ALIVE & KICKING

Playing my first match in BLOOD BOWL 3 – and surviving to tell the tale.

NORTHERN STAR

Rockstar made millions selling Scotland’s natural export: dark comedy

GROUPS OF WRATH

What turns communities toxic? What makes fans abuse community managers? It’s a matter of psychology.

BRANCHING OUT

How ALBA: A WILDLIFE ADVENTURE is making change in the real world

TRUE BLOOD

Guts, grapples, and Goro – director Simon McQuoid hopes to bring a faithful vision of MORTAL KOMBAT to the silver screen.

DARK ALLIANCE

It’s D&D, but with more death and fewer dice

ALIENS: FIRETEAM

It’s Left 4 Dead but with xenomorphs, basically

HELLISH QUART

The most authentic 17th century sword-fighting game you’ll play

BRACE FOR IMPACT

How Chinese free-to-play RPG GENSHIN IMPACT conquered the world.

AFTER EARTH

HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER’s inspirations are rooted in terra firma

Raising The Bar

The subtle, hands-off storytelling of HALF-LIFE 2 is still hard to beat.

Gaming CPUs

Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming.

Leading A Peasant Revolt In Battle Brothers Part II

We return to the Darklands for a grim conclusion.

“Here, have a lighthouse in your face. Have a tiny tank. A bridge for you”

Becoming the fidgetiest soldier in MEDAL OF HONOR: ABOVE AND BEYOND

Unreal World

Two years on, EPIC GAMES STORE is still a golden ticket for developers and irresistible bait for gamers.

RAVE ON

RAVE ON IO Interactive gets experimental with HITMAN 3, its most creative and surprising assassination simulator yet.

QUAKE

The blueprint for 3D shooters has lots to teach in 2021.

HEAVY METAL

OVERRIDE 2: SUPER MECH LEAGUE has a few screws loose.

COLD SHOULDER

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS – COLD WAR can’t top Warzone.

CLOUD CITY

AIRBORNE KINGDOM is a city builder where your only enemy is gravity.

SIM SETTLEMENTS 2

Tune up Fallout 4’s settlement system.

DEVIL'S ADVOCATE

The questing is tedious, but WORLD OF WARCRAFT: SHADOWLANDS is another great WoW expansion.

NEUROJANK

CYBERPUNK 2077 delivers an incredible setting undermined by an onslaught of bugs.

SMALL FRY

How OVERCOOKED’s tiny team took over our living rooms

COSMIC BEATS

The long life of a scientific and cultural icon comes to an end

THE LAUNCH OF A NEW WORLD OF WARCRAFT EXPANSION

A clean slate and a new adventure makes WoW exciting again.

CRIME DOESN'T PAY

EMPIRE OF SIN is ambitious, but undermined by a mountain of issues.

COMEBACK KING

Hunt down a legend as his arch-nemesis in KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE

COLD CASE

TWIN MIRROR is a psychological mystery game that fails to go deeper than the surface.

ASSASSIN'S CREED

Novel ideas save Altaïr from falling on his face.