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Hidden Agenda
Hidden Agenda
Post Script
Why the Blades are at the heart of everything Xenoblade Chronicles 2 gets right – and wrong.
Need For Speed Payback
Need For Speed Payback
My Favourite Game Michelle Zauner
The singer/songwriter known as Japanese Breakfast on making games, soundtracking them, and the divinity of Switch.
Monster Hunter Generations
How returning to the past revealed the beating heart of the hunt.
Playground Games
The Horizon studio prepares for life beyond Forza.
Resident Evil 2
Capcom brings fresh eyes to one of horror’s greatest locales.
Project Nova
CCP’s efforts to meaningfully entangle FPS and MMO continue.
Nostos
An enchanting and ambitious virtual-reality RPG that proves collaboration can be magic.
Project Judge
A familiar beat with a different tempo, as Nagoshi returns to Kamurocho.
My Favourite Game James Zabiela
The globe-trotting DJ on forgotten heroes, unforgettable combos, and the conflicted existence of Star Wars fandom.
Opening The Gates
Meet Kowloon Nights, a new development fund with the future of videogames in its sights.
Jurassic Park: J Trespasser
Excavating the site of one of gaming’s most infamous failed experiments.
My Favourite Game Jesper Kyd
The award-winning composer on Commodore 64, Commando and creating moods.
Big Picture Mode
Industry issues given the widescreen treatment.
Control
The ‘new weird’ is the new black for a fiercely independent Remedy.
Injustice 2
Can a fighting game survive the effects of a random loot system?
Sparc
CCP makes a play for the first ‘vsport’.
Playing Italian
Italy’s place within videogames is well established, but a new initiative seeks to take it to the next level.
Yakuza 6
Kiryu and co get a long-overdue overhaul in the most lavish Yakuza game in years.
Conan Exiles
Rule your thralls! Lay waste to enemies! Also, chop down trees.
Impact Winter
Mojo Bones feels the chill as it reimagines the survival genre.
Get Even
The Farm 51’s thriller gets more mysterious with every step taken into its world.
Machine Language
One startup’s quest to use AI to bring game dialogue to life
Tell Tales
Grinning Pickle is building a towering game on the foundations of a jam
Fortnite
Epic's gun-toting Minecraft remix finally breaks over
Middle - Earth: Shadow Of War
There’s more to Talion’s return than playing capture the castle
Darksiders III
There’s no truce with this Fury
K.O.
Nintendo strikes a blow for accessiblity in one of the toughest genres in games.
Cities Of Gold
Meet the geographer on a mission to bring urban renewal into virtual spaces.