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Hooded Garrett draws a bow in front of dark rooftops and a street lamp.
Ears against the door

A guard's footsteps tell on him in Thief Remastered

Follow a patrol by ear, then send a guard the wrong way with a noisemaker arrow.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 8 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Cutaway of a campervan with lit lamps, a bunk and an orange cat on the table
Katherine keeps the lights on

Home on wheels in The Road of Dust and Sorrow

A lit campervan, a roadside diner and a girl who wants to leave pictures for the next traveller.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 7 Nov 2026 · 4 min read
Jason Duval holds a pistol beside a chain-link fence, with police lights behind him.
Most anticipated / Updated weekly

The most anticipated games of 2026 and 2027

Vice City is close, Layton has a new case and Link is back in Hyrule. Find release dates, platforms and trailers for 25 games.

GamerGuru Most Wanted Desk · 8 Oct 2026 · 20 min read
Private Park sits in a military vehicle wearing South Korean uniform in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.
A campaign on two fronts

Private Park is the soldier to watch in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

Price is hunting a superweapon; Park and his conscripted squad must retake their own cities.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 25 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
LEGO Batman stands in front of Gotham's rain-soaked skyline and a glowing bat signal
Licensed games / Adaptation design

LEGO Batman turns familiar scenes into a playground

The best Batman adaptations give a familiar moment something new to do with the player in it.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 17 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
Glimmer shines a burning matchstick at a small doorway in a skull-shaped structure in Well Dweller.
Metroidvania design / Movement upgrades

Well Dweller wants its movement upgrades to change the whole map

A developer's self-critique of Crypt Custodian makes Well Dweller's glowing matchstick much more interesting.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 15 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A small mouse wearing a stitched backpack jumps through a garden beside a cottage.
Co-op adventure / PC and console

Hela's magic backpack needs to make its co-op world worth sharing

Hela's backpack gives every mouse a movement language. The question is whether its open world makes that language social.

GamerGuru Previews Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Four cartoon cats face a line of monsters on a grid-based battlefield in Mewgenics.
Tactics and legacy / Mewgenics

Mewgenics sends every battle back to the house

Its house gives every risky expedition a history that the next cat party has to live with.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A bull shark swims in a fountain beneath a giant Neptune statue at an elaborate island theme park.
Design feature / Maneater 2

Maneater 2 turns a theme park into a shark's food chain

The sequel's theme-park setting can make eating, exploring and evolving feel like one escalating act of vandalism.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
A traveller climbs a ruined stone structure above the clouds on the branches of the World Tree.
Action design / Where the Seeds Fall

Where the Seeds Fall makes every descent a landing puzzle

A flower thrown before a leap could give CygamesEdge's platformer a much sharper kind of vertigo.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read

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