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78.9 average score
80 median score
72.3% of games recommended

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Dec 14, 2011

Mojang's indie phenomenon Minecraft has recently been officially 'released', but players have been crafting and surviving in its world for the past three years, Sean Bell takes a look at why it is one of the most progressive and fascinating games ever made.

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Oct 23, 2013

If Pokemon’s greatest pleasure is the joy of discovery, then I’ve finally discovered it. And hooray for that.

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Nov 4, 2013

Call of Duty may aspire to realism, but it's a better game when it acknowledges its silly side.

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Nov 20, 2013

It is so rare to see a virtual world realised with such brio and charm that it’s hard to hold the game’s old-fashioned mechanics against it.

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Nov 20, 2013

The famous plumber's latest outing on Wii U is the most fun you'll have with a platform game this year.

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Dec 3, 2013

The Roman Empire provides the setting fo Xbox One's Ryse, a visually stunning but distressingly shallow hackathon.

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Dec 4, 2013

Resogun is a marvellous, frantic shoot em up, and the surprise star of the PlayStation 4 launch lineup.

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A Link Between Worlds is familiar but fabulous, offering the leanest version yet of Nintendo’s long-standing adventure. Tom Hoggins returns to Hyrule

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Jan 10, 2014

This Xbox One port of the top-down Windows Phone shooter has fizzy gunplay but mediocre missions and questionable monetisation

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The second season of 2012 game of the year builds a strong basis for success, but there are fears it may have lost sight of what made The Walking Dead so good to begin with

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Jan 31, 2014

A wonderful mixture of slapstick and precise competitive duelling, Nidhogg is thoroughly entertaining.

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Nintendo's bounding ape returns again in a thumping, enjoyable but unambitious platform game.

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Feb 21, 2014

The terrifying debut of Red Barrels is a masterclass in the art of video game horror that is stretched a little thin

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Feb 23, 2014

A prolonged development has not been kind to this reboot of the classic Thief series, making for a game stitched together from disparate parts of better contemporaries.

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Slick, deliriously colourful and breezily inventive, Garden Warfare is a curiously engaging shooter.

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Mar 16, 2014

Titanfall may not be a revolution, but its combination of hulking war robots and athletic parkour makes for the most thrilling multiplayer shooter in years.

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Despite its brevity, the prologue to the hugely anticipated Metal Gear Solid V has superb stealth mechanics and stunning attention to detail -- but its pleasures come at a distinctly worrying price.

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Mar 21, 2014

Infamous: Second Son carries a heavy burden of expectation as the newest PlayStation 4 exclusive, but it is a superhero adventure that isn't adventurous enough.

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This collaboration between the DS’s most intelligent and sharply-dressed heroes is a delightful yarn. Tom Hoggins presents his evidence

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May 4, 2014

Rare's collection of sporting mini-games hopes to justify Mirosoft's inclusion of the Kinect camera with every Xbox One. Unfortunately the jury is still out.

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