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Innocn 48Q1V 48-inch OLED monitor review: surprisingly strong for PC use
The $1099 Innocn 48Q1V ticks a lot of boxes for me. It's a 4K OLED PC monitor with DisplayPort and HDMI 2.1 inputs, a matte finish and a refresh rate that tops out at 138Hz - oh, and it's gigantic at...
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Aliens: Dark Descent - more stand-up fight than bug hunt
The absolute worst thing in Aliens: Dark Descent isn't an alien, but the timeline in the top-right of the screen - or as I like to call it, Satan's Fast Forward Button. In this scrappy but compelling...
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Park Beyond - more uphill climb than thrill ride
Park Beyond's opening is gloriously silly, as you start off with an introduction to the coaster system by building a ride to take you out of a fire escape, through courtyards, over buildings, and to a...
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Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life - a heartwarming return to a classic...
The first game whose release I ever truly counted down the days to was Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. Sure I had patiently waited for Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire to arrive, but I didn't tick off every...
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Final Fantasy 16 - easy to like, hard to adore
A smart combat system straining under the weight of a characterful but ponderous pseudo-medieval soap opera, with some of the grandest bosses and dullest sidequests in FF history. The Final Fantasy...
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Sludge Life 2 - more sly greatness from the masters of the compact open-worlder
It took me a long time to realise that Sludge Life 2 is a diorama. And, wait! So was the first game! These sun-faded, intricate, often queasy worlds that you scramble your way through, part puzzle,...
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Synapse - a pure power fantasy that epitomises everything great about virtual...
It starts with a squeeze of the trigger and a flick of my left wrist. Where once stood an enemy, gun raised and pointed in my direction, there's now an empty space. Looking up I follow the body as it...
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 vs RTX 3060 review: higher frame-rates, less VRAM
Regularly topping the Steam hardware survey as the most popular graphics cards, Nvidia's 60-class products are often the 'go to' product for the mainstream gamer, with the green team usually...
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Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE - A murder mystery in need of conviction
The Danganronpa franchise, spearheaded by creator Kazutaka Kodaka, has endured an afterlife far beyond its humble origins as a PSP murder investigation and school life simulator run by a maniacal...
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie - a heartfelt conclusion that...
Returning to Crossbell and Erebonia left me surprisingly sentimental. Only three years have passed since my introduction to Nihon Falcom's RPG series, but Trails Into Reverie still feels pleasantly...
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - a fine remaster for this adventure classic
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective remains one of my favourite Nintendo DS games and I consider it a must-play for Ace Attorney fans. Not because the two feel similar, mind. Shu Takumi's supernatural...
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Amarantus - a superb visual novel that gives you revolutions within revolutions
A beautifully written and illustrated tale of young people trying to change their world, which comes alive on replay. I seldom feel like completing a game's story twice, even when a single run only...
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Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals - one restless night of mysteries
If I remember this correctly, the movie American Graffiti starts with a close-up of a car radio frequency display. American Graffiti is about a group of young people wandering around on a special...
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Exoprimal - a surprisingly rich blend of dino-killing and team vs team
Over the past 20 years, video game developers have treated us to many cautionary AI stories with which to prise apart and comprehend today's burgeoning ChatGPTapocalypse. There's ECHO, with its...
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Pikmin 4 - Nintendo's oft-overlooked garden strategy reaches near-perfect...
I've always loved the Pikmin series' setting, and the suggestion that these tiny creatures are hiding somewhere out there in our world, overlooked but only just out of sight. And I love the idea that...
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Roto Force - a frantic twin-stick bursting with imagination
Here are some compliments regarding Roto Force that may initially sound like backhanded compliments, but are actually just about the highest compliments I can give. First one. Roto Force is a...
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Lakeburg Legacies - competent village management missing a spark
Dating and relationship mechanics have become almost expected in visual novels and modern RPGs, but it's when other genres dip their toes into it that my interest is highest, like the weird melding of...
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Sennheiser HD 660S2 review: Legendary reference cans at a high price
These are the latest iteration of Sennheiser's long-running HD 660 line of open-back reference headphones, the brand-new HD 660S2. They're a bit of a set of 'grail headphones', especially given their...
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What's the best ultra-premium OLED monitor for PC gaming?
At Digital Foundry HQ, OLED monitors are like buses - you don't see any for ages and then three come at once. Today we're taking a look at one 34-inch QD-OLED, the £1149 Philips Evnia 34M2C8600, and...
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Disney Illusion Island - Mickey's first metroidvania, for better or worse
Nobody is taking Donald away from me. I love his perpetual grumpiness and 'over it' attitude, combined with that wet and phlegmy unintelligible babble. In a game of childlike magical wonder and...
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