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Session: Skate Sim rolls out of Early Access in September The most realistic skate sim is about to get a bit more real. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. With Skate 4 development well underway, Skater XL attracting a solid indie crowd, and the Tony Hawk’s series pulling its best trick since its earliest outings (by releasing remakes of those earliest outings in 2020), the skating genre is in a fine place....

The end of turn-based Final Fantasy was inevitable, but I’m still sad to see it go Final Fantasy radically reinvents itself between instalments, but FF16’s action focus feels like a point of no return. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The big centerpiece of Sony’s E3 season State of Play this year was thenew trailer for Final Fantasy 16, revealing its Summer 2023 release date and showing off titanic summons and action-heavy combat....

The making of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory As the series' return sneaks up on us, we debrief Sam Fisher’s finest outing with its creators. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In a nocturnal world of oily shadows, where darkness cuts into damp surfaces illuminated by solitary swinging lightbulbs, the green-goggled man is king. By the time the third entry in the Splinter Cell series, Chaos Theory, was released in 2005, we were already well acquainted with Sam Fisher’s skill set; with just a year between this and his previous outing, we thought we knew what to expect, and expectations were high....

The Sims 3 was ultimate freedom for builders Back to the best building tools of the series. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. For some, The Sims series is a wonderful sandbox simulation in which wacky fake people survive a gauntlet of unlikely house fires or where approximations of school crushes become spouses. For me, it’s always been about the building....

The Sims 4: Werewolves will let you roleplay as a hipster lycanthrope Which is totally cool if you’re into that sort of thing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. “Embrace your transformation June 16” reads the first line of EA’s promo page for the next Sims 4 add-on, simply titled “Werewolves”. Will this expansion leave you howling like a wolf?...

These AI-generated Dukes Nukem never asked to be born AI art bots are kinda spooky, but they make for great bants. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I have to be honest here, AI art bots likeDALL-Escare the hell out of me, our overly sanguine tech mavericks once again announcing, “Man creating a thinking machine in his own image is rad as hell, actually!...

Unavowed developer release time-travelling trailer for their latest game Out with the old, in with the Old Skies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. You can keep your big-budget games with their roomfuls of writers sweating to replicate the beats and drama of Hollywood blockbusters; some of the best writing in videogames has come from some of its smallest studios, andthis isn’t the first timeI’m highlighting the brilliance of Dave Gilbert and Wadjet Eye Studios....