
Oscar Taylor-Kent
Writer and Journalist at Freelance
Games Editor at GamesRadar+
Games Editor @GamesRadar, former PLAY editor & OPM dep ed Plus: Edge, @PCGamer, @waypoint, @GamesMaster, @OXM, SFX | [email protected] | He/Him
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1 week ago |
gamesradar.com | Oscar Taylor-Kent
Ever been jealous seeing someone start one of your favorite games for the first time, knowing that even if you replayed it you'd be too tainted by knowledge to ever go through the depth of feeling you cherished as it first blew you away?
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1 week ago |
gamesradar.com | Oscar Taylor-Kent
As the minutes before the Nintendo Switch 2's full reveal counted down, to fill the silence before the oncoming storm a colleague turned to me: "what game would truly sell you on the new console?" I sat down, leant back in my large gaming chair, and I looked out of the window at the sunny streets. "A followup to Super Mario Odyssey," I replied cooly. With that, the monkey paw curled. It became a fist. And then DK himself walloped me. Because, reader, Donkey Kong Bananza is that Super Mario Odyssey 2.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Oscar Taylor-Kent
3 hours ago The dollars make a little more sense when you consider the yen. When Nintendo announced the Switch 2 would cost $450, my initial reaction was disappointment. “Why does it cost so much more?” I thought to myself. “Why does Japan get it cheaper?” my brain jealously added, once I learned that Nintendo …
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1 week ago |
gamesradar.com | Oscar Taylor-Kent
They say the house always wins. That's something Morgan, the gambling-obsessed star in Of the Devil, from nth Circle Studios, knows all too well. A public defender, her goal isn't just to get her clients off the hook from the mountain of digitally-obtained evidence in this hyper-surveilled cyberpunk city, it's to know when to push just enough to create doubt, and when to keep her chips close.
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2 weeks ago |
gamesradar.com | Oscar Taylor-Kent
The beauty of a good open world is how it can transcend the traditional structure of a video game. Assassin's Creed Shadows, at times, leans into this in a way that manages to excite me a lot more than its predecessors. In Sonic I run from left to right to finish a stage. In Metropolis Street Racer (okay turn me to dust) I blitz past the finish line of each track. A good open world has missions, sure, but it's sometimes what occurs in those in-between moments that can be the most exciting.
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"This isn't going to stop her from securing a sizzling temple date for the ages." https://t.co/kw17e0HErU

Got the chance to speak to Masumi about portraying Naoe in Assassin's Creed Shadows! https://t.co/SmmApGYsHG

Blue Prince is a superb exploration roguelike like nothing else I've played - chill and taxing in equal measure, if, now and then, a tad fiddly. Another review from me! https://t.co/pJWKu42l0p