Robert Purchese

A Flight Simulator 2024 screenshot showing a plane approaching a distant tornado beneath a brooding sky.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Planes

Winging it.

Nov. 20, 2024 Robert Purchese

A photo of an award on a table. The award is circular and stood up on a circular base. In the middle is what looks like a globe but actually it's a deconstructed controller that looks like a globe. Around it is green and blue, and the material looks to be stone of some kind. It's very pretty actually.

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Big changes for the Green Game Jam as it targets triple-A games

Planet toaster.

Nov. 20, 2024 Robert Purchese

Karate Survivor key art. It shows a six characters arranged in a V shape, facing the camera, with skyscrapers and two fists in the background, somewhat inexplicably. It's exactly the kind of image you'd see on a '90s Hong Kong action movie poster: young hero, muscular thugs, baseball bats, guns. There's gonna be some punching going down.

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Now Playing | This Vampire Survivors-like is a knock-out blend of Jackie Chan martial arts and the prop flinging of Yakuza

A black belter.

Nov. 17, 2024 Robert Purchese

A Lego Fortnite image showing a fishy Lego character holding a torch in a darkened area.

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What we've been playing - Lego horror, cheerful games, and others we just can't get into

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Nov. 16, 2024 Robert Purchese

Blizzard artwork showing the familiar sight of hulking green orcs facing off against grey plate-wearing, blue-plume helmeted humans. Will they ever be friends?

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Opinion | I love World of Warcraft, but I wish Blizzard would stop looking backwards

Job's done?

Nov. 15, 2024 Robert Purchese

An image - it could be a photograph - a vintage TV sit sat on a surface in the dark, emitting a snowy static glow.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: TVs

LED it be known.

Nov. 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

This could be a scene from a Japanese horror film, except it looks like a scene from an old adventure game. It's painted in two colours, one a kind of brown for the environment, and one in purple showing a hunched over girl holding the end of a bed, hair obscuring her face. She is out to get you.

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The anatomy of a scare: how do games frighten you?

Jump. Stare.

Nov. 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

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What we've been playing - Agatha Harkness, karate, and the Smurfs

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Nov. 9, 2024 Robert Purchese

A mysterious symbol showing an inverted black triangle with white, jagged lines cutting across it. Around it are yellow circles and mysterious glyphs or writing on concentric stone rings. It's from Dragon Age: The Veilguard's secret post-credits scene. What does it reference - the Executors?

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After The Veilguard's secret post-credits scene, where does Dragon Age go from here?

Yes, Executorly.

Nov. 8, 2024 Robert Purchese

A stock image of a colourful fireworks display. Reds and blues and golds and myriad other popping rockets fill the sky. It's very bright.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Fireworks

Bangers.

Nov. 7, 2024 Robert Purchese

A gruesome zombie with their head wrapped in bandages, lying on what looks like an operating table. The images is cartoon styled.

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What we've been playing - comments are back

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Nov. 6, 2024 Robert Purchese

A close-up image of a Speedball illustration. Two heavily padded almost American Football-like players clash. One rams an elbow and fist into a punky looking opposing player's face.

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Now Playing | Speedball is back from the dead, but don't get too excited

I scream, I scream.

Nov. 5, 2024 Robert Purchese

A photograph of a classic person-wearing-a-sheet ghost, but the sheet is almost black and the eyes are shining.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Ghosts

Ooh do they think they are?

Oct. 31, 2024 Robert Purchese

An illustration screen from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, showing the character Solas in front of a huge image of a multi-eyed wolf.

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BioWare knew the deepest secrets of Dragon Age lore 20 years ago, and locked it away in an uber-plot doc

Original creator David Gaider on how "some of the big mysteries are being solved".

Oct. 31, 2024 Robert Purchese

Dragon Age: The Veilguard antagonist Solas turns to the camera as a magical green explosion erupts around him.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard takes us into the Fade, but do we really want to know the secrets within?

Maker fuss.

Oct. 30, 2024 Robert Purchese

Bertie's feminine Rook from Dragon Age The Veilguard faces the camera with a concerned stare.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard review - the best BioWare game I've ever played

Howl about that.

Oct. 28, 2024 Robert Purchese

A character in a gloomy hallway stares at a dusty old grandfather clock.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Clocks

Big on tick tocks.

Oct. 16, 2024 Robert Purchese

The pixelated image of a hooded feminine figure standing, clad in creams and blues, in stark contrast to a dark green wooden wall behind them. They cut a notable triangular shape against it. It's a sweet but slightly haunting image.

Blog

Supporters | Yearly Supporters, we've got 100 Norco keys for you

A narrative darlin'.

Oct. 12, 2024 Robert Purchese

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Double-A Team | Vampyr was underrated - it's the best vampire RPG we've got

Strong points.

Oct. 12, 2024 Robert Purchese

A side-on shot of a Lada-like squarish car, without doors, sprayed black, on a tarmac forecourt surrounded by desert.

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What we've been playing - positivity practice, modern classics, and survival car games

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Oct. 11, 2024 Robert Purchese

Resident Evil 2's Mr X - a huge, broad shouldered figure clad in black trench coat, black leather gloves, black fedora, black rollneck - black everything. He's reminscent of wrestling's Undertaker, come to think of it, only without the long hair.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Coats or Jackets

Zip it.

Oct. 9, 2024 Robert Purchese

A zoomed out picture of Bertie's tower in Tiny Glade, a game about building castley things in a glade. It's dinky, like a toy, and it's really nicely designed. I mean, you'll have to take my word for that but if I were a castle-judging, um, judge, I would award this the grand prize. No I'm not Bertie how dare you! Quick, run!

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What we've been playing - castles and ultra-cool action

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Oct. 4, 2024 Robert Purchese

An Animal Crossing: New Horizon screenshot. A small toy-like Animal Crossing character stands in a golden yellow and orange wooded area outside a dinky little house. Autumn is here.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Autumns

Fall, guys.

Oct. 2, 2024 Robert Purchese

Podcast

Supporters | Podcast: What 25 years of Eurogamer means to us

Reads like an Essential.

Oct. 1, 2024 Robert Purchese

Violet, a young witch from The Plucky Squire, leaps into action with her paintbrush wand.

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What we've been playing - monkey epics, vampire masquerades, and storybook adventures

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Sept. 27, 2024 Robert Purchese