Ninja Gaiden 4 (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £59.99 or included with Xbox Game Pass) Verdict: Swish swordplay Rating: As they say on LinkedIn, some personal news: I am now a fully qualified ninja. All it took was playing through the ten or so hours of Ninja Gaiden 4’s narrative campaign. Well, I say ‘all it took’ … Read more
Strange Antiquities (PC, Switch, £14.99) Verdict: An easy sale Rating: Step aside, Fiona Bruce. It’s time for an Antiques Horrorshow of the sort provided by this, the sequel to 2022’s brilliant Strange Horticulture. Strange Antiquities deposits you, once again, in the creepy old town of Undermere. But, this time, instead of running a plant shop, … Read more
Battlefield 6 (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £59.99) Verdict: Glorious destruction Rating: The world’s a mess. Geopolitics are all over the shop. The Nato alliance is fracturing, while mercenary forces backed by dodgy states are on the rise. No, not our actual world — but the rather-close-to-the-bone fiction of the new Battlefield game. Set a few years … Read more
Ghost Of Yotei (PlayStation, £69.99) Verdict: Familiar but still fantastic Rating: I’ve been here before. Not specifically to the Japanese island of Ezo — an old name for modern-day Hokkaido — but to places like it. Because Ghost Of Yotei, set in feudal Ezo, is much like dozens of other big-budget, open-world adventure games. If … Read more
Silent Hill f (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £69.99) Verdict: It’s not a place, it’s a state of mind. Terror. Rating: Can you do Silent Hill without Silent Hill? Judging by the latest entry in the long-running horror series, the answer is yes — very well. For Silent Hill F is not set in the eponymous, modern-day … Read more
Borderlands 4 (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £59.99) Verdict: Crash landing Rating: As I tell all the ladies, I have a pretty beefy gaming PC at home. But, even so, it still struggled to cope with the demands of Borderlands 4. The graphics kept on stuttering. The gameplay slowed down. It crashed more than once. And it … Read more
Hollow Knight: Silksong (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Switch, £16.75 or included with Xbox Game Pass) Verdict: Smooth as silk Rating: Where to start with Silksong? The fact that we’ve been waiting years for its release, with several moments of false hope along the way? The fact that its actual release date was announced as a surprise … Read more
Cronos: The New Dawn (PlayStation, Xbox, Switch 2, PC, £49.99) Verdict: Happy travels Rating: A new dawn has broken. But not the sunny, Ronald Reagan-y kind of dawn, oh no. This one has turned the industrial buildings of Poland into writhing hellscapes; it’s left the streets strewn with rubble and strange, faceless monsters; the sky is … Read more
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £69.99) Verdict: Delta, bravo! Rating: Back in 2004, a game with the preposterous title of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater set the bar for stealth gaming. By taking the popular series out of military installations and corridors — and into swamps, forests and mountains — … Read more
Echoes Of The End (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £32.99) Verdict: Punching above its weight Rating: Ah, Iceland! Land of vikings, Björk, absurdly expensive bottles of beer — and now, it turns out, ambitious if slightly underwhelming video games. Echoes Of The End was made in Iceland by a small studio called Myrkur Games. Normally, I don’t … Read more
Gemma Collins has made a sweet confession about being a stepmum to her partner Rami Hawash’s son Tristan as she spoke candidly in a new interview on Sunday. The former TOWIE star is fully involved in life of her fiancé Rami’s, 50, son who is now seven years old. In a new interview this weekend … Read more
Mafia: The Old Country (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £44.99) Verdict: The Midfather Rating: Remember that bit in The Godfather where Al Pacino runs off to Sicily? It’s all hilltop villages, sunbaked vineyards and casual murder. Now imagine That Bit in The Godfather: The Game. Because that is what the latest entry in the Mafia series delivers. … Read more
Wildgate (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £24.99) Verdict: Marvellous mash-up Rating: Wildgate is here – and wild is a good word for it. This cartoonish first-person shooter isn’t just, well, a shooter. It casts you as a space prospector hunting for artefacts in the further reaches of the cosmos. In order to find them, and bring them … Read more
