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PREVIEW | CLUTCH | OPEN-WORLD RACING ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA

A racing game set on the French Riviera already starts with a strong image. Sun, coastline, expensive roads, sharp corners, old money, illegal night races, polished machines and that strange line where professional motorsport and street culture can start looking too close to each other. It is the kind of location that can feel beautiful in daylight and completely different once the lights go down. That contrast gives Clutch a useful starting point before the first...

PUBLISHED | 26.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | FALSE ECHO | WAR IS IN THE WIRES AND LIES

A radio room buried under the Atlantic can be more frightening than a battlefield. No open sky, no clean information, no easy hero moment. Just paper, cables, signals, orders, pressure, and the quiet knowledge that every message you touch may change someone’s fate. False Echo understands that kind of tension. It does not look like a game built around speed or spectacle. It looks like a game built around procedure, suspicion and the slow damage of working...

PUBLISHED | 23.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | THE DEFIANT | WWII FPS MOVES TO A DIFFERENT FRONT

The Defiant immediately stands out because it does not begin from the usual World War II shooter memory. It is not another return to Normandy, another Western European campaign, or another familiar tour through the same battlefields that PC shooters have revisited for decades. Instead, Haotang Technology and 4Divinity are pointing the camera toward China’s War of Resistance against Japan, a setting that has been far less visible in mainstream...

PUBLISHED | 22.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | THE LAST CARETAKER | THIS ONE DESERVES ATTENTION

The survival-crafting genre is crowded enough that every new game has to answer one simple question very quickly: why should anyone care? Not every project manages that. Some arrive with the same trees, the same rocks, the same hunger bar, the same crafting table and the same feeling that you have already played this loop under a different name. The Last Caretaker looks different because it does not seem built only around staying alive. It is built...

PUBLISHED | O6.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | MANDRAKE | FARMING, FOLKLORE & STRANGE ROOTS

Mandrake looks like the kind of game that does not need to shout to become interesting. On the surface, it is a rural life sim with gardening, fishing, gathering, decorating, villagers and a slower daily rhythm, but the name behind it changes the whole temperature. This is Failbetter Games, the studio known for Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, so even when the game looks calm, it is hard not to expect something stranger hiding under the soil. Mandrake...

PUBLISHED | O5.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE | THE SKY HAS HISTORY

Flying games always hit a little differently when airplanes are already somewhere in your blood. Maybe that sounds dramatic, but it is true. When there is a pilot in the family history, when old aircraft stories sit somewhere in the background, when the shape of a plane in the sky still pulls the eye for no practical reason, Ace Combat immediately has a head start. It is not a full simulator, and it has never pretended to be one. That is part of its charm. Ace...

PUBLISHED | O4.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | STAR WARS: GALACTIC RACER | FAST, DUSTY & LAWLESS

Star Wars games have spent a lot of time with lightsabers, blasters, Jedi drama, and large cinematic stories, so a new racing game already feels like a welcome shift in direction. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is not trying to sell itself as another chosen-one adventure or another Force-powered spectacle. It is going back to one of the most underrated parts of the universe: speed, danger, noisy machines, dirty tracks, and the kind of racing culture that always felt like it...

PUBLISHED | O1.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | WITCH OF THE DARK CASTLE | A HANDMADE RPG BOOK

Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle feels like the kind of PC RPG that does not try to win attention by being louder than everything around it. It goes the other way. It looks small at first glance, almost quiet, built around pages, choices, stats, illustrations, and that old fantasy feeling where a sword, a spell, and a bad decision can carry an entire adventure. Developed by veteran artist Yoshio Nishimura, known for work connected to Vanillaware titles such as Odin...

PUBLISHED | II9.O5.IIO26

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PREVIEW | DIRECTIVE 8020 | HORROR SCI-FI WITH HUMAN DOUBT

Space horror works best when the danger is not only outside the ship, but already walking through its corridors. That seems to be the core idea behind Directive 8020, Supermassive Games’ next big narrative horror project and the newest entry connected to The Dark Pictures line. Instead of another haunted location, cursed object, or grounded nightmare, this one moves the formula into deep space with the crew of the Cassiopeia, a mission that starts as...

PUBLISHED | O6.O5.IIO26

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PREVIEW | CORSAIR COVE | TIGHT SPACE & SMARTER PLANNING

Corsair Cove doesn’t waste time trying to impress with scale or spectacle. What stands out first is how differently it approaches space. Most city builders spread wide, slowly filling the map with structures and systems. Here, growth feels tighter, more controlled, almost compressed because expansion isn’t just horizontal. You’re building upward, stacking functions, and constantly rethinking how limited space should be used. That single shift already changes the...

PUBLISHED | 2I.O4.IIO26

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