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TAILS OF IRON 2: WHISKERS OF WINTER

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

PHONOPOLIS

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

Narrative Engine

Write it like you stole it

The Outer Limits

Journeys fo the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

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.

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.

Here be Dragons

What does Poland's key game dev conference have in store?

Snap decisions

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

Absolute state of the union

What this year's GDC says about the present and future of video game development

Hi-Fi Rush

A progress report on the games we just can't quit

Dragon's Lair

An old-fashioned dose of movie magic - but one that trades in a novel type of glamour

DAMBUSTER STUDIOS

How the former Free Radical found the fun amid corporate crises

THE MAKING OF... HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER

How Blackbird Interactive cracked the formula for a sci-fi tale of dystopian deconstruction

DREAM TICKET

As Media Molecule prepares to move on, we get the inside track on Tren, its spectacular swan song for Dreams

SILENCE IS GORDON

Why does the mute protagonist still loom large over the landscape of firstperson-viewed games?

AS ABOVE SO BELOW

After 13 years, Remedy is ready to make the game of its dreams

LAIKA: AGED THROUGH BLOOD

This apocalypse is not for the birds

FOREVER SKIES

Though its knightly get-ups remind us of the Arthurian tone of Dark Souls, and its gothic environments carry the miasma of Bloodborne’s Yharnam, it doesn’t take long for Hexworks’ Soulslike to spill beyond the mould in which it’s been set.

LORDS OF THE FALLEN

Though its knightly get-ups remind us of the Arthurian tone of Dark Souls, and its gothic environments carry the miasma of Bloodborne’s Yharnam, it doesn’t take long for Hexworks’ Soulslike to spill beyond the mould in which it’s been set.

Final inning

The life and death of Blaseball, one of gaming's strangest experiments

Video gaze

Why has an assistive technology firm released a compilation of minigames?

Deal of the decade

Microsoft's Activision plan satisfies US courts and (most) third parties thanks to a series of ten-year concessions

TRIBAND GAMES

How the studio behind What The Golf? carved out a niche by defying expectations

THE CASE GOLDEN OF THE IDOL

How two Latvian brothers, seeking to build a better tower defence, instead reimagined the whodunnit

ROGUE LEADER

As Ubisoft makes its big Star Wars debut, Massive makes the bold decision to go small

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

DISPATCHES SEPTEMBER

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Vision quest

Apple finally reveals its XR hardware as Meta scrambles to hail the arrival of a revised Quest

Shadow of the colossusS

With E3 struck off the calendar left of the biggest week in videre's?

TIMES & GALAXY

Robot journalists? A dystopian vision indeed