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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

The classic flight-sim action series propels itself into the future

A Better Tomorrow

Microsoft heads to XO18 to celebrate Xbox One – but reveals its gaze is fixed on the future

State Of The Onion

Yoshiro Kimura peels back the layers of his studio’s wonderfully eccentric catalogue.

The Light Keeps Us Safe

Big Robot goes dark with a scary, stealthy survival adventure.

Storm Divers

Arcade lives on in Housemarque's familiar-feeling battle royale.

Small Talk

It’s your party and you’ll cry if you want to.

My Favourite Game Niamh Houston

The chiptune artist on Game Boy wizardry, perfectionist tendencies and the game that expanded her world.

League Of Their Own

How Private Division is staking a claim for ‘the new middle’ with two of 2019’s most adventurous new games.

Sayonara Wild Hearts

Simogo returns with its boldest, poppiest game so far.

Turbulenz

How a group of EA veterans turned Minecraft into an MMO.

Halo: Reach

How Bungie went back to the beginning for its Halo swansong.

Call Of Duty: WWII

Black Ops IIII’s scavenger hunt approach to game design, cherry-picking elements from its peers, is not without Call Of Duty precedent.

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later.

Hold To Reset

Building a new game, a new studio and a new life from the ground up.

Marvel's Spider-Man

Going under the mask with Insomniac’s long-in-the-making web-slinger. 

ORI And The Will Of The Wisps

Moon Studios goes into all the Ori details of making a potential classic.

Fist Of The North Star : Lost Paradise

Sega’s daft Kenshiro/Kiryu mash-up goes global.

The Making Of... Tetris Effect

How Sunday drives, long baths and desert raves saw a classic puzzle game reborn

Invisible Inc.

How an indie spy game made turnbased tactics relentlessly exciting

Days Gone

We have played longer open-world games than this, but nothing quite so aggressively drawn-out

Planet Zoo

Frontier turns its tech to lions and tigers and bears, oh my

Pacer

R8’s anti-grav racer gets back on track

My Favourite Game Denis Karimani

The artist known as Remute on making music with Sega Mega Drives and the enduring appeal of retro games

Dream Reality Interactive

How a group of SingStar and VR veterans are finding inspiration beyond games

The Folder Generation

With the Labo VR Kit, Nintendo returns to virtual reality after a quarter-century away

Tales Of The Neon Sea

This point-and-click investigation has a twist in its tail

Dragon Quest IX

How a JRPG grind taught us the value of mortality

Sea Of Thieves

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

Audica

Harmonix’s finely tuned VR shooter sets its sights on rhythm heaven

Rad

Double Fine’s understanding of the apocalypse oozes wit and humour