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Where A Plague Tale's Amicia spent two games hiding in the grass, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy's smuggler Sophia is far more athletic and trained for danger, and it plays less like a full-blown stealth puzzler than like Assassin's Creed crossed with Tomb Raider. On this evidence, it's the best the series has ever felt in our hands.

I will hold my hands up and say I did not expect Lego Batman: The Legacy of the Dark Knight to be this good, or to throw so many references to the Caped Crusader's vast history into your adventure around Gotham. Read more

This prequel spinoff takes some interesting chances, only some of which pay off.

Putting 'legacy' in the title of your game naturally encourages considerations about what that legacy might be – and that, in turn, invites thoughts about its identity. (And perhaps 'supremacy' and 'ultimatum' if you're a big Jason Bourne fan.) It might sound silly to say of a game with some of the most impressive faces and places you'll see this – or any – year. But to me, A Plague Tale is spiritually double-A, and I absolutely mean that as a compliment. I find myself instinctively rooting for this series: there is still something of a scrappy outsider quality to it, even as

Halo Studios has reportedly cancelled a multiplayer project called Ekur, in a move that seems to align with the wide-ranging Xbox cuts announced last week. Read more