Strange Antiquities: A Shop of Weird Wares and Even Weirder Customers

Strange Antiquities: A Shop of Weird Wares and Even Weirder Customers

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

War Is Hell, But Battlefield 6 Makes It Look Amazing: Peter Hoskin Reviews Combat Mode

War Is Hell, But Battlefield 6 Makes It Look Amazing: Peter Hoskin Reviews Combat Mode

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

Metal Gear Solid: A Self-Indulgent, Bonkers, and Brilliant New Game!

Metal Gear Solid: A Self-Indulgent, Bonkers, and Brilliant New Game!

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

Why We Visit Iceland: Peter Hoskin Explores Glaciers and Volcanoes with a New Video Game.

Why We Visit Iceland: Peter Hoskin Explores Glaciers and Volcanoes with a New Video Game.

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 Shares Stepmum Joys with Fiancé Rami Hawash’s Son Tristan, 7, Amid Wedding Plans

Gemma Collins Shares Stepmum Joys with Fiancé Rami Hawash’s Son Tristan, 7, Amid Wedding Plans

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

Bring the Sicilian Countryside Home: Mafia: The Old Country

Bring the Sicilian Countryside Home: Mafia: The Old Country

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