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Callahan's CROSSTIME SALOON

YOU'LL ENTER IT AS A STRANGER, AND YOU'LL LEAVE AS A FRIEND. JOIN ADVENTURE GAMING LEGEND JOSH MANDEL FOR A BEER OR TWO IN CALLAHAN'S CROSSTIME SALOON: A HILARIOUS, UNSUNG CLASSIC FROM THE LATER YEARS OF THE POINT-AND-CLICK ERA'S GOLDEN AGE...

HOGS OF WAR

TREMENDOUS TURN-BASED TACTICS AND VERY BRITISH HUMOUR BUILT HOGS OF WAR A CULT FOLLOWING IN THE YEARS AFTER IT FIRST BROUGHT BACON TO THE BATTLEFIELD. JOIN US ON A RECONNAISSANCE MISSION THAT YIELDS DEVELOPER INSIGHTS AND NEWS OF A REMASTER

LED STORM

CAPCOM'S ARCADE ARCHIVE IS SO STUFFED THAT FOR EVERY MEGA-HIT THERE ARE SEVERAL RELEASES THAT ARE REGULARLY OVERLOOKED. LED STORM IS ONE SUCH TITLE, AND THAT'S A SHAME BECAUSE IT'S A GREAT GAME - OR SHOULD WE SAY GAMES?

CALL OF DUTY

THE STORY OF CALL OF DUTY BEGINS NOT AT ACTIVISION, BUT IN THE BOSOM OF ITS CHIEF RIVAL, EA. THE LATTER PUBLISHER HAD TASKED A DEVELOPER NAMED 2015 INC WITH EXPANDING ITS TERRITORY ONTO PC WITH MEDAL OF HONOR: ALLIED ASSAULT

Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

How NEC's tiny console successfully pulled off the task of hosting the world's biggest fighting game

The Making Of Karateka

Game preservation has just gone up a level

Streets Of Rage

FIGHT TOGETHER, FIGHT FOREVER

Space Giraffe

MORE THAN JUST A TEMPEST CLONE

DARK FORCES

WITH GEORGE LUCAS BUSY PLANNING THE NEXT STAGE OF HIS SCI-FI OPUS AND THE ALL-CONQUERING DOOM FRAGGING GAMERS EVERYWHERE, THE TIME WAS RIGHT FOR A FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER SET WITHIN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE. WITH A NEW REMASTER RECENTLY ANNOUNCED BY NIGHTDIVE STUDIOS, THE TIME IS ALSO RIGHT TO RETURN TO LUCASARTS' ICONIC GAME

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

WARHAMMER 40K: SPACE MARINE 2

Chaos is winning right now, I fear

LORDS OF THE FALLEN

World-hopping glow-up

FOILED AGAIN

EN GARDE! is a brief yet riotous piece of swashbuckling nostalgia

WARHAMMER AOS: REALMS OF RUIN

Understanding the spirit of Frontier's new RTS

WIZARDRY'S LEGACY

Over 40 years old, the WIZARDRY series is still kicking

THE BEST MECH GAMES ON PC

From anime mecha to rusty 100-ton war machines, the best mech games for giant robot lovers

JET SET RADIO

A vibrant Tokyo-like city with an anti-establishment attitude.

BLUE DAWN

INTEL graphics cards have become a genuine contender. How, and why?

MECH MY DAY

MECHWARRIOR 5: CLANS is bringing a narrative focus and intricate, handcrafted missions back to the storied series.

PURE MAGIC

BALDUR'S GATE III is a dream RPG that was worth the 23-year wait

WHICH WITCHER?

NETFLIX GUY blames \"Americans and young people\" for dumbing down

STALKER 2: HEART OF CHORNOBYL

Life's tough in the zone

HOMEWORLD 3

The space RTS aims to please with its War Games mode

WIRELESS GAMING MICE

I challenge you to spot the difference between these wireless rodents and their wired counterparts.

THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

The developers of Lords Of The Fallen sit down with Dashiell Wood, who discovers two is better than one in this dimension-hopping successor

Way of the demon

Disgaea 7: Vows Of The Virtueless' Shunsuke Minowa talks to Jon Bailes about going back to basics for a 20th anniversary celebration

Getting gooped up

Venom leaps onto PS5 for Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and we mean that both figuratively and literally

A bite out of the Big Apple

Payday 3's lead producer Andreas Häll-Penninger lays out the blueprints for one hell of a heist

Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown

A right royal return for Ubisoft's action-platformer

The Testament Of Sherlock Holmes

This detective game is very much afoot