Look at us! Who would have thought that after eleven months of lows, middles and incredible highs we’d up here? Not me! The year, she is almost over like Grover. After a few months that included the likes of Pokémon, Star Wars and Death Stranding, December is usually the cigarette you light up as you bask in the afterglow of a hot and steamy session with big budget games.

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels was shaping up to be a fascinating advert for Netflix’s hit series, but the overall quid pro quo bend of strategy ultimately makes it the shallowest of tie-ins. This is one Search Bloc party that you can count me out for.

Even if you plug a hundred hours into Pokémon Sword and Shield, you may never see a Shiny Pokémon outside of that one bloke who imported all of his rare critters into the game from back in the day when he exploited the QR code functionality of Pokémon X and Y. That guy totally isn’t me. There are ways to get a Shiny Pokémon though, primarily through breeding and wild encounters.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior has always seemed like the bastard step-child to the super Sniper Elite franchise. Polish developer CI Games’ last game, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 did little to change that perception. While the tactical shooter offered an open world, it offered little interesting or new and suffered from a raft of technical issues. With that in mind, I didn’t really expect to enjoy Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts at all.

Pokémon Sword and Shield is everything that you love about pocket monsters and then some. With an emphasis on sharpening what works and ditching more bloated elements aside to create the best region yet for the franchise, Pokemon Sword and Shield is pocket monster catch ‘em all mania at its very best.

Here’s where you can find every TM in Pokemon Sword and Shield.

There’s a story behind every action figure or doll you’ve ever owned, a rise and fall of empires and visionaries that created a secret history behind the scenes of pop culture’s greatest icons. The Toys That Made Us is a celebration of epic collections and the riskiest gambles ever taken, with season 3 of the documentary series dialling up the nostalgia to find the humanity that created massive toy empires. That it can do that with a laser-sharp wit and a burning passion, is a testament to the power of toys.

If you’re looking for a new twist on old favourites, then here you go: A complete guide to evolving familiar faces into brand new forms in Pokemon Sword and Shield.

A new adventure kicks off today in Pokémon Sword and Shield, and if you’re looking for an easy guide on just how much work you’ll need to put into evolving your critters, fear not! Let our guide show you the way.

When I was young, I played an awful lot of Maxis’ SimAnt, a simulation game that put you in role of a single ant within a colony of black ants in the back yard of a home. The goal there was to spread throughout the garden, fighting the red ants as you tried to drive the humans out of their …

Following a tease or two, Microsoft is ready to kick off X019 with a brand new slate of games! I’ll be covering the event and updating this post as necessary, so sit back and relax with your F5 key in hammering distance so you can see all the reveals from the Xbox celebration.

We’ve seen plenty of highs throughout 2019, from Sekiro through to John Wick Hex. We’ve seen big games win massively, humble indie attempts go mainstream and plenty of winners from across the board. We’re not here for that though. We’re here to scrape the barrel, find a secret door on the bottom and open it to reveal another grimy layer of horrid design beneath that, as we get our hands dirty. So what were the ten worst games of the year then?