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Visions Of Mana

Tree-t yourself to this mana-fold return

Shadow and flame

Why Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree is more than simple DLC - it's a huge new open world adventure that'll take over your gaming life

Punch Nazis

Twin-superhero adventure Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra looks totally Unreal

Rise Of The Ronin

Proof that Ninja Gaiden wasnt merely a flash in Japan

EIYUDEN CHRONICLE: HUNDRED HEROES

Spiritual successor to Suikoden promises an grand adventure

ELDEN RING REBORN

A Scholar of the First Sin-style total conversion mod for Elden Ring.

THE GOD FACTORY

A group of players built a record-breaking plant

BEST BEHAVIOUR

Donkey Crew's lead gameplay developer, SERGII GREBEN, on programming AI for NPCs

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004.

TWENTY YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE GREATEST FPS FRANCHISES ON PC PEAKED WITH UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004. REMARKABLE IN ITS OWN RIGHT, ITS STRIKING LEGACY EXTENDS TO ITS ROLE AS A PLATFORM FOR MODS THAT WOULD TURN INTO ENDURING STANDALONE FRANCHISES, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LATER GAMES, ESPECIALLY ROCKET LEAGUE.

JEDI REMASTER

DARK FORCES REMASTER is the classic Star Wars FPS upgrade you've been looking for

OLD WORLD BLUES

The beautiful HORIZON: FORBIDDEN WEST COMPLETE EDITION struggles to move on

CUTTER STAID

OUTCAST A NEW BEGINNING rekindles the original game's epic scope

PAWN COCKTAIL

DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 is an exceptional and sometimes infuriating RPG

ALMA MATER

Horror is a family affair in FEAR

VIVE LA RESISTANCE!

Be the deadly dagger in Nazi-occupied France in CLASSIFIED: FRANCE '44

OFF PUTTING

Lee Carvallo's PUTTING CHALLENGE 2: another great Simpsons fan game

VINDIGTUS: DEFYING FATE

Enjoy a spin-off from long-running Korean MMO

MELTDOWN

Your biggest threat in FROSTPUNK 2 isn't a storm of snow. It's the tide of humanity

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE

Few online RPGs have transformed as much in the past decade as The Elder Scrolls Online. First debuting in April of 2014 as a confused, awkward thing, loved by few. Today, it proudly stands alongside its singleplayer peers. Here's how TESO escaped Oblivion's grasp and reconnected with Elder Scrolls fans.

Trigger Happy Shoot first, ask questions later

An on-rails driving simulator can be surprisingly immersive. I may be pootling along strictly under the speed limit, but as I turn a corner I find myself leaning over in my seat as though that will help me get a better view of what’s around the bend.

The Outer Limits

Journeys fo the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

DISPATCHES JUNE

I love playing games. As an almost 40-yearold with a family, though, I spend more time reading about games and writing lists of the games I want to play than actually playing them.

Snap decisions

What inspired the creation of Downpour, which invites you to turn photos into games?

TAILS OF IRON 2: WHISKERS OF WINTER

It's rats versus bats in Odd Bug's chilly sequel

Narrative Engine

Write it like you stole it

VISIONS OF MANA

The action RPG series returns, as light on its feet as ever

PHONOPOLIS

Enter a corrugated dystopia, where everyone's card is marked

Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles

Anyone familiar with the concept of kitbashing is already halfway to understanding what Tomas Sala’s open-world builder is all about.

Dragon's Dogma 2

The road from Vernworth to Bakbattahl is scenic but arduous. Ignore the dawdling mobs of goblins, and duck beneath the chanting harpies that circle on the currents overhead, and even moving at a hurried clip it is impossible for a party of four to complete the journey by nightfall.

BLUE MANCHU

How enforced early retirement eventually led Jonathan Chey back to System Shock