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Pentiment reviewed by Leana Hafer on PC. Also available on Xbox. “As an engrossing 15 to 20-hour adventure game, a chronicle of a small town and its people in turbulent times, a reverent celebration of the finer details of Late Medieval history, and a clever detective story in which straight answers are hard to come
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