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What's it Like To Watch Your Favorite Game Overshadowed By A Spin-Off Mode?
What’s it like to watch your favorite game overshadowed by a spin-off mode?
The Future Of Immersive Sims
As the mainstream industry moves onto pastures new, what does the future hold for the shadowy genre known as the immersive simulation?
Scale Models
JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION looks gorgeous but lacks bite.
Underworld Ascendant
Ultima Underworld’s successor has nice ideas, but they’re not original
A Linear Sequence Of Scares
A twisted funhouse based on a fake TV show is one of the best levels in Max Payne 2.
BioShock
Worse things do happen at sea.
The Dunatian
A Kerbal Space Program recreation of Andy Weir’s The Martian.
Snap Happy
Ubisoft is fleshing out our knowledge of BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL 2
In Transit
How players are searching for real exoplanets through EVE ONLINE.
Processing Reality
Faking physical cameras with post-processing.
Spy Party
Networking at events has never been more stressful
Party Pooper
Murderous Pursuits struggles to find its target.
It No Longer Looks Like A Graphics Card Demo. It Looks Fun
Playing dress-up till the world ends in PARAGON
How Parallel Processing Is Key To AI Learning To Drive
How parallel processing is key to AI learning to drive
Training Day
Dovetail Games, developer of Train Sim World, on building sims
The Post Apocalyptic FPS Gets Bigger, Wilder And More Open
Metro exodus flees the underground and finds a violent wasteland.
Anatomy Of An Explosion
Video games love a good explosion, but how are these spectacular effects designed?
Monster Mash
MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD sets up a reverse Jurassic Park scenario and adds high fashion to make dragon murder infinitely entertaining.
Hard Cell
Crashing castles in dead cells.
Scrotal Recall
Dick jokes and repetition in Far Cry 5: Lost On Mars
Wake Up, Sheeple
Cheat On Your Partner And Pay The Price In Catherine Classic’s Offbeat Mix Of Puzzle Game And Life Sim.
Undead King
RESIDENT EVIL 2, a remake of the PlayStation classic, is a masterclass in making an old game feel fresh again.
Beige is The New Black
Rebuilding a 1998 rig just to play Half-Life.
Rage 2
Avalanche attempts to bring new life to id’s wasteland
WoW Classic Is The Time Machine That Every Fan Should Play
More than just a nostalgia trip
Simulation Complete
It’s Always Worth Double-checking In Frozen Synapse 2.
Half-life: Echoes
Relive the Black Mesa incident all over again in this expansion-quality story mod.
Silly Season
Playground Games Plays The Long Game In Forza Horizon 4.
Beyond Blue
Jump forward a decade with this stunning underwater mystery
Opus Magnum's Alchemical Gifs
It’s the gifs which made me fall in love with Opus magnum. Without them it’s reliably good Zach Barth fare—an alchemy-themed option from his assembly line programming puzzle oeuvre where you move different reagents around a board in order to create compounds.