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2 days ago | gamespew.com | Kim Snaith

Gust’s and Koei Techmo’s Atelier series has been running since the 1990s, with no less than 25 mainline games now available. You can double that when you add side games and re-releases into the mix. In other words, then, the Atelier series is a force to be reckoned with. But what are the best Atelier games of all time? The earliest games never got a release in the West, with the first five Atelier games being available in Japan only.

2 days ago | gamespew.com | Kim Snaith

Who doesn’t love a surprise? Today, developer Frogwares has announced a surprise remaster of The Sinking City on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC — and better yet, it’s free to anyone who already owns the game on those formats. When we reviewed The Sinking City on PS5 back in 2021, we said it looks “absolutely beautiful”. Not a game that we’d think would need a remaster, then. Except now, it looks even more beautiful than it did before.

3 days ago | gamespew.com | Kim Snaith |Richard Seagrave

Is this going to be the most eclectic list of games for couples you’ve ever seen? Perhaps, but they’re all tried and tested by us, a real couple who spend a lot of their time together playing video games. Sure, it’s our job, but we still play them for fun too. We’ve rounded up eight of the best games for couples on PlayStation Plus Extra below – and not all of them are co-op or multiplayer games. Hear us out, but some single-player games are excellent for couples to play together, too.

3 days ago | gamespew.com | Kim Snaith

Survivors-like games are all the rage these days, and so it’s no surprise that Ocean Keeper caught my attention. After all, I’ve had a blast destroying hordes of vampires in Vampire Survivors, fighting the forces of evil in 20 Minutes Till Dawn and downing zombies in Yet Another Zombie Survivors. Ocean Keeper offers its own twist on the formula, combining survivors-like gameplay with resource gathering. The result is a moreish, frenetic struggle for survival that I simply cannot get enough of.

5 days ago | gamespew.com | Chris McMullen

Borderlands 4 is going to be the biggest Borderlands to date, according to the CEO of developer Gearbox Software, speaking during a PAX East panel. That’s to be expected; with sequels there’s the expectation that they’ll take things to the next level. But what’s particularly intriguing is Pitchford’s boast that you go virtually anywhere. “There’s no load times. You see something, anywhere on the screen, a mile away, up in the sky, you will be able to get there,” he explains (via PC Gamer).