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ΤΗΕ MAKING ΟF DEATHLOOP

How the time-loop shooter won over Bethesda, players – and its own developers

A fighting chance

Big news about multiple fighting games as the genre is poised for a new era

Live, die, repeat

The best things in life are free. Beyond Genshin Impact, there’s plenty of fun to be had without spending a penny

A Plague Tale goes bigger and better

Requiem’s lead level designer Kevin Pinson discusses greater freedom and heaps o’ rats

Woah de Cologne

It was great to be back in person at Europe’s biggest gaming event, even if there were few surprises

Holmes improvement

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened gets ground-up remake

Cursed To Golf

Driving you fore-rious

Dusk Diver 2

A beat-’em-up that won’t hurry up

Earning a Knighthood

WB Games Montréal’s Geoff Ellenor and Wilson Mui talk about building their own take on Gotham City, and citizens from heroes to villains

The Dark Pictures: The Devil In Me

Shambling in the dark of the murder castle

Edge of our seats

Sony unveils a premium DualSense controller

Digimon Survive

Surviving but not thriving

Going green

The Genshin Impact dev team speak with Oscar Taylor-Kent about the changes they’re making to their open-world RPG, from an evolving story to new exploration options, and improvements for PS5

The adventurer’s guidebook

Free-to-play open-world RPG Genshin Impact can be intimidating, but Oscar Taylor-Kent’s on hand to crack open his journal and give you some tips

CLOSE COMBAT

MULTIVERSUS is an unexpectedly great matchup – even if it does whiffa few attacks

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

In IMMORTALITY, art is a force that creates and destroys

SOULS-YIKES

I am requesting we stop making Dark Souls rip offs like THYMESIA

DEAD ISLAND 2

Back from the grave… again. With a vengeance

MINI BREAKS

MOONBREAKER feels pure tabletop, but on your PC

PC GAMING IN BRAZIL

EXORBITANT HARDWARE, IRREPRESSIBLE COMPETITIVE SPIRIT, AND THE MOST INFAMOUS LAUGH ON THE INTERNET

SAINT NO JOKE

The rebooted SAINTS ROW could really do with a dubstep gun

UNCATCHABLE

Why has no indie riffon POKÉMON taken off on PC?

PAST OASIS

After admitting their MMO ‘sucks,’ DONKEY CREW reworks the entire game

HOME ALONE

Solving puzzles isn’t a chore in HOME

ΤΗΕ ΜΑΚΙΝG OF...NORCO

How South Louisiana's Cancer Alley inspired a dreamlike cyberpunk adventure.

CRIME OF THE CENTURY

How Creative Assembly evolved from Isolation to getting the gang together for the ultimate (pop-culture heist

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

A flawed sequel says it best when it says nothing at all

Saints Row

The result feels deeply compromised, falling between the Saints Row of old and the series it became

BROKEN RULES

From broken furniture to a radical reorganisation: how the Gibbon developer has kept on swinging

Going for gold

As the Commonwealth Games trials a videogame competition, does it feel like a torchbearer for esports?