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Suicide Squad take on PlayStation 5

The Arkhamverse expands to Metropolis for the next gen

PROJECT CARS 3

“Er… guys? Who replaced my dashboard with Lego?”

NO STRAIGHT ROADS

If music be the food of love, rock on!

Gotham Knights keeps it all in the family

WB Montréal moves on from Arkham with a sensational co-op superteam

GODFALL

Can the first game ever revealed for PS5 answer all our prayers?

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

Nothing but good beans

Marvel's Avengers

Marvellously assembling a platform for future heroics

RPG QUEST

IT’S ONE THING TO ATTEMPT TO SET OUT TO PLAY EVERY SINGLE GAME IN AN ENTIRE GENRE. BUT TO FINISH EACH ONE IN THE ORDER THEY WERE RELEASED AND THEN TO BLOG DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF THEM IS A QUEST BEYOND. THAT’S WHAT CHESTER BOLINGBROKE, AUTHOR OF CRPG ADDICT, SET OUT TO DO IN FEBRUARY 15, 2010, WHEN HE WROTE THE BLOG’S FIRST POST. OVER TEN YEARS LATER, HE’S STILL GOING.

THE SIGNIFIER

Explore the minds of the dead in this psychological mystery game

TOKYO STORY

Salt, sidequests, and suplexes in the impeccable YAKUZA 0

PORTAL

Subtle mods for a new experience.

GOING CHIRAL

How the twist of a photon can make all the difference

DETHRONED

CRUSADER KINGS III is in charge now.

FULL THROTTLE

LucasArts’ biker adventure still kicks ass.

ALL-TIME HIGH

MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR takes ‘open world’ very literally.

Gotham Knights

A new Batman game – but without Batman

Choice & Consequence

No decision in world of warcraft matters more than your race and class. Every character, from hardcore raiders to that level 14 undead warlock you started six years ago on a whim but never touched again, is defined by these two traits. And few of the choices you make in the countless hours that unfold after starting a new adventure are ever as meaningful. World of warcraft: shadowlands is going to change that.

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

CLOUD GARDENS

The co-creator of the Kingdom series sends out new shoots towards the sky

My Favourite Game Mike Shinoda

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

The Xbox Is Dead

Adam calls the death of the Xbox.

Whatever Happened To... Army of Two?

Josh wonders about an old game series.

So I Tried… Gemini: Heroes Reborn

Andrew tried the tie-in game for the short-lived relaunch.