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Underrated hack 'n' slash Blades of Fire heads to Steam with a 2.0 update, bringing new game plus and 'expanded death and mutilation variations' for you sickos out there

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The TechRadar Gaming team picks our most underrated and overlooked games of 2025

The TechRadar Gaming team picks our most underrated and overlooked games of 2025

It has been a huge year for gaming, but so many games have unfortunately gone a little bit overlooked. Here’s our picks for the most underrated games of 2025.

Metroid games ranked, worst to best

Metroid games ranked, worst to best

Short on time and looking to get ready for Metroid Prime 4 later this year? We've ranked all the Metroid games so you can focus on the must-plays.

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After over 30 hours in Blades of Fire, I’ve come to appreciate the retro charm of forging my blade

Blades of Fire has a retro simplicity that hugely appeals and makes for a fine blacksmithing adventure.

Blades of Fire review: if Jim Henson had made Conan The Barbarian – and it's as wonderfully weird as that sounds

Finally, an original Soulslike.

How Blades of Fire flies in the face of modern video game aesthetics

MercurySteam's Enric Álvarez reveals how Frank Frazetta and Gustave Doré have influenced this new PS5 game.

After 3 hours, I'm impressed by how Blades of Fire smelts Dark Souls and Monster Hunter together to forge high-impact action into twisted new shapes

Hands-on | Three hours with MercurySteam's followup to the superb Metroid Dread – Blades of Fire is a soulslike strengthened in the fires of fun ideas

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Blades of Fire just showed off its first five minutes of gameplay, and I think it might be channelling God of War too heavily

Blades of Fire just showed off its first five minutes of gameplay, and I think it might be channelling God of War too heavily

Chaos Blades of Fire.

MercurySteam CEO discusses upcoming new IP Blades of Fire: 'We love third person action adventure games and we wanted to revisit the genre'

MercurySteam CEO discusses upcoming new IP Blades of Fire: 'We love third person action adventure games and we wanted to revisit the genre'

We go hands-on with the upcoming third person action adventure game Blades of Fire from developer MercurySteam and discuss it with the studio’s co-founder.

Blades of Fire plays like a lost Xbox 360-era mashup between God of War and Soulslikes, and it's coming from the studio behind Metroid Dread

Blades of Fire plays like a lost Xbox 360-era mashup between God of War and Soulslikes, and it's coming from the studio behind Metroid Dread

Preview | MercurySteam wants to put something "new on the table," and the result is a queen-killing adventure where you'll need to forge your own weapons

Blades of Fire is a God of War-style action game coming to PC from the creators of Metroid Dread, and it's almost definitely a spiritual successor to Severance

Blades of Fire is a God of War-style action game coming to PC from the creators of Metroid Dread, and it's almost definitely a spiritual successor to Severance

Launches May 22.

With Kojima Productions on board, 2010's Castlevania Lords of Shadow remains one of the action adventure dynasty's most intriguing installments

With Kojima Productions on board, 2010's Castlevania Lords of Shadow remains one of the action adventure dynasty's most intriguing installments

Opinion | 13 years on, it's safe to say Kojima Productions and MercurySteam vamped things up a few notches

'Dead Space 4' Needs to Redefine the Series Before We Get Another Remake

'Dead Space 4' Needs to Redefine the Series Before We Get Another Remake

The Dead Space remake is a phenomenal reimagining of a survival horror classic, but the series needs to move forward before looking to the past again.

The Best Metroid Games of All Time

The Best Metroid Games of All Time

Our ultimate ranking of the 10 best Metroid games to help you separate the wheat from the chaff

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