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Trophy Hunters
Once again, the real winners at The Game Awards are the viewers who tune in for a slew of new announcements.
Outer Wilds
Could Mobius Digital’s IGF winner really be an interstellar Wind Waker?
Creaks
Prepare to face the furniture in Amanita’s spine-tingling puzzle-platformer.
Hytale
Hypixel’s first original game shows the Minecraft generation has come of age.
An Audience With Tim Sweeney
From BASIC to VR: Epic’s founder talks us through a life dedicated to videogame technology.
Sinclair Resurge Ltd
The ZX Spectrum is back – and there’s no need to dig out your tape recorder
Horizon Zero Dawn
Guerrilla delivers an ambitious combat system in its sprawling action RPG.
Supermassive Games
The UK studio on a mission to live up to its name.
Beyond Infinity
After a remarkable 2016, what’s next for Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi?
Marvel vs Capcom : Infinite
One of the most impenetrable fighting games around shows its friendly side
Making History
How a team of futurists went back in time to make the most intriguing Call Of Duty in years
Rocket Science
How Starlink: Battle For Atlas has the tricky business of toys-to-life down to a fine art.
Quarantine Circular
Buoyed by the warm reception that greeted last year’s sci-fi detective short Subsurface Circular, Mike Bithell has returned to the well within a brisk 10 months.
Onrush
Within moments of starting Onrush’s story mode, we have our mission statement. As an opening voiceover explains, this is an idea that came to be “when rules started grinding motorsport down”.
Destiny 2: Warmind
Officially, Crimson does not exist; one of its perks is called Banned Weapon.
Big Picture Mode
Industry issues given the widescreen treatment.
Big Picture Mode
Industry issues given the widescreen treatment.
Monster Of The Deep: Final Fantasy XV
Monster Of The Deep: Final Fantasy XV
Frostpunk
Frostpunk
Dark Side
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider shows us an imperfect image of Lara Croft in what could be her most revelatory adventure to date.
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
The bad-attitude assassin returns for an all-in-one arcade rampage.
Trigger Happy
Shoot first, ask questions later.
Back To Life
How Darewise is bringing a sci-fi MMO by Viktor Antonov and Randy Smith to fruition
Norse Code
How ripples of detail in new studio Plausible Concept’s miniature strategy game create a tsunami-sized challenge
Trigger Happy
Shoot first, ask questions later
Big Picture Mode
Industry issues given the widescreen treatment
Plastic Fantastic
Harmonix pairs up with Hasbro to reinvent the music game peripheral
His Story
Two years on from his award-winning breakthrough, Sam Barlow is back with two provocative new projects
My Favourite Game Njambi McGrath
How Doom and Mario Kart reflect different sides of the Kenyan comedian’s personality
Trigger Happy
Shoot first, ask questions later