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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Xenia quest has everything: adventure, rewards, the chance for romance. It’s a satisfyingly sized little undertaking to keep you busy and a nice diversion from the pressure of the main story. The Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Xenia missions will also earn you a trophy / achievement, as well …

We might not be able to see our houses from here, but we can damn sure spot the place in downtown Seattle where we had to convince a friend not to buy a three-foot long, $45 Alaskan crab leg. Said spot is Pike Place Fish Market, and we have just …

This month we share everything we know about the latest Star Wars action-adventure game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (opens in new tab)! It’s a melee-focussed, Dark-Souls-y kind of action game with lightsabers, Wookiees, AT-ATs and more! We take a deep dive into Gears 5, going behind the scenes at …

Sometime in 2005, Gary Napper – now Game Director at Supermassive Games – was walking through the offices of EA Bright Light when he noticed a group of colleagues crowding around a desk, mesmerised by something on a screen. “The designers had huge smiles of wonder on their faces,” he …

Asteroid defence cannons. On-board tram networks. Oh, and devout cult members turned Necromorphs. The dank, blood-drenched halls of the USG Ishimura is full of surprises, all of which helped to solidify Dead Space’s planet-cracking vessel as one of videogame horror’s most memorable haunted houses. Chief amongst such hellish treats, however, …

We all love something for nothing, don’t we? Personally I love being given free games to review and free mocktails at game launches; I love those free chocolates hotel maids leave on pillows, or free pretzels you get on planes. Or Free, the ’70s rock band. I also love it …

Hello again, and welcome to The Fixer, a monthly column in which I – the most uniquely qualified games critic working today – turn my unfathomable expertise towards the very worst gaming clichés, like a Death Star focusing its big green laser on a planet full of dumb Ewoks. My long …

15 months ago GR published a piece (opens in new tab) lamenting the fact that no one was playing, or so much as talking about, 2017’s official Ashes Cricket game. This summer the willow-waving world gets an opportunity to rectify that with today’s announcement of a sequel: Cricket 19 – …

It’s no secret the Anthem (opens in new tab) game demo was having trouble over the weekend. Beset by infinite loading screens, latency hiccups, and server downtime, BioWare and EA were working round the clock to get players into the second demo for its open world multiplayer shooter, which has …

The head writer of Cyberpunk 2077 (opens in new tab) is trading Warsaw for Irvine with a new gig at Blizzard. Sebastian Stepien’s employment change first surfaced via a quiet edit to his LinkedIn profile (opens in new tab); we confirmed with CDPR that Stepien had left and The Hollywood …