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Past articles by Samuel:

Every Bar In Red Dead Redemption 2, Reviewed

Red Dead Redemption 2’s saloons are the hubs of their towns. Whether you want a full belly, a quick drink, a place to stay the night or even a haircut, you’ll find a saloon to meet your needs. I’ve spent tens of hours in them over the course of my playthrough, downing whiskey and flirting with the locals. Here’s a review of every saloon in Red Dead Redemption 2. → Read More

10 years on, here’s how Dead Space went from horror to action horror in three games

The first Dead Space turned 10 years old last month. It took me a month to get through the first two hours when I first played it. Every time I jumped back in → Read More

Clear 100 hours in your calendar, ‘cos CRPGs are here to stay

Games like Divinity: Original Sin 2 are keeping the genre relevant in an era when players are time poor, and have a lot of games to choose from. → Read More

Four developers of scary games explain how to make scary games very scary indeed

Making a good horror game like Alien: Isolation takes a careful mix of sound design, lighting, jump scares, and not telling the player everything. → Read More

The Joy of Oxenfree’s natural dialogue system

Few games nail the ebb and flow of conversations like Oxenfree, the supernatural drama about a group of teenagers on a deserted island. The cast speak over one → Read More

Wot I Think – Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark Survival Evolved is a multiplayer dino-hunting/riding, craft-and-build action game that's long been in early access. Now it's out for real. Read our review. → Read More

Danganronpa V3’s free demo is suitably weird

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has a free demo ahead of its full launch on September 26, and it's about as weird as you'd expect. You're trapped inside a → Read More

FTL-y Shortest Trip to Earth blasts crowdfunding demo

One of the developers behind the rock solid top-down shooter Teleglitch: Die More Edition is working on an FTL-inspired spaceship roguelike that, judging by the → Read More

Where the Goats Are is a pretty, relaxing game about making cheese

I've just been clicking my way around Where the Goats Are , a pay-what-you-want one-hour story from developer Memory of God about an old lady, Tikvah, and her → Read More

That’s no planet: Lifeless Moon lands on Kickstarter

Lifeless Moon , the follow-up to exploration game Lifeless Planet, has launched a crowdfunding campaign. Where the first game was set in the far future 15 light → Read More

Steel Division: Normandy 44 due boatload of free content

The team behind World War II RTS Steel Division: Normandy 44 recently detailed everything that's coming to the game before the end of the year, including its → Read More

Tackle a huge beast under Times Square in latest Secret World Legends raid

Funcom have been slowly building up Secret World Legends – the revamped version of its conspiracy-laden 2012 MMO The Secret World – by taking bits of the old → Read More

LawBreakers getting new maps and competitive mode

Zero gravity FPS LawBreakers will add three new maps, new game modes and a new class before the end of the year, developers Boss Key Productions have announced → Read More

Explore an underworld mystery in Tokyo Dark

Crowdfunded murder mystery game Tokyo Dark launched this week, and looks pretty gorgeous. Publishers Square Enix describe it as "somewhere between a point → Read More

Arma 3’s humanitarian DLC drops from the sky

Arma 3's Laws of War DLC, which puts you in the role of a humanitarian aid worker, is out now. At the heart of the package is a mini-campaign that fills the → Read More

Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival slides onto PC this month

Top-down old school footy sim Dino Dini's Kick Off Revival shoots onto PC later this month. It's a modern take on Kick Off, the series that first arrived on → Read More

Steampunk dungeon crawler Vaporum slashes out this month

Grid-based dungeon crawler Vaporum first blipped our radar in 2015 when the team were looking for funding, and now the steampunk RPG is all shined up and ready → Read More

Luminous Corridor 0 is a fun arcade shooter

Luminous Corridor 0 is a top-down arcade shooter in which you run your 8-bit hero around a square screen, blasting away enemies and avoiding colourful → Read More

Pretty point-and-click 29 out later this month

29 tries to capture the emotional rollercoaster that is the last days of university: you're glad exams are over but, gulp, you actually have to start being an → Read More

Pikuniku is a colourful dystopian puzzler

The excellently-named Pikuniku might just be the most colourful dystopian adventure ever. You're a red blob with gloriously wobbly legs exploring a bright → Read More