I Will Become a Swordsman

Hands-on with the next N+.

There's a funny thing with video game genres in particular: a lot of them are based on just closely tracing the lines of preexisting games, only with a few small mechanical tweaks and a different-enough setting over the top. And few genres are quite as obvious in that regard as the XCOM-alike: a turn-based tactics game based on managing a small squad of permanently-killable allies through a series of close-quarters, grid-based combat encounters, before ducking out to do a bit of RPG-lite housework in some kind of base or mothership metagame. This is Star Wars: Zero Company, a game where you do

Alongside gore and guts, players should expect plenty of cake when Marvel's Wolverine releases on the PlayStation 5 this September 15.

‘Stray Dog: nobody cares’ is going viral, and it’s not hard to see why: it’s an upcoming Souslike game where you play as a stray dog on a mission to rescue its master.

Konami has announced Nintendo players won't be left out when the Metroidvania releases later this year