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"We should be asking for more variety in our open worlds"

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CHAPTER ONE is a vision of the untapped potential of the genre

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AN AUDIENCE WITH...GOICHI SUDA

Grasshopper Manufacture's founder talks creativity, counterculture, and becoming a \"weird old dude\"

RHYTHM STORM

Rebel against the beat in this pulsating arcade Roguelike

SHADOWS OF DOUBT

Sending the investigation genre in a whole new direction

EUROPA

This Ghibli-inspired adventure looks positively dreamy

ASOBO STUDIO

The journey from Garfield and Pixar tie-ins to A Plague Tale and Flight Simulator

8 mins |

EVERYTHING EVERY WHERE ALL AT ONCE

How Leslie Benzies and a team of former Rockstars are building an allencompassing multiverse

FINAL FANTASY XVI

Purists may cry as the RPG series embraces action

4 mins |

REDFALL

Arkane vamps it up in its open-world co-op shooter

8 mins |

THE FINALS

Fame and fortune await – if you don’t get flattened first

ΤΗΕ ΜΑΚΙΝG ΟF...METAL: HELLSINGER

From a cancelled project to locked-down singers: how the heavy-metal shooter was forged

8 mins |

REDEMPTION SONG

After Us explores the difficulty of telling stories of apocalypse and reparation through the lens of an action game

THE IMPACT RESIDENT EVIL 4

WHILE THERE HAD BEEN A HANDFUL OF INNOVATIONS DURING ITS FIRST THREE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED GAMES, THE CORE GAMEPLAY OF THE MAIN RESIDENT EVIL SERIES HAD REMAINED BROADLY THE SAME BY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. AS THE NEW MILLENNIUM DAWNED, IT WAS TIME FOR A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE THAT WOULD COME TO REDEFINE THE SERIES FOREVER

In the chair with...ROGER HECTOR

He joined Atari in its black-and-white days and is still making videogames almost half a century later. Roger Hector shares stories of holograms, vector tanks and scratched Sonic soundtracks

THE MAKING OF THE RUMBLE FISH 1+2

THE RUMBLE FISH MIGHT BE AN ODD NAME, BUT THE FIGHTING GAMES THAT BEAR IT ARE AN INTERESTING EVOLUTIONARY LINK BETWEEN FAR MORE FAMOUS FRANCHISES. WE SPEAK TO DIMPS TO FIND OUT WHY THESE FIGHTING GAMES ARE MORE SMOKED SALMON THAN CODSWALLOP

ULTIMATE GUIDE: STUNT CAR RACER

OF ALL GEOFF CRAMMOND'S CELEBRATED 3D GAMING EXPERIENCES, STUNT CAR RACER IS ARGUABLY THE MOST FUN. RETRO GAMER IS YOUR NAVIGATOR, AS YOUR VEHICLE IS WINCHED ONTO THE STARTING LINE OF HIS DAREDEVIL RACING TITLE

STUDIO PROFILE Twilight

Twilight was formed when a group of programmers and graphic artists split from Harrogatebased developer and publisher Enigma Variations. They went on to produce games for many UK publishers and affect a change in British Law thanks to a chicken

CASTLEVANIA: SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT

A version of Konamis classic was set to terrorise the most unlikely of platforms, but received a stake in the heart before it could draw blood

Clive 'N' Wrench

We chat to Rob Wass about his brand-new platformer which is inspired by the 3D classics of yesteryear

SYSTEM 24 HEAVEN

SEGA'S SYSTEM 24 ARCADE HARDWARE HAS BEEN CALLED 'OBSCURE' BY SOME, AND THE GAMES THAT RAN ON IT CONSIDERED 'CURIOSITIES'. AT RETRO GAMER WE FEEL THERE HAS BEEN SOME KIND OF MISUNDERSTANDING. JOIN US AS WE UNCOVER THE REALITY

THE MAKING OF JET BIKE SIMULATOR

PHILIP AND ANDREW OLIVER HAD ALREADY ENJOYED DIZZYING SUCCESS BY THE TIME THEY MADE JET BIKE SIMULATOR. BUT WOULD GAMERS RACE TO PLAY THEIR LATEST CREATION OR WOULD A GAMBLE WITH A NEW PRICING STRUCTURE CAUSE IT TO SINK?