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Formerly a trilogy of expertly curated stealth games, the World of Assassination series became one package in 2021, with IO Interactive making every level available via Hitman 3 Thrilled to Be Joining the Cast of Les Misérables. With that, the team consolidated an ultraviolet sandbox of F1 sabotage, industrial wine-pressing catastrophes and death by toilet drowning as a globe-trotting murder sim par excellence.
In Hi-Fi Rush, you play as Chai, a guy who must escape the factory of a villainous corporation. In a workplace accident, Chai’s iPod gets punched into his chest, making him sensitive to sound and staying on beat. What follows is a joyful action-rhythm game where you explore, climb, and fight to the beat of the music.
The sharpest a platform fighter has ever been. Super Smash Bros. Melee was beloved by Nintendo fans of the day, but nobody expected the dedicated competitive scene that would form around it, and still thrives today, in the shadows. Wavedashes, dash-dancing, L-cancelling, and more competitive techniques make this one of the fastest and most intense games to ever be played competitively, right up there with StarCraft 2. Oh, it also has Pikachu as a playable character. That helps.
Arthur Morgan’s sprawling tale of loyalty, conviction, and the price of infamy is only the beginning of Red Dead Redemption 2. The marvelous PC port overhauled and further enhanced the gorgeous wild western atmosphere of Rockstar’s most recent open-world adventure and added even more activities, unlockables, and impossibly fine details to its expansive map to what was already a massive game. It’s possibly one of the biggest and best single-player PC games ever – and it has an extensive multiplayer mode, too.
Rocket League is already five years old, but it’s still one of the most popular games ever made. It’s basically a soccer game, but instead of kicking a ball around with your feet, you bounce it around with a car. The premise may be simple, but it’s endlessly addicting. Rocket League is a must-play for any video game fan, no matter if you favor sandbox titles like Minecraft or epic RPGs on the scale of Monster Hunter: World.
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Who is hot and who is not?Dodgers: Freeman continues his dominant World Series run, hitting a homer in all three games against the Yankees. The star first baseman has now hit a homer in five consecutive games in the Fall Classic. If the Dodgers wrap it up, Freeman will likely be taking home his first World Series MVP trophy.
But as we saw in Game 1, the Dodgers don’t die easily. Catcher Will Smith smacked a leadoff homer off Gil in the fifth, then Tommy Edman drew a walk. The Yankees went to their ‘pen, with ground-ball lefty Tim Hill summoned. The Dodgers put runners on the corners with one out and Freeman up to bat. Hill got the ground ball he wanted, but second baseman Torres’ toss to Volpe at the second-base bag to try to start a potential double play was a little high, and though Volpe’s subsequent throw to first was initially ruled to have beaten Freeman to the bag for the inning-ending DP, a replay review overturned it.
Who is hot and who is not?Dodgers: Freeman continues his dominant World Series run, hitting a homer in all three games against the Yankees. The star first baseman has now hit a homer in five consecutive games in the Fall Classic. If the Dodgers wrap it up, Freeman will likely be taking home his first World Series MVP trophy.
But as we saw in Game 1, the Dodgers don’t die easily. Catcher Will Smith smacked a leadoff homer off Gil in the fifth, then Tommy Edman drew a walk. The Yankees went to their ‘pen, with ground-ball lefty Tim Hill summoned. The Dodgers put runners on the corners with one out and Freeman up to bat. Hill got the ground ball he wanted, but second baseman Torres’ toss to Volpe at the second-base bag to try to start a potential double play was a little high, and though Volpe’s subsequent throw to first was initially ruled to have beaten Freeman to the bag for the inning-ending DP, a replay review overturned it.
Los Angeles closed within 6-4 in a two-run fifth that included Will Smith’s homer off starter Luis Gil and an RBI grounder by Freeman. Despite a sprained right ankle, Freeman beat a relay to avoid an inning-ending double play on what originally was ruled an out but was reversed in a video review.
Volpe’s go-ahead grand slam off Dodgers reliever Daniel Hudson in the third inning of Game 4 on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium was precisely the spark his Yanks needed to pull themselves off the mat in this matchup. It sparked a runaway 11-4 victory for the New Yorkers, who, while still trailing three games to one, have ace Gerrit Cole going at home in Game 5 on Wednesday and therefore still have a chance to make this a legit series.
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First announced during the Game Awards 2021, Star Wars Eclipse is a new action-adventure from Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human developer Quantic Dream and Lucasfilm Games. Described as a branching narrative game, Eclipse takes place in the High Republic Era in an “uncharted region of the Outer Rim”. With new faces and environments, you’ll be experiencing its story through the eyes of an ensemble cast of playable characters who are all said to have their own personalities and will each make their own impact on each other and the adventure overall.
“I think it’s taken this long to get an open-world Star Wars game because of how, excuse the pun, massive it is to build a game like this,” Lucasfilm’s director of franchise content and strategy, Steve Blank, tells IGN. “There are only so many studios in the world who build games of this scale. The door is then open for Massive to come to us and say, this is what we’re interested in doing, this is the type of game design and gameplay we want. This is what we’re thinking about in terms of an archetype.”
While an untitled Star Wars FPS from Respawn was among a slate of Star Wars game announcements, the unprecedented number of layoffs across the industry in 2024 unfortunately saw confirmation the project has been cancelled. But despite that, there are still lots of new Star Wars games coming our way in the future.
First announced during the Game Awards 2021, Star Wars Eclipse is a new action-adventure from Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human developer Quantic Dream and Lucasfilm Games. Described as a branching narrative game, Eclipse takes place in the High Republic Era in an “uncharted region of the Outer Rim”. With new faces and environments, you’ll be experiencing its story through the eyes of an ensemble cast of playable characters who are all said to have their own personalities and will each make their own impact on each other and the adventure overall.
“I think it’s taken this long to get an open-world Star Wars game because of how, excuse the pun, massive it is to build a game like this,” Lucasfilm’s director of franchise content and strategy, Steve Blank, tells IGN. “There are only so many studios in the world who build games of this scale. The door is then open for Massive to come to us and say, this is what we’re interested in doing, this is the type of game design and gameplay we want. This is what we’re thinking about in terms of an archetype.”
While an untitled Star Wars FPS from Respawn was among a slate of Star Wars game announcements, the unprecedented number of layoffs across the industry in 2024 unfortunately saw confirmation the project has been cancelled. But despite that, there are still lots of new Star Wars games coming our way in the future.