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CRIS TALES

An RPG where you’re up against the clock

CRIME DOESN'T PAY

EMPIRE OF SIN is ambitious, but undermined by a mountain of issues.

FINAL FANTASY XVI

The future of the JRPG is crystallising

COMEBACK KING

Hunt down a legend as his arch-nemesis in KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE

DEATH LOOP

Game director Dinga Bakaba reveals why we’ll have time to kill in 2021

COLD CASE

TWIN MIRROR is a psychological mystery game that fails to go deeper than the surface.

CHORUS

Watch this space

ASSASSIN'S CREED

Novel ideas save Altaïr from falling on his face.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Every Star Wars movie has been rebuilt brick by brick

NODDING HEADS GAMES

How an Indian studio defied the odds to develop a culturally rich adventure

SHADOWS OF DOUBT

A detective procedural

Tetris Effect

A progress report on the games we just can’t quit

Watch Dogs 2

How a major attitude adjustment saved Ubisoft’s hacker series from meltdown

INSCRYPTION

Cards of darkness

kingdom come

Exploring Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry’s sharply refined sequel to a modern classic

Impossible year

Reflecting on a terrible, yet undeniably transformative 12 months in games, and where it might lead

HITMAN 3

Agent 47’s big finish is a fresh start for his creators

Gated community

Inside Dim Bulb Games’ gallery of lockpicking mechanics, and what it might mean for games

Goodbye Volcano High

Ko-op scales up for a bittersweet ode to youthful impulse

RUNESCAPE

Nearly two decades old, it has never stopped growing.

TRYING TO BE JUST AND PIOUS IN CRUSADER KINGS III PART II

Nicety and piety are leading to calamity.

LIGHT IT UP

WARHAMMER 40,000: DARKTIDE is coming, so grab your torch and chainsword

LONDON BRAWLING

Liberate the city with buskers and beekeepers in WATCH DOGS LEGION.

VIKING INVASION

ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA is the best Assassin’s Creed to date.

RAINBOW SIX SIEGE

Hands-on with the final season, Operation Neon Dawn.

COPYCAT?

Woman says LEAGUE OF LEGENDS character is based on her, Riot denies it

HACK THE PLANET

MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR modders imagining a better Earth

DOOM SCROLL

How id Software reclaimed its history by losing its leaders

BOOK OF TRAVELS

Adventure in a world where you’re not forced to be the hero

Where to Start with the Wii U

Danielle tells us where to start with the Wii U.