Gareth Brierley

Yep it's that time of year again and there is a new offering with NBA 2K20 on the Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC. So, will this new entry in the series deliver an attacking boost or will it flounder in defense? Well, it's available right now so we can find out.

If you're looking for an extra bit of challenge to your Cities: Skylines game then with Industries you're in for a treat.

In real life, dungeons are pretty gruesome, tightly cramped and tedious places. They were built in the medieval castles as prisons or torture chambers for common prisoners or political enemies. In the gaming world though, they have been the staple diet for the RPG adventure game since the dawn of gaming back in the early '80s. Torchlight II on Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch carries on this tradition of dungeon crawling and exploring with a sequel to the first game, Torchlight. Are you strong enough to brave the depths?

With Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise you can now have the opportunity to don a waterproof tuxedo, perfect the saucy quip and get ready to become a super agent. Will you accept this mission, agent?

Available to download right now on Xbox One, Decay of Logos takes you, Ada, on a fantastical adventure in the company of your best friend - a magical elk.

Man of Medan is one of those near must play titles, and I can't wait for the next instalment in The Dark Pictures Anthology.

I don’t know what the development team at Artifex Mundi are having for breakfast, but the speed they make games and put them out to their puzzle-solving hungry audience is nothing short of astonishing. They must be putting something special in their Weetabix in the morning as now we see another puzzler hit home, and it has to be said Path of Sin: Greed on Xbox One is yet another fascinating tale of intrigue and mystery.

Harry Potter has done a lot of good for the public image of Wizards. In the good old days, we always thought of wizards as grey old men, with huge beards that hadn't seen a shampoo bottle, as they stumbled around dungeons holding onto huge staffs so they don't fall over. Magic now - mostly thanks to the scar-faced bespectacled boy wonder - is very cool with quick wand battles and interesting story arcs. The Gift of Parthax on Xbox One is hoping to go the way of our boy Harry, and wow the world with its magic battles.

In the rules of magic, we know that creating fireballs and throwing them is generally a good thing, and raising an army of the dead to fight alongside you is pretty much frowned upon. It is however with these set of rules in mind that I fully prepared myself to enter the world of The Forbidden Arts, ready to master it all.

Aritana and the Twin Masks on Xbox One lets us go to a new place, using Brazilian mythology as its main influence

Aritana and the Twin Masks is a great little game to spend some solid hours in the company of and it will certainly make you smile.

Sagebrush comes about via a very small development team as they attempt to take us into the inner workings and ideology of a cult group, set in the desert of America and run by Father James.

Without doubt, this is a game that takes the crown for one of the strangest monikers of 2019. A point and click adventure from Daedalic Entertainment that was first released on PC in 2012, it's the sequel to another wonderfully titled affair Edna & Harvey: The Breakout. But what is it? Well, it’s Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes on Xbox One.

The arrival of Stellaris: Console Edition to Xbox One earlier in 2019 was a welcome one, particularly after seeing it garner a hugely successful time on PC. Now though it’s time to take things on to the next level, with the arrival of the Utopia Expansion.

The Church in the Darkness on Xbox One has me divided. On one hand, I love the concept, writing, and visual style. On the other, I pretty much hate the randomised elements, the permadeath, and a number of small gameplay annoyances.