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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