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“Large-scale worlds would be a lot more fun as a little furball”

Touring the post-apocalypse as a cat in STRAY

"Skating mini-ramps for real distracted me from this mission"

OLLIOLLI WORLD's Void Riders DLC brings tractor-beams and extraterrestrial tricks to Radlandia

TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

Immortal Empires is a messy masterpiece.

SHADOW OF SKYRIM: NEMESIS

Elder Scrolls, meet Shadow of Mordor.

RAISE AN IMMORTAL EMPIRE IN TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

Best your rivals in the new trilogy-spanning campaign.

LEARNING THAT CHEATS NEVER PROSPER IN - WWE 2K22

Can the world's most pathetic wrestler capture the gold without winning a match fairly?

MINECRAFT MODS

I can never go back to vanilla tree-punching.

EVOLVE

This asymmetric multiplayer didn’t go extinct, its DNA is everywhere.

BEIGE GOLD

Where does all our OLD HARDWARE end up?

MINI BREAKS

MOONBREAKER feels pure tabletop, but on your PC

BACKPACK HERO

Go a-sidescrolling, your knapsack on your back

VICTORIA 3

Creating utopias and dystopias by gaslight

THE EXCAVATION OF HOB'S BARROW

Eldritch goings on in this folk-horror adventure

MINECRAFT LEGENDS

A strategy spin-off that gives Minecraft a whole new scale

JAGGED ALLIANCE 3

Escaping the spectre of XCOM by never telling you the odds

THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL

A gloriously gory spiritual successor to Dead Space

HOMEWORLD 3

Even in space, you need to use terrain to your advantage

DEAD ISLAND 2

Back from the grave... again. With a vengeance

ASKAN UXPERT

Sprung Studios CEO JAMES CHAYTOR on UI, UX, and why they're so important

UNCATCHABLE

Why has no indie riff on POKÉMON taken off on PC?

PAST OASIS

After admitting its MMO 'sucks,' DONKEY CREW reworks the entire game

BUDGET CASES

Play it smart by saving money on your chassis and spending it on bigger and better components.

DUNGEON OF THE ENDLESS

A simple but effective strategy game that's still my mainstay.

SWING TIME

MARVEL'S SPIDER-MAN REMASTERED is a mostly good port of a mostly good game

SIM KITTY

STRAY is a sparkling feline adventure that always lands on its feet

MOONWALKING

Naoki Yoshida on how FINAL FANTASY XIV found its feet after seven years-and what's next for the behemoth MMO.

A TREASURED ISLAND

There was never meant to be a RETURN TO MONKEY ISLAND-but Ron Gilbert is making the trip.

FARTHEST FRONTIER

A challenging survival city builder from the developer of Grim Dawn

SOULFRAME

After nearly a decade, the Warframe devs have a new game

WARFRAME: THE DUVIRI PARADOX

Digital Extremes is getting into the time loop business