CATEGORIES

Dead Island 2 - Put stars in zombie eyes

We only review finished games, so in Viewpoint we go hands-on with near-final code of a game that just missed our review deadline. Oscar Taylor-Kent got off the plane at LAX for a quick five hours of fame with the starry-eyed Dead Island 2.

Darkest Dungeon II

Once more unto the breach for further punishment

Truly Eikonic

Final Fantasy XVI shows why the series is the reigning RPG champion

Atomic Heart

Stay clear of this absolute atomic bomb

Wayfinder

Finds a way to make the MMORPG feel fresh

"I explode another SinTEK goon's head"

Revelling in SiN

Captain's Log

Star Trek: Resurgence is more game, but not like we know it, captain

SHINING BRIGHT

HONKAI: STAR RAIL is the new game in the HoYoverse, which looks to be smartly evolving mìHoYo's Genshin Impact megahit.

WANDS UP

HOGWARTS LEGACY is the best Potter game yet, but a hard one to get excited about

OUTSOURCED CODE

Why writers and game devs are worried about CHAT GPT

EASTWORLD

ATOMIC HEART is a beautiful, flawed, and deeply weird Soviet Westworld

"I grab the downed soldier's weapon and start firing on his colleagues"

HITMAN 3'S Freelancer mode taught me I'm not as good as I think

BULLET LIMBO

RETURNAL is a roguelike shooter at war with its own identity

QI TO THE KINGDOMS

WO LONG redefines the action RPG with spectacle and depth

DEEP THOUGHTS

LABYRINTH OF GALLERIA is a dizzyingly deep dungeon-crawl from Disgaea's devs

THE HISTORY OF GOD GAMES

A small genre that leaves an almighty footprint

CHARACTER BUFFS

Tiny changes that make PC gaming healthier

DEAD STRANGE

Not everyone will want to read WANTED: DEAD'S love letter to 2000s action games

CLUB MED

COMPANY OF HEROES 3 is a fantastic RTS with a main campaign that just doesn't work

"We should be asking for more variety in our open worlds"

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CHAPTER ONE is a vision of the untapped potential of the genre

AN AUDIENCE WITH...GOICHI SUDA

Grasshopper Manufacture's founder talks creativity, counterculture, and becoming a \"weird old dude\"

RHYTHM STORM

Rebel against the beat in this pulsating arcade Roguelike

SHADOWS OF DOUBT

Sending the investigation genre in a whole new direction

EUROPA

This Ghibli-inspired adventure looks positively dreamy

ASOBO STUDIO

The journey from Garfield and Pixar tie-ins to A Plague Tale and Flight Simulator

EVERYTHING EVERY WHERE ALL AT ONCE

How Leslie Benzies and a team of former Rockstars are building an allencompassing multiverse

FINAL FANTASY XVI

Purists may cry as the RPG series embraces action

REDFALL

Arkane vamps it up in its open-world co-op shooter

THE FINALS

Fame and fortune await – if you don’t get flattened first

ΤΗΕ ΜΑΚΙΝG ΟF...METAL: HELLSINGER

From a cancelled project to locked-down singers: how the heavy-metal shooter was forged