Shapers of Gaia Review

Insomniac Games has been on my radar for a long, long time. From their mascot platformer days, you could consider me a fan, and when they started to shift into more serious narratives with Resistance, I was along for the ride. But it wasn’t until Marvel’s Spider-Man in 2018 that I perked up and realized what they could do. With the standalone Miles Morales game and now the full Spider-Man sequel, they’re really proving that they’re one of the biggest forces in game development right now.

There’s a reason our cars aren’t also boats. It’s often as hard as it is risky to combine two very different functions into one package, especially when designing a system to do one thing well can be hard enough. That’s why, as I sat in front of my computer taking stock of the 20+ hours I spent playing Endless Dungeon, I couldn't help but smile at the sheer audacity on display. There’s no other way to describe the daring it must have taken to create this hybrid twin-stick shooting, tower defending, science fiction roguelite. Those are three very different genres all their own, so to take them all on simultaneously and make the result work so well is borderline miraculous.

Marvel Spider-Man 2 reviews have been published ahead of the PlayStation sequel’s release later this week.

The hard-to-see tree skin should be more visible with the latest update.

EA Sports celebrated the release of EA Sports FC 24 by announcing how 11.3 million players tackled the football video game in its first week of release, which is a million more than FIFA 23 managed last year. For all intents and purposes, this symbolises how the rebrand from FIFA to EA Sports FC didn’t harm the franchise one bit – despite naysayers predicting doom and gloom without the football governing body’s muscle behind it.

Warhammer 40K: Introductory Set is an excellent gateway game for new players to follow detailed easy to follow instructions to build, paint, and play to learn basic rules of the Leviathan 10th Edition rule set.

We review Battle Bosses, a light skirmish game published by Kess Co. In Battle Bosses, players have a giant boss miniature that they are using to try and take down their opponent.

We review Robotech: Reconstruction, a board game published by Strange Machine Games. Set in the Reconstruction Era of Robotech, you are competing against three other factions to be the first to achieve your unique objective.

The last time we checked in with Facebook’s ongoing quest to dominate the VR market, their leading headset was called the “Oculus Quest 2.” Now, we’re in a post-Oculus world with the Meta Quest 3. Time to check in and see how much consumer-grade VR has progressed in the past three years. Spoiler: it’s come quite far!

For the longest time, fans of the upcoming Forza game expected the next iteration to be Forza Motorsport 8. Instead, Xbox Games and developers Turn 10 Studios announced that the sub-series of the franchise would be receiving the now standard restart of its popular simulation racing game. Forza Motorsport (2023) – as it is now commonly known – has been stripped down and rebuilt from the ground up.

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise has come a long way in 16 years, as the video games evolved from stealth-based action adventures to the more RPG-based fare as seen in 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Evolution is a crucial part of any creative process, and change is necessary, but it’s still essential to stay true to what something is at its core, which is exactly what Assassin’s Creed Mirage does. This isn’t a soft reboot, though, as it slides right into canon, centring on Basim Ibn Ishaq, a character introduced in Valhalla.

Assassin's Creed Mirage is one of the biggest releases of the year, allowing players to explore ninth-century Baghdad for the first time, alongside returning to the classic stealth formula that helped the series become the success it is today. Is it any good, though?