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1 week ago | 
eurogamer.net | Christian Donlan
Published on May 9, 2025 Here's a more grounded Doom, but one that's as brisk and playful as ever. Heard about the changes to Doom? They've gone medieval with it, sort of. Also, they've added bowling. Sort of. Actually these two things are related. Doom: The Dark Ages is certainly a bit more medieval than you might have expected. The Doom Slayer's now dropped into a sort of techno-middle-ages.
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1 week ago | 
eurogamer.net | Christian Donlan
Every few weekends, my wife and I go for a drive in Los Santos. Itineraries vary. Sometimes we get a submarine and explore the oceans. Sometimes, inspired by shows like Million Dollar Listing and Selling Sunset, we head up to the Hills and have a pleasant in-game evening racing through rich people's backyards. My wife knows the game much better than me, which makes for an unusual dynamic. I know Los Angeles, which Los Santos is based on, but she is far more familiar with Rockstar's version.
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2 weeks ago | 
eurogamer.net | Christian Donlan
Published on April 28, 2025 Ingenious and characterful, this immersive sim is an absolute delight - particularly when things go wrong. There's a library in Skin Deep that really isn't screwing around. It's in outer space for one thing, and for another its calm, ordered stacks are protected by fidgety electrical gates that zap you if you're trying to move through them with a book you haven't checked out. Check enough books back in, meanwhile, and you'll be rewarded with a gun.
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3 weeks ago | 
eurogamer.net | Christian Donlan
Published on April 24, 2025 Part management sim, part open-world adventure, this is both weird and familiar, and deeply comforting stuff. One of the loveliest books I've read in the last few years is J. L. Carr's short novel A Month in the Country.
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1 month ago | 
eurogamer.net | Christian Donlan
Published on April 7, 2025 A game about building and rebuilding an impossible mansion is also a game about our relationship to the places we live in. One of the things video games do really well is absence - specifically recent absence. Dump me into a game world and give me enough clues that someone else has just left and I'll be happy for hours.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Christian Donlan
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago | 
eurogamer.net | Christian Donlan
Lovely performances elevate a movie that captures Minecraft's many bits and pieces but not its creative spirit. If you ever find that you've fallen asleep in a big-shot Hollywood story meeting, and you need something to say that makes it look like you've actually been paying close attention, you could do worse than this. "Whose story is this again?" This question - who is the true focal point of the adventure being pitched?
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1 month ago | 
eurogamer.net | Christian Donlan
One thing's clear. The Switch 2 is launching into a very complex environment. Just a look at today's Nintendo Direct, or rather the comments scrolling on the side of the IGN feed over on YouTube. Someone wants a proper 3D Donkey Kong game. Someone else wants Waluigi in Smash. Someone wants Jet Set Radio - I promise that one was not me - someone else wants a full-blown sequel to Twilight Princess. Actually, looking at the Nintendo Direct itself, you can see a bit of that complexity.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Christian Donlan
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago | 
eurogamer.net | Christian Donlan
Harlan Ellison used to say that I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream was a game that nobody could win. I gather now, having looked at a few wikis, that this is not entirely true. But back in the mid-1990s when I first encountered this weird, horrifying video game, it certainly felt true. I Have No Mouth was... not a hit, exactly, but certainly the subject of a sustained mania in my student house at the tail end of the last century.
