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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

OVERWATCH 2

Blizzard's new entry doesn't quite earn sequel status

SMASHING STUFF

Tearing down TEARDOWN's voxelated worlds never gets old

RIDE ON TIME

MOTOGP 22 looks back at an historic season in style

GRANDMA TURISMO

How street racer SZROT became a celebration of Eastern European cultures

INSIDE BASEBALL

How 38 STUDIOS’ failed MMO gave us Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

BALANCING ACT

Blizzard hopes for big change by switching OVERWATCH from 6v6 to 5v5

FAMILY VALUES

ROGUE LEGACY 2 joins its forebear in the roguelite hall of fame

AVALON CALLING

Is KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT'S TALE the Holy Grail or a wholly fail?

DDR5 MEMORY

We’ve tested the top gaming memory to find out which to pair with your new gaming PC.

CONTROLLED CHAOS

Dealing with cosmic plagues in WARHAMMER 40,000: CHAOS GATE – DAEMONHUNTERS

MAXING THE MINIMUM

Inside the often thankless, quietly imaginative task of developing for LOW-SPEC GAMING

DESERT POWER

For the first time in 20 years, war returns to Arrakis in real-time 4X DUNE: SPICE WARS

SANDS OF TIME

A masterful sci-fi adaptation that shaped the future of the RTS? That would be DUNE II.

A WHOLE NEWELL WORLD

Valve president GABE NEWELL has big plans for the Steam Deck

DEFEAT DAEMONS IN TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

Face the forces of Chaos and emerge victorious.

DUE SOUTH

This stunning point-and-click parable isn’t the next Kentucky Route Zero – it’s the first NORCO

HALF-LIFE 2: OVERCHARGED

Supercharge Gordon Freeman.