SEMI-PRECIOUS

LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM charms despite a fractured identity

FIRST DATE JITTERS

Date squids and solve murders in MASK OF THE ROSE

LIVING HELL

Fiery builds and lots of skeletons in the fantastical darkness of DIABLO IV

BALDUR'S FATE

After more than two decades, the wait is finally over. BALDUR'S GATE III is here and, as Robert Jones discovers, it's changing the scope of what an CRPG can offer forever

AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA

Ubisoft's Avatar game looks like a Far Cry clone so far

TOTAL WAR: PHARAOH

Total War returns to a more grounded take

PAYDAY 3

Robbing a bank without a plan is as hard as it sounds

CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY

We played Cyberpunk 2077's expansion at Summer Game Fest

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE LOST CROWN

Not the Prince of Persia game you wanted, but the one you need

ANIMATED DISCUSSION

Sumo Digital's THOMAS CROFTS on the craft and importance of animation in games

ALARA DIVIDED

How TOMB RAIDER's early marketing campaigns objectified an icon

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

QUANTUM PROCESSOR?

The 'first product of the quantum processing algorithm' was, in fact, not that

HELLSCREEN

Shooting backward to move forward in this sick FPS

FINAL FANTASY IX'S BRILLIANT BITE-SIZED VIGNETTES

ATEs are the play within the play

SIRENROOT

Escape from ruins in Skyrim

OLED GAMING MONITORS

OLED technology has arrived on the desktop at last

THE MOST APOCALYPTIC GAMES ON PC

Charting PC gaming’s radioactive history.

IMMORTALS OF AVEUM

Fight a magewar with first-person spell shooting

MOTOGP 23

You’ll want to pop a helmet on for this one

EXOPRIMAL

A throwback to experimental Capcom action games

YOUR DESKTOP PAL

Tracking down JOHNNY CASTAWAY, the forefather of virtual pets

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

THE FALLOUT FALLOUT

FALLOUT's co-creator dropping bombs about the nascent days of CRPGs

GOING VIRAL

Diary of a disastrous MALWARE ATTACK, 2006 style

GIANT STEPS

What will PC GRAPHICS look like in ten years?

TRIALS AND EVISCERATIONS

Whether they like it or not, THE OUTLAST TRIALS will test its patients

CLASSIFIED: FRANCE '44

Wage war on Nazis in this densely layered turn-based strategy game

ROAD WARRIORS

BROKEN ROADS brings the end of the world back home

WONDROUS

AGE OF WONDERS 4 makes conquering worlds with magic a joy