Come Together

The co-creator of Halo assembles a team of youth and experience to push the sci-fi shooter in a thrilling new direction

Travel Lite

Smaller, lighter, longer-lasting – can Switch’s new model deliver joy without Joy-Cons?

Persona 5

How the world’s most stylish prisoners stole our hearts

Crowd Control

Ubisoft’s boldest blockbuster in years takes the N out of NPC

Play Observation

No Code’s wildly ambitious follow-up to the eerie Stories Untold casts you as an AI that feels as flawed as a human.

Smokestack Lightning

How Middlesbrough reclaimed its post-industrial landscape and embraced a digital future

Sie London Studio

The Sony game makers striving to make innovation part of the furniture

Dragon's Dogma

The cult fantasy RPG that found its own weird path to adventure

My Favourite Game James Gilleard

The illustrator and animator on creating his distinctive vector art and the merits of playing meditative games

Leap OF Faith

After a tough few years, BioWare hopes to rise again with a soaring sci-fi shooter.

Hades

Supergiant’s Early Access dungeon crawler is in diabolically good shape

Atlas

The early-access pirate MMO pits reality against expectation

Stardust To Dust

Having pronounced arcade dead, Housemarque navigates the wilds of battle royale..

Future Shock

How CD Projekt Red is making sci-fi real in Cyberpunk 2077, a game years ahead of anything we’ve ever seen before

Biomutant

Bizarre enough to make Darwin raise an eyebrow.

Devil May Cry 5

Capcom’s hack ‘n’ slash hero returns on top form, and armed to the teeth

Hitman 2

IO’s rejuvenated stealth series continues to work the crowd

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Ubisoft’s latest invokes a titan of Western literature.

High Moon Studios

Embracing its destiny, a support act takes centre stage.

Marvel Spider-Man

A few minutes into Marvel’s Spider-Man, Peter Parker is preparing to suit up and head out.

Délice De France

At Paris Games Week, violence takes the shine off Sony’s push for the massmarket

Rush The Stage

How the DriveClub developers have redefined the arcade racer in record time.

My Favourite Game Kumail Nanjiani

The comedian and actor on Commodore 64 bootlegs and looking for emotion in game.

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Three years on, BioWare’s biggest Dragon Age is a work of glorious and slightly tragic excess

Hidden Agenda

Hidden Agenda

Post Script

Why the Blades are at the heart of everything Xenoblade Chronicles 2 gets right – and wrong.

Need For Speed Payback

Need For Speed Payback

My Favourite Game Michelle Zauner

The singer/songwriter known as Japanese Breakfast on making games, soundtracking them, and the divinity of Switch.

Monster Hunter Generations

How returning to the past revealed the beating heart of the hunt.