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The E3 that wasn't

With the ESA skipping 2022, where does it leave the most important month in games?

MIND GAMES

How developers, scientists and business leaders are wrestling with the complicated prospect of games as tools for mental health

DRAKNEK & FRIENDS

A puzzling magician makes publishing provisions

From the ashes

The story behind the premature death – and surprising rebirth – of The Tomorrow Children

END OF ΙΝΝOCENCE

A Plague Tale returns with picturesque views, tougher children – and millions more rats

Diablo Immortal

The game can be played for free, in the same way it’s possible to dig through a brick wall with a spoon

Box fresh

Inside the company bringing a new breed of physical game to Japanese store shelves

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

TRUTH OF DARE

After 20 years and 50 game jams, Ludum Dare is still shaping the industry

Return Of The Obra Dinn

How a horrifying seafaring mystery yarn turned us into willing bureaucrats.

ΤΗΕ MAKING OF... DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS

From FF to 00 and back again: the story of a mountainous journey into the depths

ΤΗΕ LΟΝG GAME

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

ΤΗΕ HALF OF IT

The rise, fall, and curious afterlife of splitscreen multiplayer

PUTTING THE HAMMER DOWN

Warhammer's unstoppable rise within the videogame universe

MOBIUS DIGITAL

The Outer Wilds studio heals its pandemic wounds - and hunts for a new galaxy-brain project

MAKING WAVES

How Darktide takes Vermintide's horde action into the grim darkness of the far future

HOW TO SAY GOODBYE

Moving on, and every which way

Build them up to knock them down

Bulo Studio gives aspiring developers the tools to create full-blown shoot-'em-ups without coding

THE WOLF AMONG US 2

New studio, new season: can Telltale’s return to Fabletown blow our house down?

PLAY

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

THE CENTENNIAL CASE: A SHIJIMA STORY

Square Enix brings together real life and fake deaths

Link to the past

With Nintendo closing 3DS and Wii U digital stores, where does that leave videogame preservation?

LOCK AND LOAD

Ashen’s developer leads the Soulslike through an industrial revolution in Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn

NEON WHITE

Racing meets rocket jumps in Annapurna’s angelic speedrunner

ANIMAL WELL

A Metroidvania aiming to stand alongside modern classics

NINTENDO SWITCH SPORTS

The legacy of the Wii era lives on in this long-awaited successor

De Blob

How an educational demo expanded its canvas, in an attempt to take on Mario

COLLECTED WORKS ED ROTBERG

Meet a man from the forefront of gaming’s momentous leap into 3D

A HIGHLAND SONG

Alive with the sound of music

Rainbow Six Extraction

It can be hard to make those calls correctly, and failure can come in an instant. But isn’t that what makes gambling so exciting?