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Tetris Effect
A progress report on the games we just can’t quit
Watch Dogs 2
How a major attitude adjustment saved Ubisoft’s hacker series from meltdown
INSCRYPTION
Cards of darkness
kingdom come
Exploring Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry’s sharply refined sequel to a modern classic
Impossible year
Reflecting on a terrible, yet undeniably transformative 12 months in games, and where it might lead
HITMAN 3
Agent 47’s big finish is a fresh start for his creators
Gated community
Inside Dim Bulb Games’ gallery of lockpicking mechanics, and what it might mean for games
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
With Peter Parker taking a much-needed break abroad, there’s a new swinger in town.
POWER PLAY
Sony’s new console makes a bold statement in the battle for our living rooms: innovation over iteration
STARSTRUCK: HANDS OF TIME
Give this genre-hopping musical delight a big hand
Yakuza: Like A Dragon
Kiryu who? It says much for the success of this remarkable reinvention that we don’t miss the Dragon Of Dojima half as much as we expected to.
LITTLE DEVIL INSIDE
Imagination comes to life in this minimal RPG
LAKE
Getting away from it all in small-town ‘80s Oregon
FORZA POLPO
PS1 meets SNES in an airy J-pop platformer
COMFORTABLY NUMB
Games understand the human experience of boredom as well as any psychologist
Call Of Duty: Black Ops II
Treyarch’s unexpectedly experimental shooter still surprises and discomforts, though not always intentionally
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Ubisoft’s open-world model was made for Vikings.
3d World Inspired By '90s Game Box Clay Dioramas
Cobysoft Co’s monster-collecting visual novel is a glimpse into a gorgeous, chimerical 3D world inspired by ’90s game box clay dioramas – but made purely with software
Unreliable Narrator
Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales
Weird science
Meet Playables, the production company quietly behind the coolest interactive experiments going
Trigger Happy
Shoot first, ask questions later
Turbo charge
Analogue announces Duo, a new console for NEC’s PC Engine family
MOTION TWIN
The French cooperative that’s getting bigger and smaller at the same time
Death Stranding
Kojima’s post-apocalyptic Pat might have delivered the message of hope 2020 needs
DUE PROCESS
The joke is that you don’t get it
DREAM TEAM
The Xbox Series goes double or quits on a player-first approach that could be the dark horse of the next generation
CHORUS
Space shooting with an unusually oppressive atmosphere
Orwell's Animal Farm
Nerial’s videogame adaptation has certainly got legs – but how many?
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Why EAD Tokyo’s ageless platformer may still be Mario’s finest hour
MILITSIONER
In post-Soviet Russia, you watch Big Brother