Click: Control Your Game

We all have our happy places: somewhere - real or otherwise - to escape, relax, and replenish away from the stresses of the modern world. Perhaps yours is in nature, lost in the reverie of a spirited hike up a windy hill, or sweatily squatting your cares away amid the pounding Daruda Sandstorms of your local gym. Perhaps your demands are simpler: the call of a good book and an escape into the realm of imagination, or the familiar celluloid embrace of a favourite film, or - as I finally drag this intro into relevance - the soothing rhythms of a beloved video game. And hopefully it's the last on

There are, after a good few hours playing it, quite a few games like Control Resonant. It's an RPG with a kind of pseudo open-world - an "open-ended modern world" I believe was Remedy's way of putting it in its presentation to the press earlier this week - and it has skill trees and some light resource-gathering and item-upgrading. It has some light platforming with a double-jump and a dash, and melee combat with perfect dodges and aerial combos. Read more

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a severely underrated action-adventure game about partnership, with heaps of enemies to slay.

8BitDo has a new mobile controller accessory that clips onto your smartphone, and makes it look like there's half a Game Boy snapped onto the bottom third of your screen. It's called the 8BitDo FlipPad, and it's up for preorder for just $30.There are a few accessories like this, and while I've used a couple, they don't really work for me. I thought I'd like the little button-having plates that only work with that company's specific phone case, but figured out I have strong phone case preferences they don't meet. And while I think there are some great sandwich-st

We've got more brand new Control Resonant gameplay to show you, as we take a look at one of the game's biggest boss fights.