Oli Welsh-Senior Editor, U.K.

Oli Welsh

January, 2022
World of Warcraft, Forza Horizon 6, Grand Theft Auto 6
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About Oli Welsh

Oli Welsh has been covering the business and culture of video games for two decades. He started out writing for Edge and other publications (specializing in MMOs and Blizzard, as cover for his World of Warcraft playtime) before joining Eurogamer, where he worked for 14 years as reviews editor, deputy editor, and editor-in-chief; Eurogamer won many Games Media Awards during his tenure. At Polygon, he writes about film and TV as well as games, and provides news, analysis, and criticism on the entertainment we love and the industries that make it, all from his home in London. He loves role-playing, racing, puzzles, tactics, exploration, storytelling, Nintendo, mysteries, spies, fantasy, reality, cars, and classic cinema. He wanted to be a movie critic when he grew up, and now he’s definitely grown up, and occasionally is one. He considers this a win.

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Maki and Omura, two cute anime characters in spacesuits
Orbitals is the best co-op game since It Takes Two and the best platformer since Astro Bot

Shapefarm makes this demanding genre harder, better, and more fun

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Switch 2 officially has 2 exclusive GOTY contenders this September

And more must-play games besides in one of the console's busiest release months yet

The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past key art cropped showing Geralt holding a new sword in front of some sort of monster
Maybe it's a good thing AAA games take 13 years to make

GTA 6 is sucking up all the oxygen, but nobody told The Witcher 3

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Pacific Drive - a car idles on a quiet trail in the Pacific Northwest, preparing for a trip into the dark, foggy woods and the mysterious beyond
This driving survival roguelike is one of the great video game mash-ups

Pacific Drive, on Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, is a banger in more ways than one

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Lucia Caminos from GTA 6 wears sunglasses during the nighttime.
Was the GTA 6 Extended Look a show of Rockstar's confidence or hubris?

The game looked familiar, but this unveiling certainly didn't

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a patchwork of game covers from the SNES Classics app on Nintendo Switch Online
The 10 best SNES games to play on Nintendo Switch Online

There's never been a better run than this

A very young Ewan McGrego with long hair and a bloodied nose and shirt
Ewan McGregor's second movie might still be his darkest

In the pitch-back comedy thriller Shallow Grave, everyone sucks

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The Wizard, Barbarian, and Demon Hunter from Diablo 3 stand back to back
Diablo 3 is still the best Diablo and I will die on this hill

On console, it's also one of the best local co-op games of all time

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GTA 6 leak and Wolverine rage are symptoms of gaming’s summer of hate

Gamescom and the September deluge can't come soon enough

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SNES Classic preview
30 years ago, one console and two games changed my life

Without my Nintendo epiphany, I wouldn't be writing about games 30 years later

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Old Snake glares into the camera, cigarette in mouth and rifle in hands
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 reviews hail the return of the divisive MGS4

Critics leap at the chance to dig into Guns of the Patriots, one of Hideo Kojima's thorniest and weirdest games

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A GTA 6 character standing on a boat
GTA 6 is too big for these leaks to hurt it

Rockstar will be infuriated, but it's more insult than injury

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Wolverine leans over a bar in a cowboy hat, chatting to Mystique
Marvel's Wolverine's director finally addresses that huge Insomniac hack

Wolverine director says hack was 'a tough time' but 'we were able to keep going'

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The Truman Show is more than just prophetic

The 1998 Jim Carrey masterpiece predicted the century of reality TV and social media, but it has a deeper spiritual resonance

mission impossible
Mission: Impossible set up 8 films and 30 years of Tom Cruise's mania in 30 perfect minutes
FYI

You haven't seen him when he's upset. And you never will again.

Wolverine, claws out, jumps at enemy soldiers
'He's not anchored to a particular place': Marvel's Wolverine director explains the game's linear gameplay

Open-world 'not really the best fit' for the character, Insomniac says

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Wolverine with no mask on looks thoughtfully into the distance
Marvel's Wolverine nails the character, but not much else

Has Insomniac been more focused on making a good Wolverine experience than a good video game?

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An abstract angled shot of the PS5 Pro against a black background
Everything we know about PlayStation 6, Sony’s next-gen console

Here’s what we know, what we think we know, and what we don’t

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Jack Reacher
Prime Video's Reacher owes everything to this underrated Tom Cruise thriller

And it's free on Tubi

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Cover art of 80s robots zapping each other
5 perfect '80s games nobody remembers — but they need a comeback

Unearth these classics from the 8-bit era

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