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Slitterhead Review - Surface Tension
Third-person action game Slitterhead often presents a pretty compelling front. At first, it sounds like an out-there horror game with an inventive approach to gameplay. You play as a formless spirit that can possess humans, hunting vicious monsters capable of imitating normal people. Those creatures explode from the heads of their human bodies to reveal their true forms when discovered.As cool as all those words clearly are, Slitterhead never reaches the promise of its premise, apart from a few...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies Review
The best part of any Call of Duty game's Zombies mode is how it facilitates panic. The longer you play the round-based horde mode, in which the undead stream toward you from all directions, the tougher it becomes, and before long, you're sprinting around the map, trying desperately to stay alive as crowds of corpses shamble after you. Your only chance is to stop and fire away to thin out the approaching wave of undeath, hoping you don't run into any huge mutated monstrosity while your back is tu...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer Review
There's an argument to be made that speed is what makes Call of Duty multiplayer feel so good. As a franchise, the CoD games are great about getting you into the action as quickly as possible. When you shoot opponents, they tend to go down fast; when you die, you can be back in the fight in about a second. With Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Treyarch leans into the speed of the franchise in just about every respect, starting with some meaningful adjustments to movement systems and ending with map de...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Campaign Review
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 remains my favorite of developer Treyarch's contributions to the long-running and sometimes formulaic shooter franchise, because it's the one that takes the most wild swings. It mixes traditional Call of Duty linear levels with a top-down, real-time-strategy-like experience that lets you move troops around the battlefield and then zoom down like a gunslinging ghost to possess any one of them and do the fighting yourself. It also logs your choices, your successes, and yo...
Uzumaki Anime Review - Junji Ito Adaptation Adds Intensity As It Spirals
Among all of Junji Ito's vast body of horror manga work, Uzumaki manages to be the most unsettling. Many of his stories concern elements of building dread, encroaching madness, and beautifully off-putting body horror, but few combine all three to the same effect as Uzumaki, where the concept of a spiral pattern infects and mutates the inhabitants of a small town in myriad awful ways.Adult Swim's anime adaptation of Uzumaki focuses on that unsettling feeling in its premiere episode, which was pro...
Alien: Romulus Review - Structural Imperfection
"Get away from her--you bitch," a character stutters in a relative monotone, turning an iconic moment from Aliens into a somewhat more halting, slightly funnier one in Alien: Romulus.What compelled director Fede Álvarez to include this moment in Romulus is anyone's guess. It's a line that makes no real sense in context, it's out of character for the person who says it, and there's no particular reason to use that particular word on this particular alien monster. In Aliens, when Sigourney Weaver'...
Once Human review: "Like a crawling bus, its more original elements hide dull and generic ones"
Once Human offers a world full of strange creatures that's refreshingly unique in the survival MMO genre, but that world is populated by derivative gameplay and boring combat and never matches the potential of its premise.Why you can trust GamesRadar+
Our experts review games, movies and tech over countless hours, so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about our reviews policy.The most iconic image to come out of Once Human is a mutated, insectile city bus. Instead of wheels,...
Our experts review games, movies and tech over countless hours, so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about our reviews policy.The most iconic image to come out of Once Human is a mutated, insectile city bus. Instead of wheels,...
Destiny 2: The Final Shape Review - Becoming Legend
It's impossible to think about The Final Shape without the context of the last 10 years, the seven other Destiny 2 expansions, and the four original Destiny expansions--plus the vanilla campaigns that came with both games. This eighth Destiny 2 expansion is, to some degree, the culmination of the somewhat haphazard decade-long journey that the first game spawned, in which Bungie has continually tried experiment after experiment in gameplay, adjusted and recalibrated its storytelling, and worked
Destiny 2: The Final Shape Review-in-Progress
It's impossible to think about The Final Shape without the context of the last 10 years, seven other Destiny 2 expansions, and four original Destiny expansions, plus the campaigns that came with the releases of both games. This eighth Destiny 2 expansion is, to some degree, the culmination of the somewhat haphazard decade-long journey that the first game spawned. And while the story itself hasn't always been consistently building toward a conclusion, there's a clear, mostly positive evolution ac
XDefiant Review
XDefiant is an FPS with an identity crisis. This arcade-style arena shooter pulls characters and locations from various Ubisoft games, and it feels a little bit like a lot of different things as a result: It's fast and twitchy in a way that’s similar to games like Call of Duty, but has class abilities that might put it closer to something like Overwatch. It’s got fast respawns and faster deaths, but offers objective-based modes that prioritize teamwork over straight killcount. That combination o
Fallout (Amazon Show) Review - Of The People, For The People
Capturing what makes the Fallout series endearing as a TV show is a tall order. So much of the experience relies on the sense of discovery that comes from wandering the Wasteland. You may enter a subway tunnel on a whim and encounter a city made up of people who think they're vampires, or meet a guy who is also a tree. Whether it's speaking with the leaders of factions about their values and deciding whether they're your values, or just sneaking around a supermarket overtaken by murderous robots
Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile Review
Successfully bringing well-known console video games to phones and tablets requires hitting a very specific balance. You want the mobile version to feel like the same game people already like, while acknowledging that using a touchscreen device usually means playing for a short period of time on something that's not designed for games. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile is a pretty ideal demonstration of hitting that balance — it maintains all the most important elements of the PC and console Warzone
Rise Of The Ronin Review - Long-Term Investment
If someone tells me a game takes several hours to "get good," my immediate feeling is that I will never play that game. Who has hours to waste waiting for the good part of anything when there are so many other games to play? But my opinion of Rise of the Ronin changed drastically over the course of my 50 hours of playtime--in the first five or 10 hours, I didn't really like it. By the end, I was planning to dive back in to clear out side quests and replay key moments to see how the story might c
3 Body Problem Review - Unpredictable
Content warning: This review includes discussion of, and 3 Body Problem includes depictions of, self-harm.
Adapting Liu Cixin's science-fiction novel, The Three-Body Problem, is no small feat. The sweeping story leaps across timelines and bounces between the perspectives of a number of characters. All that goes to convey big ideas about physics and astronomy in the context of a mystery full of strange occurrences. Netflix's series adaptation of the story, 3 Body Problem, succeeds because it tak
Adapting Liu Cixin's science-fiction novel, The Three-Body Problem, is no small feat. The sweeping story leaps across timelines and bounces between the perspectives of a number of characters. All that goes to convey big ideas about physics and astronomy in the context of a mystery full of strange occurrences. Netflix's series adaptation of the story, 3 Body Problem, succeeds because it tak
Shōgun Review - Game Of Ronin
Ever since Game of Thrones came to an end back in 2019, I've been itching for some expansive medieval political intrigue. FX's adaptation of Shōgun, James Clavell's 1975 novel, provides exactly what I've been craving. It widens its view of the original story, which follows a fictionalized version of the adventures of the first Englishman to reach Japan, to put a greater emphasis on the dangerous political world that man finds himself trapped in. This new adaptation of Shōgun is all about the mac
The Inquisitor Review
Video games can be great vehicles for mysteries. The idea of gathering clues, questioning witnesses, and giving dramatic speeches where you stun an array of suspects with your intellect makes for an exciting fantasy. But lots of games stumble trying to fit the inherently open-ended, red-string-connecting fantasy of the detective into traditionally linear story structures. The Inquisitor is a game like that — it starts with the compelling concept of playing as a medieval church cop hunting a vamp
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Review
I fell in love with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time way back in 2003, when it helped redefine 3D action-adventure games with its clever rewind ability enhancing its environmental puzzles and fast, acrobatic combat. But while the aughts saw a bunch of sequels with similar elements, none ever quite hit the same heights as The Sands of Time – and the 2010s were a parched desert for the series. But like an oasis, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown finally nails what I loved about those classic Pri
Lego Fortnite Review
Surprising absolutely no one, Fortnite and Lego snap satisfyingly together like a couple of plastic construction bricks. Combining the building creativity of Lego sets with Fortnite's expansive and often gorgeous island playgrounds is a smart match that creates an approachable yet fairly deep survival game. But while it streamlines a few of the more cumbersome aspects of the genre, Lego Fortnite also has the distinct feel of an early access game, trading as much on its future potential as its cu
Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Review - The Good Blue Man Group
Before starting Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, I was reminded of what I think of when considering any open-world game: Killscreen's review of Fallout 4 by Chris Breault, and the opening line, "Here comes the trashman!" Breault discusses an experience of constantly picking up and covering yourself in the garbage scattered around that game's massive world. It's a description that feels highly applicable to most open-world games--huge, but full of refuse that you spend endless hours picking through
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Zombies Review
Like a lot of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, this year’s Zombies mode has undergone what might be described as a "Warzone-ification," forcing its traditional PvE elements into a larger, more open map. But as popular as the Warzone side of Call of Duty (or in this case, the extraction shooter mode, DMZ) might be, mixing it together with Zombies has had the effect of diluting both.
The Talos Principle 2 Review - Machine Learning
Video games often deal with the end of the world and thinking about how cool it might be. Like, sure, it sucks that most everyone has to die horribly for the end of the world to take place, but those of us who survive might get to shoot evil marauders or rotting mutants or giant bugs. Or maybe there are evil marauders, rotting mutants, and giant bugs who are trying to bring about the end of the world, and you can shoot them to prevent it. In any event, the idea of finding fun settings that let y
Skull Island: Rise of Kong Review
Here's the thing about King Kong: He is not just an ape, he's a giant ape. Skull Island: Rise of Kong is bad for a lot of reasons, but the main one is it's a game that lets you play as an iconically large gorilla and somehow manages to make him feel exceedingly average.
Lords Of The Fallen Review - Dark Slog
There are a lot of elements that might be said to define Souls-like games, but high on the list has to be the genre’s particular approach to pacing. As a group of action-RPGs, they’re defined first by periods of growing, ratcheting tension. You fight through long areas filled with tough enemies, with each one dropping "souls" that you can spend to level up your character, which you risk losing if you die before you reach a safe place where you're able to spend them.
Following the build of tensi
Following the build of tensi
Thymesia Review - Hunter Homage
A lot of games have drawn inspiration from the works of From Software, with varying degrees of success. While many developers look to emulate that high degree of challenge that comes from the likes of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro, they often miss the fact that it's From's thoughtful, tight gameplay and deliberate encounter design that makes these games fun, not just a punishing difficulty. Thymesia, a 3D action game that draws heavy influence from some specific From titles, manages to stri
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Mythology Meets Modernity in Norse-Inspired Action Game ‘Street Gods,’ Launching Today on Meta Quest
Street Gods, launching today on Meta Quest, puts you in the role of an ordinary girl wielding the power of the gods, bringing the hammer down on enemies ranging from undead draugr to towering, corrupted jotunn. It’s up to you to push back the monsters and stop reality from being torn apart.The Nine Realms have come crashing into New York City, bringing a horde of ravenous mythological creatures to the streets. But the explosion of mythology into the modern world also brings you a powerful weapon...
Catch Waves in Virtual Reality in ‘True Surf,’ Launching Today on Meta Quest
True Surf channels the feeling of surfing with the use of its physics engine, recreating the science of waves with realistic graphics. But developer True Axis Pty Ltd goes further, using actual wave data drawn from the physical world — both historical and current weather details — to bring the most realistic waves possible into the game. That allows them to accurately recreate some of the gnarliest surf spots on the planet. And you can surf the waves that are rolling up to the beach right now.Vi...
‘HARD BULLET:’ New Year Update Adds Night Club Arena and Deadly Snowmen
Sandbox first-person shooter HARD BULLET is all about creating over-the-top action-movie moments. As you venture into its arenas, you’re tasked with taking down waves of enemies with just about anything you can get your hands on, from knives and spear, to swords and of course, lots and lots of guns. But things are about to get more challenging and more festive. Hard Bullet’s latest update brings a holiday theme to the action as you take on aggressive enemy snowmen while decking the halls. You ca...
Scatter the Bones of Your Enemies (and Friends) in Arena Party Brawler ‘Last Bone,’ Out Now on Meta Quest
Competing against your friends can be intense, and under the right circumstances, it can also be ridiculous. That’s the approach taken in Last Bone, a multiplayer brawler where you’ll fight with your friends to come out on top. With over-the-top weapons that might not work the way you expect, a trap-filled arena that could betray you at any moment, and a skeleton band putting music to the mayhem, Last Bone’s battles are anything but predictable — and it’s launching today on Meta Quest.
The Best PC Games Of 2025
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The sheer number of games released on PC each year continues to grow, reaching frankly staggering figures. Playing them all is simply impossible, but we did play more than a few great ones in 2025.Below, we've compiled our picks for the best PC games of 2025. For the purposes of this list, we considered games that are either exclusive to PC or are me...
The sheer number of games released on PC each year continues to grow, reaching frankly staggering figures. Playing them all is simply impossible, but we did play more than a few great ones in 2025.Below, we've compiled our picks for the best PC games of 2025. For the purposes of this list, we considered games that are either exclusive to PC or are me...
The Best PS5-Exclusive Games Of 2025
Death Stranding 2: On the BeachOn paper, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach shouldn't work. It's a paradoxical blend of emotions, juxtaposing themes of grief and loss with moments of choreographed dance numbers and confronting Godzilla-sized threats with a Megas XLR-style solution. But what makes Death Stranding 2...
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – From the Ashes Hands-On Impressions
Massive Entertainment expands its take of Pandora with a new story that transforms the world and adds some cool new elements to an already solid game. When it was released in 2023, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora succeeded in the daunting task of bringing its own kind of life to the world of James Cameron's Avatar movies. Developer Massive Entertainment wisely chose not to retell the story of the films, instead weaving a tale on the other side of the moon of Pandora where the films take place.
Avatar DLC Hands-On: How The New Movie Sets Frontiers Of Pandora's World Aflame
When it was released in 2023, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora succeeded in the daunting task of bringing its own kind of life to the world of James Cameron's Avatar movies. Developer Massive Entertainment wisely chose not to retell the story of the films, instead weaving a tale on the other side of the moon of Pandora where the films take place.But while Frontiers excelled at turning the dense, visually fascinating world of Pandora into a cogent, interactive space and exploring the culture of the N...
Team Up in First-Person MOBA ‘STARVAULT,’ Launching Out of Early Access Today on Meta Quest
Lots of video game genres translate to virtual reality in a pretty straightforward way — the games are usually pretty similar to their flatscreen counterparts, only more immersive and immediate. But for STARVAULT and the developers at Theia Games, building a MOBA from the ground up for VR completely transformed the experience, requiring a variety of adjustments to make it work.For the uninitiated, MOBA stands for “multiplayer online battle arena,” and games typical of the genre include Riot Game...
Nioh 3 hands-on report
The striking thing about Nioh 3, even compared to the first two games, is how many options you have in any given fight. A huge number of weapons, stances, and abilities to create a vast array of fast-paced attacks, and help you survive against devastating, powerful opponents.
Publisher Koei Tecmo recently gave me a chance to go hands-on and explore a new area of Nioh 3, complete with a pair of tough bosses to battle. Here’s everything I found, saw, and fought along the way.
Nioh 3 puts you...
Publisher Koei Tecmo recently gave me a chance to go hands-on and explore a new area of Nioh 3, complete with a pair of tough bosses to battle. Here’s everything I found, saw, and fought along the way.
Nioh 3 puts you...
Get Lost in the Mind-Bending ‘Hotel Infinity,’ Launching Today on Meta Quest
Strange things are afoot at Hotel Infinity. What at first appears to be a normal, if vast, grand hotel quickly becomes something else. The hallways don’t seem to fit together properly. Doors open onto impossible spaces. Your perspective on a room changes its shape. In order to find your way through, you’ll need to think carefully and nonlinearily, because the laws you’ve come to know about the world don’t apply here. The good news is, you can check in right away, because Hotel Infinity is availa...
Use Clever Traps to Ward Off an Invasion of Tiny Creatures in ‘Little Critters,’ Launching Today on Meta Quest
Finding weird creatures in your house that don’t belong there can be a big problem. In Little Critters, you’ve got the solution: a series of ridiculous traps that let you smash, zap, fling, and explode a horde of colorful pint-sized monsters to stop them from invading your home.
Take-Two Boss: "We're Not Using" AI As An "Excuse" To Reduce Headcount
Take-Two Interactive is using some AI tools in areas of its business that aren't creative, but the company is not looking to use those tools to replace any staff, CEO Strauss Zelnick said during Take-Two's November earnings call."I think there are plenty of areas of business where the tools we have rolled out at the enterprise are helping us. We are not either using this as an excuse to, or frankly seeing the opportunity to, reduce headcount," Zelnick said on the call, answering a question about...
We Have Liftoff: ‘Space Explorers: Ultimate Edition’ Offers New Content and a More Immersive Experience, Launching Today on Meta Quest
When it was first released, Emmy® Award-winning immersive series Space Explorers used the power of virtual reality to let users experience life aboard the International Space Station, and the awe and enormity of space itself, without ever leaving their living rooms. The series returns with Space Explorers: Ultimate Edition, adding new content and a new, enhanced immersive experience, available today on Meta Quest.
Build a Cozy, Relaxing Space of Your Own in ‘Little Planet,’ Launching Out of Early Access Today on Meta Quest
Sometimes, you just want an opportunity to kick back and take it easy. Little Planet puts its emphasis not on pushing you to complete long lists of activities or to compete against other players, but on taking your time, doing what you like, and making a space that’s all your own. After two years in Early Access, Little Planet’s full release is available for free today on the Meta Horizon Store.
Battlefield 6 Season 1 first details and hands-on report
Battlefield 6 has blasted onto the FPS scene, revitalizing Electronic Arts’ franchise with a return to classic elements and a hefty dose of widespread destruction. But its October 10 release was just the beginning. Developer Battlefield Studios has more free content coming for the game, starting with its first season, which kicks off on October 28 and runs to November 11.
Seasons for Battlefield 6 are broken into three timed, themed updates. The first in Season 1 is Rogue Ops, bringing a new...
Seasons for Battlefield 6 are broken into three timed, themed updates. The first in Season 1 is Rogue Ops, bringing a new...
Battlefield 6 — 9 ways it evolves the franchise’s formula
In a lot of ways, Battlefield 6 is a return to some of the classic elements of the first-person shooter series. But even as it draws on features that players have loved for years, it also makes adjustments to the formula that can seem small, but have a big impact. From changes to the class system to help you find your perfect play style, to map destruction that can create chaos or provide advantages, Battlefield 6’s look back to its past is actually full of steps forward into its future.
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‘Scared by Squares’ Drops You in a Frightening World Made Only of Cubes, Available Now in Early Access
The immersive nature of VR makes it great for creating scary experiences. With your vision totally enveloped and sound that makes it feel like you’ve been transported to another world, VR developers are often able to make just about anything frightening. Solo developer CJ Capelotti of Siege Industries has taken that idea to an extreme, however, with a game filled with spooky geometric shapes called Scared by Squares.
‘RAGER’ Gets Your Heart Pumping as You Fight to the Beat, Launching Today in Early Access
When two skilled fighters clash, their moves can take on an intense grace, like a violent dance. RAGER takes that idea literally. It mixes melee combat with rhythm in virtual reality, pitting you against hordes of sword-wielding fighters you’ll need to parry, slash, and crush to stay alive, all to the beat of its dark, thumping soundtrack. Get your heart pumping in RAGER today with its Early Access launch on Meta Quest.
Survive a Spaceship Overrun with Monsters in ‘MEMOREUM,’ Launching Today on Meta Quest
Something has gone wrong aboard the UCT Century Dawn, transforming the human occupants of the colony ship into twisted, mutated fiends. It’s up to you — Dr. Otto Hudson — to find a cure and save humanity. But you can only do that if you can explore the ruined ship, avoid the frightening creatures, and keep yourself alive.
This is MEMOREUM, a horror shooter set in the far-flung future of 2311, launching today on Meta Quest. It begins at the end of the world, with humanity fleeing a ravaged Earth in search of a new home. The Century Dawn is a colony ship, which means it’s both huge and filled with people and animals sleeping in stasis pods. When you wake up from your own pod, you discover that all those sleeping folks have provided the infection known as the Ichor with plenty of material to make some horrifying creatures.
This is MEMOREUM, a horror shooter set in the far-flung future of 2311, launching today on Meta Quest. It begins at the end of the world, with humanity fleeing a ravaged Earth in search of a new home. The Century Dawn is a colony ship, which means it’s both huge and filled with people and animals sleeping in stasis pods. When you wake up from your own pod, you discover that all those sleeping folks have provided the infection known as the Ichor with plenty of material to make some horrifying creatures.
Get Creative and Learn About Robotics with ‘My Robot!’, Available Today on Meta Quest
For as long as there have been video games, there have been experiences that use the fun of games to teach valuable real-world skills — not just how to jump on turtles or slay demons. My Robot! continues that tradition in virtual reality, giving people the chance to build virtual robots that can then explore their physical environments.
Creepy Curated Content: Kick-Start Spooky Season with Meta Horizon+
Spooky Season is upon us, and Meta Horizon+ is ready with hand-picked, curated titles to get you into the Halloween spirit. From the mysterious, unfolding supernatural narrative of Ghost Town to the dark role-playing experience of Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice, if you need something creepy, Meta Horizon+ has you covered.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 — hands-on report
For the first time ever, Call of Duty fans are getting back-to-back Black Ops games with the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this year. Leaping ahead to the future of 2035, the game is a direct sequel to the story told in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 — but what’s really interesting is the way it builds on the foundation set by Black Ops 6, with its introduction of systems like Omnimovement and the return of round-based Zombies.
At Call of Duty: Next, I got a chance to jump into the combat b...
At Call of Duty: Next, I got a chance to jump into the combat b...
Swing, Fly, and Dash into Battle Against Giant Robots in ‘Titan Isles,’ Available Now on Meta Quest
One of the joys of virtual reality is the freedom it can offer, immersing us in incredible experiences like soaring through the air or swinging across vast distances. And that, combined with intense action as you battle against immense robotic adversaries, makes up the heart of Titan Isles.
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