Jay Allsopp

Dark and Darker is a pretty ingenious combination of genres. The game is simultaneously a fantasy dungeon crawler and a PvPvE-style multiplayer game in which you’re just as much at risk from other players as you are from environmental hazards. With that in mind, if you’re looking for an experience akin to Dark and Darker,

2048 is a rather unique and absorbing puzzle game, which, admittedly, makes writing a list of similar games somewhat difficult. If you’ve never played it, you should give it a shot; 2048 is fiendishly addictive, despite its simple setup, meaning you can easily lose hours of your life to it. However, if you’ve decided to

Horror gaming is a fine art, and it’s one that many developers have struggled to get right. Even developers working on games for major consoles and PC can stumble when it comes to creating compelling horror experiences, so how could browser-based games hope to compete? Quite handily, as it turns out. Here are the 20

Racing games fulfil a primal need inside all of us; they’re all about speed, and the best racing games give us an incredible adrenaline rush on that front. Thankfully, there are plenty of great racing games available out there, even if you don’t want to use dedicated PC or console hardware to play them –

When it comes to living out impossible fantasies, there are few game genres quite as successful as the flight simulator. Most of us will never get to fly an aircraft in real life, but thanks to flight simulators, we can get a taste of what it would be like to climb into the cockpit of

The PS5 may only have been on the market for three years (at time of writing), but it already has a handful of definitive racing game experiences to offer the connoisseur. Gran Turismo 7 is, of course, the last word in simulation racing on PS5, but the console also plays host to excellent racers like

The Meta Quest 3 is officially upon us, and it’s arguably the best VR headset you can buy right now. While it can’t quite match many of its competitors in terms of sheer power, it’s affordable, lightweight (for a VR headset, at any rate), and packed with great software. On that note, if you’ve just

If there’s one console that could be said to have the best racing games available on the market right now, it’s the Xbox Series X. While the PS5’s racing offerings are excellent, the Xbox Series X has many of the same multi-platform releases as Sony’s console, and it can also boast Playground Games and Turn

If you’re a racing fan and a PC gamer, then you owe it to yourself to pick up a truly excellent racing wheel. As any racing fan will tell you, racing wheels augment the simulation experience tremendously; you haven’t truly enjoyed a racing game until you’ve done so at the controls of a great racing

Popular culture has long been obsessed with vampires, and it’s pretty easy to see why. In some incarnations, vampires are dark, mysterious figures with an air of dangerous romance about them, while in others, they’re horrifying monstrosities that represent the worst instincts and aspects of humanity. If you’ve got a thirst for great vampire games,

The PS5’s DualSense is a wonderful controller, but there are many reasons you might want to pick up an alternative. For instance, your DualSense controllers might have stopped working, and you might be looking for a replacement that isn’t a first-party Sony option. Alternatively, you might be ready to spend some serious money in order

Gaming technology may have come on in leaps and bounds since its inception, but there are still few simple pleasures more satisfying than playing a game in your browser. Thanks to cloud gaming, it’s easier than ever to load up the latest triple-A experience within Chrome, Firefox, or any number of other browsers, and still