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Pacific Drive

When all you can count on are your wheels

Dream of the crop

The 2023 Impy awards saw one particular entry winning in multiple categories

No Man's Sky

You should make space in your collection for this star

Viewfinder - Another point of view

The chill environments of Viewfinder, with its blend of space-white, vaguely Modernist architecture and the odd bit of vegetation, makes us think of both Portal and The Witness. Like them it's also a first-person puzzler, with the latter's sense of mystery as to exactly what's going on and where we are. But, just like our enthusiastically voiced protagonist, we're mostly occupied by what we can do.

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!

Series producers Katsuhiro Harada and Michael Murray talk Tekken 8, and how it uses PS5's power to usher in a new fighting generation

Simply en-raptor-ing or a T-wreck?

Are Exoprimal's live-service ambitions more dated than its fossilised foes?

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

Can you solve the unknowable?

30 YEARS OF FIFA

Ben Wilson digs into the story of gaming's biggest sports series - as told by those who made it happen

Diablo IV Mother has arrived

Daughter of Hatred, Mother of the mortal realm, a figure as storied as she is horned – Lilith has returned to Sanctuary. Wherever she roams, darkness awakens in the hearts of all those near, and the blood of innocents flows in a sea of tribute to her.

E3 no more

The event's been cancelled, but it was never the only option for summer fun

Dead Island 2

Trouble in paradise

The Last Worker

Deliver me a revolution

Tchia

This archipelago adventure has soul

The Land of Nod

Harmony: The Fall Of Reverie needs to sing... and it just might!

C-Smash VRS

A cult classic breaks out once more

"THE ULTIMATE COMFORT GAMING EXPERIENCE? I'VE MINIFIGURED IT OUT."

Lego games click together to fill a cosy niche that's like nothing else

"SHOULD 'JRPG' BE RETIRED AS A TERM, OR DOES IT HAVE MEANING?"

Naoki Yoshida makes a valid point, but what should we all do?

THE HISTORY OF DIABLO

Blizzard’s writers and loremasters give us a guided tour of DIABLO’S story so far, and what it all means for Diablo IV

LIVING HELL

DIABLO IV refines the ARPG series for a new era

ISLE OF MAN TT: RIDE ON THE EDGE 3

What’s that coming over the hill – is it a (Ducati) Monster?

WAYFINDER

An MMO from the teams behind Warframe and Darksiders

WARTALES

Wander a land filled with danger and unpleasant wildlife

CORE RETURNS

ARMORED CORE VI marks the first PC entry in the cult classic mecha sim saga

THE NEW WEST

Five years old, HUNT: SHOWDOWN is still the most interesting FPS in gaming

OUTCAST

A cinematic action adventure that reaches for the stars.

HEART AND SOUL

Explore a beautiful tropical island using magic powers in TCHIA

WARHAMMER 40,000: DARKTIDE

After a terrible launch the co-op online shooter is finding its feet.

SPEAKERS AND SOUNDBARS

Let’s test some tweeters and woofers to see which deliver bone-rattling, Earth-shattering audio.

CHARGE DEPLETED

PORTABLE GAMING’s a broader church than ever – are laptops still relevant?

PURPLE PATCH

BONZI BUDDY, the desktop companion who did $1bn of damage