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Pacific Drive
When all you can count on are your wheels
Crime Boss: Rockay City - Once upon a crime
Boasting an all-star cast of antiquated action legends including Chuck Norris, Michael Madsen, and Danny Trejo, this isn’t just a throwback to the Hollywood crime thrillers of the 1990s but an era of gaming long past.
Sonic Origins Plus
Game Gear games, playable Amy, and physical copies incoming
C-Smash VRS
A cult classic breaks out once more
Viewfinder - Another point of view
The chill environments of Viewfinder, with its blend of space-white, vaguely Modernist architecture and the odd bit of vegetation, makes us think of both Portal and The Witness. Like them it's also a first-person puzzler, with the latter's sense of mystery as to exactly what's going on and where we are. But, just like our enthusiastically voiced protagonist, we're mostly occupied by what we can do.
"THE ULTIMATE COMFORT GAMING EXPERIENCE? I'VE MINIFIGURED IT OUT."
Lego games click together to fill a cosy niche that's like nothing else
"SHOULD 'JRPG' BE RETIRED AS A TERM, OR DOES IT HAVE MEANING?"
Naoki Yoshida makes a valid point, but what should we all do?
The Land of Nod
Harmony: The Fall Of Reverie needs to sing... and it just might!
Dream of the crop
The 2023 Impy awards saw one particular entry winning in multiple categories
E3 no more
The event's been cancelled, but it was never the only option for summer fun
30 YEARS OF FIFA
Ben Wilson digs into the story of gaming's biggest sports series - as told by those who made it happen
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!
Series producers Katsuhiro Harada and Michael Murray talk Tekken 8, and how it uses PS5's power to usher in a new fighting generation
Diablo IV Mother has arrived
Daughter of Hatred, Mother of the mortal realm, a figure as storied as she is horned – Lilith has returned to Sanctuary. Wherever she roams, darkness awakens in the hearts of all those near, and the blood of innocents flows in a sea of tribute to her.
Simply en-raptor-ing or a T-wreck?
Are Exoprimal's live-service ambitions more dated than its fossilised foes?
DEV ACCESS - Marching orders
Enhance producer Mark MacDonald discusses weird and wonderful action puzzler Humanity
Are they prepared to face Justice?
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is chasing a tricky goal: online success
CLASSIC GAME - Severed
How losing an arm helped us stay in touch with PS Vita
Battlefield 2042 - Season 4: Eleventh Hour
Can the changes convince lapsed players it’s a class act?
Wayfinder
Finds a way to make the MMORPG feel fresh
Darkest Dungeon II
Once more unto the breach for further punishment
Dead Island 2 - Put stars in zombie eyes
We only review finished games, so in Viewpoint we go hands-on with near-final code of a game that just missed our review deadline. Oscar Taylor-Kent got off the plane at LAX for a quick five hours of fame with the starry-eyed Dead Island 2.
Truly Eikonic
Final Fantasy XVI shows why the series is the reigning RPG champion
SPELL OF THE GAME
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell speaks to witches, physicists, Tarot readers, game designers, and amateur botanists about what ‘magic’ means to them – and how videogames portray it
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
Martial arts and horror clash in an exhilarating action RPG
Atomic Heart
Stay clear of this absolute atomic bomb
Resident Evil 4
Throw diplomatic immunity to the monstrous wolves
A SCRIPT REBORN
Translation director MichaelChristopher Koji Fox tells Josh Broadwell how Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn's localisation rose from the ashes
Call Of Duty: Warzone 2.0
Back with a bang
Like A Dragon: Ishin!
You say you want a revolution? Well...
Forspoken
Forsaken, forestalled, for real!