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BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

EXOPRIMAL

A throwback to experimental Capcom action games

MOTOGP 23

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

IMMORTALS OF AVEUM

Fight a magewar with first-person spell shooting

THE MOST APOCALYPTIC GAMES ON PC

Charting PC gaming’s radioactive history.

SIRENROOT

Escape from ruins in Skyrim

FINAL FANTASY IX'S BRILLIANT BITE-SIZED VIGNETTES

ATEs are the play within the play

OLED GAMING MONITORS

OLED technology has arrived on the desktop at last

THE FALLOUT FALLOUT

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

GIANT STEPS

What will PC GRAPHICS look like in ten years?

GOING VIRAL

Diary of a disastrous MALWARE ATTACK, 2006 style

HELLSCREEN

Shooting backward to move forward in this sick FPS

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

Gathering of developers

This year's Develop conference in Brighton features an abundance of game-making talent

All hands on Deck

As the portable PC race hots up, we two rivals to Valve's game-changing weigh up handheld

THE MAKING OF TUNIC

A game made in the margins

ENDNIGHT GAMES

How The Forest gave a tiny studio an outsized success

DISPATCHES AUGUST

Like most people, every waking minute of the past week has involved playing and consuming Tears Of The Kingdom content, but while my timeline has been completely inundated with crazy contraptions and crucified Koroks, it’s Ascend that has surprised me the most out of Link’s arsenal of new powers

Alternate Reality

Adrian Hon on the transformative leap of The Last Clockwinder

AN AUDIENCE WITH... HENRIQUE OLIFIERS

The Bossa boss on selling off hits, doubling down on co-op, and reinventing the ZX Spectrum

STRAY GODS: THE ROLEPLAYING MUSICAL

Making choices, awaking voices

COUNTER-STRIKE 2

Anyone seeking clues to the inscrutable Valve’s grand plan for Counter-Strike should look back at CS:GO’s release back in 2012.

BLASPHEMOUS 2

An expansive sequel embraces its inner Castlevania

SALTSEA CHRONICLES

All aboard for an ensemble adventure

TIMES & GALAXY

Robot journalists? A dystopian vision indeed

DEEP TROUBLES

The Chinese Room drills into a rich vein of '70s horror in terrifying firstperson chiller Still Wakes The Deep

SYNAPTIC LEAP

After a decade in VR, UK studio nDreams is ready for the big time

The Case Of The Golden Idol

Color Gray Games’ detective adventure seemed an unlikely candidate for an expansion

COCOON

A beautiful puzzle adventure emerges from its chrysalis