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Sin & Punishment: Successor Of The Skies

How Treasure came out all guns blazing for its last big game

THE MAKING OF... CHICORY: A COLORFUL TALE

From broad strokes to tiny details, how a team of five crafted an adventure-game ode to creativity

KITFOX GAMES

The Montreal indie on boyfriends, Dwarf Fortress, and avoiding overwork

THE SECOND COMING

In 1999, Sony launched what would become the best-selling game console of all time. These are the stories of the people on the ground

Psychonauts 2

The upside of such a large cast is having more brains to probe – and some of them have multiple segments

HALO INFINITE

After six years, is 343 ready to finish the fight?

CHARLES GAMES

The small Czech developer making videogame history

Verses mode

From Wordsworth to Grand Theft Auto V: the unexpected crossover between poetry and videogames

ALTER EGO

How tackling the Marvel universe revealed an unexpected new side of the XCOM team

Bastion

Looking back at the debut game that laid the blueprint for Hades

STAR POWER

How a Hollywood studio became the most exciting force in games

SAINTS ROW

No dildo bats, please, we’re millennials

THE MAKING OF CREAKS

How a Czech art-school project became an eight-year labour of love

The trouble with game development

The Activision Blizzard harassment and discrimination lawsuit has repercussions for the industry as a whole

Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy

Can Eidos Montreal get the best out of the MCU’s misfits?

A new kind of superhero rises

XCOM dev Firaxis reveals its celebration of Marvel’s dark side with Midnight Suns

Back 4 Blood

It’s all for one, and one for braaaiiiinnsss

Final Fantasy VIII

Squall’s well that ends well

Grand paintjob

Remasters of GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas are strongly rumoured

Vitae, vampires, and song

Maxime Moze and Laure Delmas talk to Jess Kinghorn about Big Bad Wolf’s next pretty little ditty, Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong

“WHY NOT BUILD UPON THE EXISTING FOUNDATIONS LAID WITH RESISTANCE?”

Multiplayer in Resident Evil may work, but RE:Verse ain’t it

Back on the Ishimura

Dead Space 2 makes you relive the horror of the first game in service of its own scares

Spider-Man – “Memories Can Have a Big Impact on The Experience and Enjoyment of a Game.”

Experiences surrounding games can make them better or worse

GEAR: STUFF WE LOVE

PS5 beta user? Got it memorised?

A mystery in full bloom

White Paper Games cracks open the case on Conway: Disappearance At Dahlia View

SMOOTH OPERATOR

Killing time rather than targets in HITMAN

AXIOM DISRUPTOR

AXIOM VERGE 2 is less Metroid, more ’vania

ROYAL PAIN

KING’S BOUNTY II does both tactics and RPG, but neither very well

ALIENTIDE

ALIENS: FIRETEAM ELITE isn’t the perfect organism, but it’s decent co-op fun.

POST NO BILLS

Having a jolly holiday with parcels in POSTBIRD IN PROVENCE