Best games coming out in 2016: Firewatch

Release date: 9 February 2016
Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, PS4
Available to pre-order on Steam here.

Firewatch is an upcoming first-person adventure game with a scary twist. You'll play as Henry, who is searching for two missing women. It's decision based, which different choices affecting the environment and possibly even the end result.

You can find out more in our full Firewatch article.

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Best games coming out in 2016: Street Fighter V

Release date: 16 February 2016
Available to pre-order from: ShopTo, GAME, Amazon
Platforms: PC, PS4

Street Fighter V was unveiled at the 2014 PlayStation Experience in Las Vegas, and will be exclusive for Windows and PS4. With some familiar, and rather surprising, characters to play, a revamped battle system, and graphics powered by the latest Unreal 4 engine.

Best games coming out in 2016: Far Cry Primal

Release date: 23 February 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, GAME, Zavvi
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC

Far Cry Primal is the latest game in the Far Cry series, and offers something totally different for fans. Gamers find themselves in the Monolithic era using spears and clubs to fight their enemies, whilst taming pre-historic animals to their advantage.

Best games coming out in 2016: Dues Ex: Mankind Divided

Release date: 23 February 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, GAME, Zavvi
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4

15 years after the launch of the original Deus Ex, Square Enix announced at E3 2015 that a new game is coming to the franchise. Mankind Divided is set in an open world in the year 2029, in which the decisions you make will tailor the story, and the ending can be different for each player.

Best games coming out in 2016: Hitman

Release date: 11 March 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, GAME, Zavvi
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4

Confirmed at E3 2015, a new Hitman game, also known as Hitman Agent 47, is coming this year. It's the sixth game in the series. Find out more by clicking here.

Best games coming out in 2016: Quantum Break

Release date: 5 April 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, GAME, Zavvi
Platforms: Xbox One

Exclusive to Xbox One, Quantum Break is an intriguing upcoming came that includes an episodic TV show that'll change depending on the decisions you make during gameplay.

Pushed back from 2015, we now know that Quantum Break will arrive in April, and we've gathered everything we know so far in our Quantum Break release date and rumours round-up.

Best games coming out in 2016: Dark Souls 3

Release date: 12 April 2016
Available to pre-order from: 365games, Amazon, Zavvi
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC

The third title in the famously difficult Dark Souls series, Dark Souls 3, is set to arrive in April. It's a third-person action role-playing game that has fewer maps than its predecessor but each is larger for more exploration, and the character builder has been expanded.

Best games coming out in 2016: Ratchet & Clank

Release date: 22 April 2016
Available to pre-order: Amazon, Argos
Platforms: PS4

We can't wait for the new Ratchet & Clank game, which will be a re-imagining of the original Ratchet & Clank that came out for PlayStation in 2002, but with some all-new weapons and some weapons and features you'll be familiar with from later games.

Best games coming out in 2016: Uncharted 4 A Thief's End

Release date: 26 April 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, GAME, Zavvi
Platforms: PS4

We are super-excited about Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. It's an upcoming third-person shooter that adds to the popular Uncharted series, following on from Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception but set three years after that game ended. Drake is joined by his apparently not-dead-after-all brother Sam as they attempt to solve a mystery involving pirates and, of course, hidden treasure.

Best games coming out in 2016: Star Fox Zero

Release date: 21 April 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, GAME
Platforms: Wii U

An exciting game coming from Nintendo this year is Star Fox Zero, the sixth instalment in the Star Fox series. It was due to be released in November of 2015 but was pushed back to April when it became clear that it wouldn't be ready on time.

The game is level-based and works with the Wii U GamePad, which you'll use to control the Arwing as it flies around shooting enemies.

Best games coming out in 2016: Overwatch

Release date: Spring 2016
Available to pre-order now from: Amazon, GAME, Zavvi
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Windows PC

Upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter Overwatch is set to make its way onto PS4s, Xbox One and Windows PCs within the first half of 2016, after a closed beta that took place in America and Europe in October 2015.

The game is set on Earth in the future, when robots threaten humanity. You'll play as one of six in a team, which will go head-to-head with a second team of six. You'll be able to choose your character's abilities and role classes, and you'll be required to work closely with your teammates to win.

Best games coming out in 2016: Battleborn

Release date: 3 May 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, GAME, ShopTo, Zavvi
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC

First-person shooter Battleborn is scheduled for release in 2016 and we're getting excited. It's a fun, colourful game that incorporates multiplayer online battle arena elements, set on a star called Solus where each species fled to in order to escape when their planets and stars were destroyed.

Best games coming out in 2016: Doom

Release date: 13 May 2016
Available for pre-order from: Amazon, GAME, Zavvi
Platforms: Xbox One, PS4, PC

Classic first person shooter Doom is getting a reboot with a new game set to arrive next year.

Best games coming out in 2016: Homefront: The Revolution

Release date: 20 May 2016.
Available to pre-order now from: Amazon, Gamestop, ShopTo, Zavvi
Platforms: Xbox One, PS4, PC, Mac

This open world first-person shooter is the sequel to the Homefront game, with its story taking place two years after the events in the original.

Best games coming out in 2016: Mirror's Edge: Catalyst

Release date: 26 May 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, EA, GAME, Zavvi
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC

The original free-running game Mirror's Edge came out on Xbox 360 and PS3 in November 2008, with mobile versions launched in 2010. The new Mirror's Edge was then announced in 2013 and Catalyst was originally supposed to be released on 25 February 2016, but we'll now have to wait until 26 May.

It should be worth the wait, though, with missions as well as puzzles and races to be completed in the city that's free for you to explore.

Best games coming out in 2016: Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens

Release date: 28 June 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, GAME
Platforms: PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and PC.

One of the most predictable things to follow Star Wars Episode 7 has been confirmed by Warner Bros. That's right, you'll be able to play through one of the biggest blockbuster movies of recent times in classic Lego video game form. This is the Lego game you are looking for.

Best games coming out in 2016: No Man's Sky

Release date: June 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, 365Games, ShopTo, GAME
Platforms: PS4, PC

No Man's Sky is an incredibly cool-looking sci-fi game that lets players explore and survive in an infinite procedurally generated universe. Planets and solar systems will be built as you play, and each will be different to the next.

Best games coming out in 2016: Dishonored 2

Release date: TBC 2016
Available to pre-order now from: Amazon, Base, Zavvi
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC

Bethesda used its first ever E3 2015 press conference to reveal that Dishonored 2 is set for a 2016 release. There's little information about the game at the moment, but you can find out everything there is to know so far in our Dishonored 2 article.

Best games coming out in 2016: Fable Legends

Release date: TBC 2016
Platforms: PC, Xbox One

Currently being tested via a beta programme, Fable Legends was originally set to arrive in October but still has yet to arrive. When it does, it will be free-to-play for all. It's a multi-player game that lets up to five players team up within the same storyline in a four versus one dynamic, where four heroes will fight against one villain.

Best games coming out in 2016: ReCore

Release date: TBC 2016
Available to pre-order now: Amazon, GAME, ShopTo
Platforms: Xbox One

Xbox One exclusive ReCore is a new action-adventure game set to arrive in the second half of 2016. The game follows the last few remaining humans on earth and their friendly robot companions, who together hope to tackle obstacles and enemy robots in an effort to rebuild humanity.

Best games coming out in 2016: Final Fantasy XV

Release date: TBC 2016
Available to pre-order now from: Amazon, GAME, Zavvi
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One.

The ever popular Final Fantasy franchise is set to be added to with a new game for the new generation consoles later this year, available to pre-order now. It's an open-world adventure that is the first of the numbered series to feature action-orientated combat in real time, and it looks amazing.

Best games coming out in 2016: Tom Clancy's The Division

Release date: TBC 2016
Available to pre-order now from: Amazon, GAME, The Hut
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC

Tom Clancy's The Division is one of the most talked about games right now, but the post-apocalyptic shooter doesn't have an official release date yet. See screenshots from The Division and find out what to expect from the game in our Tom Clancy's The Division round-up.

Best games coming out in 2016: Zelda for Wii U

Release date: TBC 2016
Available to pre-order now from: Amazon, Zavvi
Platforms: Wii U

Ok, you might have have a wait a while for this but it will be worth the wait, we hope. Although Nintendo has confirmed Zelda for Wii U, we still haven't got a solid release date aside from a very vague 2016 (it was 2015). find out more in our Zelda for Wii U release date, UK price, gameplay features article. We had to wait a long time for Mario Kart 8 and it was worthwhile, so we're sure the same will be true here.

Zelda for Wii U will be set in a completely open world and Nintendo's short teaser is enough to get us excited about the game.

Best games coming out in 2016: Horizon Zero Dawn

Release date: TBC 2016
Available to pre-order now from: Amazon, GAME, ShopTo
Platforms: PS4

We're really excited about Horizon Zero Dawn, an upcoming PlayStation exclusive from Guerrila Games. It's set 1,000 years into the future, when robotic creatures have taken over the planet. You'll play as bow-yielding heroine Aloy as she hunts the creatures and uses their machine parts to her advantage.

Best games coming out in 2016: For Honor

Release date: TBC 2016
Available to pre-order from: Amazon, GAME, ShopTo
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC

Medieval warfare game For Honor sees players take on the role of a Viking, Samurai or Knight, with each faction offering its own unique abilities. Unusually, players use controller's analogue sticks to control movements and actions in battle, demanding greater accuracy to be successful. You'll find out more in For Honor article.

Best games coming out in 2016: Vector

Release date: TBC 2016
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC

While many developers are focused on first-person shooters like Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 or open-world games like Fallout 4, developers Hello There are creating something different. Enter Vector, a futuristic racing game with a musical twist.

Best games coming out in 2016: Matterfall

Release date: TBC 2016
Platforms: PS4

Matterfall is an upcoming game for PS4 that has grabbed our interest. It follows an unexpected hero fighting for survival on a ravished sci-fi world infected by an alien material known as Smart Matter.

Best games coming out in 2016: Tekken 7

Release date: TBC 2016
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC

Set to be the last in the series, 20 years after the original Tekken was ported to the PlayStation, Tekken 7 is said to include the conclusion to the Mishima clan saga.

Best games coming out in 2016: Crackdown 3

Release date: TBC 2016
Platforms: Xbox One

Unveiled at Gamescom 2015 in August, Crackdown 3 is set to be one of the most exciting games on the horizon, showcasing some truly amazing technical advancements that make it stand out from the crowd. Intrigued? You should be.

Best games coming out in 2016: Detroit: Become Human

Release date: TBC 2016/2017
Platforms: PS4

Announced during Sony's Paris Games Week in October, Detroit: Become Human is an exciting upcoming sci-fi game created by Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls developer Quantic Dream.

Best games coming out in 2016: Scalebound

Release date: TBC 2016/2017
Platforms: Xbox One

At Gamescom 2015, developers Platinum Games unveiled Scalebound, the epic of two lonely characters, whose life is bound together until the end. Want to find out more about Scalebound and its world of dragons? Visit our Scalebound round-up.