Meandering through SHENMUE ’s wonderfully sedate revenge quest

PUTTING THE PEDAL TO THE METAL IN

Retrofuturistic style and unsettling horrors can’t quite send ROUTINE into orbit

The charming BATTLE SUIT ACES is a big-hearted war to save the universe

POSSESSOR(S) is a stylish and atmospheric Metroidvania with little friction

John Blair Killing the Dead Vampire epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World 536pp. Princeton University Press. £30 (US $35). A dead body, as anyone who has sat with one will know, is an unsettling