Oli Welsh

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Oli Welsh·May 5, 2026

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And it's also scary and hilarious

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Oli Welsh·Apr 21, 2026

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It's cool that Lilith is back but where's my loot?

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Oli Welsh·Mar 16, 2024

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In the early ’80s, this man was making up to 12 unhinged games a year

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Oli Welsh·Feb 14, 2024

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Donkey Kong ’94 is the really good stuff

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Oli Welsh·Oct 4, 2023

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Forza Motorsport is serious business. Put the time in, Turn 10 is saying; do your laps, shave off the seconds, make that one small tweak, grind out that win. I respect its focus, and its refusal to pander to fun-addled Horizon players, instead offering them a clearly articulated invitation to join its more austere church. This is a game about going round in circles, a little bit faster every time, and it’s quite unapologetic about it.

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Oli Welsh·Nov 10, 2022

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Yasumi Matsuno’s classic story of war can be a slog

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Oli Welsh·Apr 30, 2022

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Zen and the art of understatement in game design

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Oli Welsh·Mar 2, 2022

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Aging gracefully, Polyphony’s racing series has never seemed more like itself

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Oli Welsh·Nov 4, 2021

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Playground Games delivers yet another gorgeous and enveloping pocket holiday, smartly restructured but reassuringly unchanged.

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Oli Welsh·Oct 5, 2021

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You can't fault the craft of this painstaking remaster, and the game itself still has an ornery magnetism - but Diablo 2 is showing its age at a difficult momen

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Oli Welsh·Dec 22, 2020

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A far-out new expansion and major levelling revamp see Blizzard's veteran online world riding a new wave of popularity.

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Oli Welsh·Jun 12, 2020

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Can a slick, mainstream action game really reckon with the violence that drives it? The answer is yes - messily, but powerfully.

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Oli Welsh·Nov 1, 2019

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Hideo Kojma's first post-Metal Gear game is a messy, indulgent vanity project - but also a true original.

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Oli Welsh·Aug 21, 2019

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The creator of Her Story explores its ideas further in a broader, deeper, more unruly video mystery.

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Oli Welsh·Feb 26, 2019

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Beautiful, broken, with flashes of brilliance, BioWare's stab at the shared world shooter epitomised by Destiny is a disorganised mess in search of a reason to