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THE MAKING OF... HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER

How Blackbird Interactive cracked the formula for a sci-fi tale of dystopian deconstruction

DREAM TICKET

As Media Molecule prepares to move on, we get the inside track on Tren, its spectacular swan song for Dreams

FOREVER SKIES

Though its knightly get-ups remind us of the Arthurian tone of Dark Souls, and its gothic environments carry the miasma of Bloodborne’s Yharnam, it doesn’t take long for Hexworks’ Soulslike to spill beyond the mould in which it’s been set.

Final inning

The life and death of Blaseball, one of gaming's strangest experiments

Video gaze

Why has an assistive technology firm released a compilation of minigames?

SILENCE IS GORDON

Why does the mute protagonist still loom large over the landscape of firstperson-viewed games?

Deal of the decade

Microsoft's Activision plan satisfies US courts and (most) third parties thanks to a series of ten-year concessions

DAMBUSTER STUDIOS

How the former Free Radical found the fun amid corporate crises

THE HOT 50

PlayStation's next wave of hits is on the way, from blockbuster sequels to the brand-new these are the 50 hottest games you need to look out for, coming to your PS5 and PS4!

Diablo IV

There's a hell of a loot going on around here

Synapse

Mind over matter

Crash Team Rumble

Where wumpa' spelled backwards is still 'wumpa', apparently

Parasite Eve 2

A survival horror left looking for a host

Dordogne

Going with the flow of time

Getting cloudy

With a chance of gaming - PS Plus' PS5 streaming is beginning to roll out

Final Fantasy XVI

Shattering the crystalware

Yo, yo-yoer

The Sonic Mania devs spin up something new with the lo-fi Penny's Big Breakaway

The Legend Of Heroes: Trails Into Reverie

All trails lead to the end

Atlus make things Persona(l)

Can remakes, spin-offs, and spiritual successors hold the line until Persona 6?

F1 23

The varied, substantial game last year's should have been

Crime Boss: Rockay City

Gaslight, gatekeep, crimeboss

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Become your own best witness

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals

Tune in or tune out?

CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY

We played Cyberpunk 2077's expansion at Summer Game Fest

PAYDAY 3

Robbing a bank without a plan is as hard as it sounds

TOTAL WAR: PHARAOH

Total War returns to a more grounded take

FIRST DATE JITTERS

Date squids and solve murders in MASK OF THE ROSE

TAKING ON THE CHOSEN IN XCOM 2 PART III

The Assassin finally falls, but at what cost?

LIVING HELL

Fiery builds and lots of skeletons in the fantastical darkness of DIABLO IV

A WOLF IN JEEP'S CLOTHING

LEGO 2K DRIVE is a tyre’d and tested formula, ruined by corporate greed