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BOYFRIEND DUNGEON

A dating sim where you romance deadly weapons

WEIRD WEST

A new perspective on immersive sims

Escape Zoom

The Isklander trilogy mixes detective games, video calls and immersive theatre

HEAVENLY BODIES

Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space

PHANTOM ABYSS

A game about survival where you run toward the ghosts

Ring of Steel

How a small Sheffield indie was entrusted with the future of boxing videogames

FAR CRY 6

Taking a stealthy look inside Ubisoft’s revolutionary guerrilla thriller

Gabe gear

Steam Deck: can Valve’s portable PC succeed where Steam Machines failed?

THE ARTFUL ESCAPE

Is this sci-firock opera bound for the big time?

The wisdom of crowds

With its ScavLab tech, Improbable is designing for 10,000 players at once

WEIRD WEST

A cowboy RPG from a team that has earned its spurs

Rainbow Six Extraction

These operators lay siege to a new genre entirely

The AIs have it

AI: The Somnium Files’ sequel loads up more mystery

Trails towards the future

Nihon Falcom celebrates 40 years by releasing a slew of JRPGs in English

Vampires, kickflips, revolution, RoboCop

No matter your predilection, Nacon Connect had something for everyone

Civilian casualties

Zone Of The Enders doesn’t pull any punches in its brutal opening

Back from the dead

Far Cry 6’s DLC resurrects classic villains

Basketball's an art

Artist Charly Palmer on painting NBA 2K22’s cover art

Beyond Good & Evil

What if Pokémon Snap were political commentary?

A cut above

Ghost Of Tsushima Director’s Cut is coming to both PS5 and PS4

Project Zero: Maiden Of Black Water

Dripping with terror, a classic series is ready for its close up

VIDEODAMES

The grandma gamers of the GRAND DAMES

PSYCHOBABBLE

SCARLET NEXUS’ excellent combat system buffers a classically unhinged anime story

VERBAL REMEDY

Mixed signals and missing punchlines in the otherwise brilliant THIMBLEWEED PARK

“Thousands of people helped me and they never even knew it”

FINAL FANTASY XIV versus maternity

FUN WITH PORTALS

WORLD OF WARCRAFT: THE BURNING CRUSADE CLASSIC is still great, but the grind is real

POD: PLANET OF DEATH

Ubisoft’s racer faces a second apocalypse.

FOR THE ORDER

Go out without a limb in CHIVALRY II’s glorious medieval battles

SHOCK & AWE

COMPANY OF HEROES 3 is coming to wake up the RTS genre.

LEGO ISLANDS

LEGO BUILDER’S JOURNEY captures the joy of those little plastic bricks