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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.

Playground Games

The Horizon studio prepares for life beyond Forza.

Resident Evil 2

Capcom brings fresh eyes to one of horror’s greatest locales.

Project Nova

CCP’s efforts to meaningfully entangle FPS and MMO continue.

Nostos

An enchanting and ambitious virtual-reality RPG that proves collaboration can be magic.

Project Judge

A familiar beat with a different tempo, as Nagoshi returns to Kamurocho.

My Favourite Game James Zabiela

The globe-trotting DJ on forgotten heroes, unforgettable combos, and the conflicted existence of Star Wars fandom.

Opening The Gates

Meet Kowloon Nights, a new development fund with the future of videogames in its sights.

Jurassic Park: J Trespasser

Excavating the site of one of gaming’s most infamous failed experiments.

My Favourite Game Jesper Kyd

The award-winning composer on Commodore 64, Commando and creating moods.

Big Picture Mode

Industry issues given the widescreen treatment.

Control

The ‘new weird’ is the new black for a fiercely independent Remedy.

Injustice 2

Can a fighting game survive the effects of a random loot system?

Sparc

CCP makes a play for the first ‘vsport’.

Playing Italian

Italy’s place within videogames is well established, but a new initiative seeks to take it to the next level.

Yakuza 6

Kiryu and co get a long-overdue overhaul in the most lavish Yakuza game in years.

Conan Exiles

Rule your thralls! Lay waste to enemies! Also, chop down trees.

Impact Winter

Mojo Bones feels the chill as it reimagines the survival genre.

Get Even

The Farm 51’s thriller gets more mysterious with every step taken into its world.

Machine Language

One startup’s quest to use AI to bring game dialogue to life

Tell Tales

Grinning Pickle is building a towering game on the foundations of a jam

Fortnite

Epic's gun-toting Minecraft remix finally breaks over

Middle - Earth: Shadow Of War

There’s more to Talion’s return than playing capture the castle

Darksiders III

There’s no truce with this Fury

K.O.

Nintendo strikes a blow for accessiblity in one of the toughest genres in games.

Cities Of Gold

Meet the geographer on a mission to bring urban renewal into virtual spaces.