SOUL FRAME

After nearly a decade, the Warframe devs have a new game

WARFRAME: THE DUVIRI PARADOX

Digital Extreme is getting into the time loop business

SFX EDUCATION

Audio director PAUL WEIR on making No Man’s Sky sound out of this world

A TREASURED ISLAND

There was never meant to be a RETURN TO MONKEY ISLAND – but Ron Gilbert is making the trip.

HIP TO BE SQUARE

The rise and fall of the gamer aesthetic

The last time this universe felt like it wanted you to be a cutthroat killer

Going back to ASSASSIN’S CREED SYNDICATE reminds me of the series’ glory days

OVERWATCH 2

Second PvP beta is a testing ground for new ideas.

'A spirit mostly lost in modern D&D'

Old-fashioned dungeoneering in Elden Ring

STREET FIGHTER 6

With this stylish sequel, Capcom is finally ahead of the pack again

OLD SKIES

I already feel like I’ve known these characters for eons

VIVA LAS PHOENIX

Meet the erotic roleplayers making a living in FINAL FANTASY XIV’s mini Vegas

POWER STRUGGLE

What can we do to make our PCs kinder on our ENERGY BILLS?

DESTINY 2: SEASON OF THE HAUNTED

The Light is changing, and not everyone is happy about it.

SEARCHING FOR MUTANTS IN WILDERMYTH

Why is it so difficult to transform my heroes into something weird?

SHELL POWER

Thanks to plenty of turtle wax, TMNT: SHREDDER’S REVENGE shines

WARHAMMER 40 K: DARK TIDE

A confident, carnage-filled step forward from Vermintide

SAVE ROOM FOR DESERT

COMPANY OF HEROES 3’s second campaign is all explosive RTS action, all the time.

STARFIELD

No Man’s Sky meets Skyrim, with a touch of FreeSpace

SMALL FORM FACTOR PC CASES

We’ve jammed the tiniest components into the best small form factor PC cases around.

SAINTS ROW

A more grounded take, but don’t worry: it’s still extremely silly

V RISING

Build, battle, and bite in this vampiric survival game

YAKUZA 0'S HOSTESS CLUB

Cabaret Club Czar could be a whole standalone game.

Short StoriEs

How indie ‘MICRO-RPGs’ offer fascinating perspectives on the genre’s overstuffed epics.

FRENEMIES WITHIN

MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS de­es every expectation an XCOM player could have.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM

A stealth adventure with an identity crisis

PROPHET MARGIN

The real cost of running CRYSIS in 2007, upgrade by upgrade

DISNEY DREAM LIGHT VALLEY

It Disney get any better than this

BALD DECISIONS

How LARIAN broke out of the B-tier to master the Western RPG

RELIABLE NARRATOR

Buckets of new features come to THE STANLEY PARABLE: ULTRA DELUXE

OLD SKIES

Keeping the time-travelling rich out of temporal trouble