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Pacific Drive

When all you can count on are your wheels

Crime Boss: Rockay City - Once upon a crime

Boasting an all-star cast of antiquated action legends including Chuck Norris, Michael Madsen, and Danny Trejo, this isn’t just a throwback to the Hollywood crime thrillers of the 1990s but an era of gaming long past.

Sonic Origins Plus

Game Gear games, playable Amy, and physical copies incoming

C-Smash VRS

A cult classic breaks out once more

Viewfinder - Another point of view

The chill environments of Viewfinder, with its blend of space-white, vaguely Modernist architecture and the odd bit of vegetation, makes us think of both Portal and The Witness. Like them it's also a first-person puzzler, with the latter's sense of mystery as to exactly what's going on and where we are. But, just like our enthusiastically voiced protagonist, we're mostly occupied by what we can do.

"THE ULTIMATE COMFORT GAMING EXPERIENCE? I'VE MINIFIGURED IT OUT."

Lego games click together to fill a cosy niche that's like nothing else

"SHOULD 'JRPG' BE RETIRED AS A TERM, OR DOES IT HAVE MEANING?"

Naoki Yoshida makes a valid point, but what should we all do?

The Land of Nod

Harmony: The Fall Of Reverie needs to sing... and it just might!

Dream of the crop

The 2023 Impy awards saw one particular entry winning in multiple categories

E3 no more

The event's been cancelled, but it was never the only option for summer fun

30 YEARS OF FIFA

Ben Wilson digs into the story of gaming's biggest sports series - as told by those who made it happen

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!

Series producers Katsuhiro Harada and Michael Murray talk Tekken 8, and how it uses PS5's power to usher in a new fighting generation

Diablo IV Mother has arrived

Daughter of Hatred, Mother of the mortal realm, a figure as storied as she is horned – Lilith has returned to Sanctuary. Wherever she roams, darkness awakens in the hearts of all those near, and the blood of innocents flows in a sea of tribute to her.

Simply en-raptor-ing or a T-wreck?

Are Exoprimal's live-service ambitions more dated than its fossilised foes?

DEV ACCESS - Marching orders

Enhance producer Mark MacDonald discusses weird and wonderful action puzzler Humanity

Are they prepared to face Justice?

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is chasing a tricky goal: online success

CLASSIC GAME - Severed

How losing an arm helped us stay in touch with PS Vita

Battlefield 2042 - Season 4: Eleventh Hour

Can the changes convince lapsed players it’s a class act?

Wayfinder

Finds a way to make the MMORPG feel fresh

Darkest Dungeon II

Once more unto the breach for further punishment

Dead Island 2 - Put stars in zombie eyes

We only review finished games, so in Viewpoint we go hands-on with near-final code of a game that just missed our review deadline. Oscar Taylor-Kent got off the plane at LAX for a quick five hours of fame with the starry-eyed Dead Island 2.

Truly Eikonic

Final Fantasy XVI shows why the series is the reigning RPG champion

SPELL OF THE GAME

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell speaks to witches, physicists, Tarot readers, game designers, and amateur botanists about what ‘magic’ means to them – and how videogames portray it

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

Martial arts and horror clash in an exhilarating action RPG

Atomic Heart

Stay clear of this absolute atomic bomb

Resident Evil 4

Throw diplomatic immunity to the monstrous wolves

A SCRIPT REBORN

Translation director MichaelChristopher Koji Fox tells Josh Broadwell how Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn's localisation rose from the ashes

Call Of Duty: Warzone 2.0

Back with a bang

Like A Dragon: Ishin!

You say you want a revolution? Well...

Forspoken

Forsaken, forestalled, for real!