Every Souls game starts off more or less the same way: You make your character, pick a class, and go through a short tutorial zone where you are given the most basic explanation for how the game works ...

Don't look to these in-game tutorials for help; despite their initial impressions, you'll soon realize that they were lying ...

Assassin's Creed III has such a soul-drainingly boring tutorial it actively lessens the quality of the entire game - because close to half of it is effectively one big, long tutorial. It's a tutorial ...

Everyone has a favourite video game tutorial. Maybe it's the first hour of Fallout 3, which quite literally treats you as a baby, teaching you new mechanics at different stages of growth? Perhaps it's ...

As hard as I’ve tried, I’ve never quite been able to wrap my head around traditional 2D fighting games. I’ve clicked with the fast pace of Super Smash Bros., but I’ve just never been able to hold my ...

Portal 2 sets a great standard for tutorials - it's funny and quick, and the patronizing nature of telling the player how to progress is explained in the narrative. Games have a lot of standard ...

Callum is a seasoned gaming managing editor for a number of publications and a gamer who will always try to shine a spotlight on indie games before giving AAA titles the time of day. He loves nothing ...

Tutorials might feel tedious in most games, but some titles bring a welcome twist to them. The best tutorials teach game basics and scale, like Skyrim's Prisoner Start. Iconic tutorials are fun and ...

Video game tutorials are a difficult art for developers to master - they're necessary to acquaint players with a game's specific mechanics and systems, but preventing them from coming off as dry or ...

The tutorial is one of the most important aspects of a game to nail. It's usually the first thing you'll see, and it needs to ...