The Legend of Zelda has always had its delightful idiosyncracies --aggressive chickens, sultry fairies, Tingle-- but 1993 Game Boy adventure Link's Awakening has always been one of the most curious.
In the annual football sim faceoff, fans of Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer have always hung their scarves on the idea that PES is far superior on the pitch than monied rival FIFA.
Of all the things I expected from Gears 5 --ear-splitting gunfire, chainsaws and alien heads popping like watermelons-- bursts of laughter were not on the list.
Sam Barlow's BAFTA-snaffling Her Story was a fabulously tight and taut whodunwhat as you pieced together the tale of a mysterious young woman from a jumbled collection of police interview clips.
Days Gone is a game that is, at once, both so close and so far from being what it could have been. There are certainly things here to enjoy and sufficiently pass the time. Those dusty roads of Oregon being the most prominent, but when that world is so empty and its inhabitants so vacant, it starts to become a real challenge to care.
From much of the creative talent behind the revered Burnout series, does Dangerous Driving rekindle its rambunctious racing?
Nintendo's Labo VR kit sees the Japanese gaming giant's foray into family-friendly virtual reality.
Yoshi's Crafted World is a great, fuzzy stress ball of a game.
Few games task you so harshly or dare to drive you to such frustration, but few games are as rewarding or exhilarating when you succeed.
One of the things that has surprised me during my first hours in The Division 2's ravaged Washington DC, is just how thoroughly competent it all is.
It would be easy to write off the bewildering state that Anthem is in as the result of video game design by committee.
There is a train of thought that Tetris is, was and forever will be the finest piece of game design the world has ever seen.
It all feels mightily uneven. For every thrilling gunfight or anecdote-worthy encounter in the wilderness are other stories of frustration or key non-player characters wandering away from the objective and getting stuck on a rock
As the third entry in the fearsomely oppressive survival-shooter series, Metro Exodus appears to set its stool out early.
If there is one thing that Respawn's potential Fortnite killer Apex Legends appreciates, it is the delights of a properly executed slide.
Labelling this new version of Capcom's survival-horror classic a 'remake' somehow feels like an curious understatement.
At times it can feel that Capcom's samurai adventure Onimusha is one of the PS2's forgotten classics.
Sega has released Catherine Classic, Atlus's surreal cult puzzle-platformer, as an upgraded PC port on Steam today.
Super Smash Bros Ultimate, for all its accessibility and riotous multiplayer fun, may be one of the few mainstream Nintendo games that isn’t necessarily for everyone. But that’s okay. Because in pursuing its more technical elements and providing its most substantial solo adventure yet, it's hard to see Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as anything other than a series’ best.
Battlefield 5 is without doubt one of the most perplexing video game releases of recent years.