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Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Ubisoft’s open-world model was made for Vikings.

3d World Inspired By '90s Game Box Clay Dioramas

Cobysoft Co’s monster-collecting visual novel is a glimpse into a gorgeous, chimerical 3D world inspired by ’90s game box clay dioramas – but made purely with software

Unreliable Narrator

Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales

Weird science

Meet Playables, the production company quietly behind the coolest interactive experiments going

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Turbo charge

Analogue announces Duo, a new console for NEC’s PC Engine family

MOTION TWIN

The French cooperative that’s getting bigger and smaller at the same time

Death Stranding

Kojima’s post-apocalyptic Pat might have delivered the message of hope 2020 needs

DUE PROCESS

The joke is that you don’t get it

DREAM TEAM

The Xbox Series goes double or quits on a player-first approach that could be the dark horse of the next generation

CHORUS

Space shooting with an unusually oppressive atmosphere

Orwell's Animal Farm

Nerial’s videogame adaptation has certainly got legs – but how many?

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Why EAD Tokyo’s ageless platformer may still be Mario’s finest hour

MILITSIONER

In post-Soviet Russia, you watch Big Brother

LITTLE NIGHTMARES 2

Tarsier’s grisly bedtime fable escapes to the big city

Pay to win

As confusion reigns around new consoles, Microsoft’s money makes the clearest statement of the generation so far

HOOD: OUTLAWS & LEGENDS

The creators of Eve Valkyrie blend folklore with heist movie

LAB RAT

Kine’s creator returns with a lockdown-inspired puzzler

GOING DUTCH

As they call time on indie studio Vlambeer, Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman reflect on their remarkable ten-year journey

CREEPY JAR

On leaving the big leagues and surviving the wilds of indie game development

BRIGHT FUTURE

With Beyond Light, Bungie reshapes Destiny 2 for a new generation

My Favourite Game Mike Shinoda

The Linkin Park frontman on his love of Nintendo, obsession with drawing Mega Man and tour-bus Halo sessions

TWIN MIRROR

Dontnod’s narrative mystery redoubles the mind games

Spelunky 2

Environments are alive with detail, better disguising the game’s tilebased nature

Shaping the future

Meet the studio making Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, a Jet Set Radio revival with street culture sincerity

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

NUTS

A squirrel-infested forest harbours unsettling implications

MARVEL'S AVENGERS

Earth’s mightiest heroes aren’t looking so super

REMEDY ENTERTAINMENT

From Max Payne to Control: how one studio stayed true to its obsessions for 25 years

Quantum Break

Remedy’s game-television hybrid is a product of its time, for better and worse