An even newer nightmare

Alone In The Dark is being remade with a star-studded cast

Racing royale-ty

Sumo's Stampede: Racing Royale asks you to lead a 60-player pack

Cyberpunk's not dead

Is Phantom Liberty the hard reboot that CD Projekt's troubled RPG needs?

THE FUTURE OF PS5

ASPSS enters its third year, PlayStation has a vision for how to strengthen its already-impressive console, from releasing blockbuster single player games to empowering creative indies, investing in online play, and oringing out new bits of plastic. We pick apart the new announcements, the quieter rumours, and the trends hat are creating a PS5-shaped future for gaming

THE POETRY OF FEAR

Unsettling, gripping, and deliciously frightening, Alan Wake 2 is shaping up to be a sequel worth the wait. Jess Kinghorn interrogates Remedy's usual suspects and cracks the case wide open

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores

Get ready for sun, sand, and to crash-land

The Mageseeker: A League Of Legends Story

The great mage rebellion needs a brighter spark

IS X GON' GIVE IT TO YA?

Worlds collide and bullets fly in XDefiant, Ubisoft's promising free-to-play crossover shooter. Dashiell Wood deploys to find out if it has what it takes

Creed: Rise To Glory Championship Edition

Only just fails the weigh in

Forget me not

Jeremy Peel delves into the catacombs to exhume the games that made D&D's Forgotten Realms a fixture on PlayStation

Roll up, roll up!

Jess Kinghorn on why Baldur's Gate 3 is shaping up to be a natural 20

DEV ACCESS - Serving up

Jörg Tittel, Ryan Bousfield, and Rob Davis reveal how C-Smash VRS is hitting it out of the park on PSVR2

Honkai: Star Rail

(Inter)stellar RPG shoots for the turn-based moon

Aiming down sights

How Unreal Engine 5 powers precise shooting on PSVR2

Sweet Tooth bites

Twisted Metal's streaming series blends action and comedy on Peacock

PLAY INVESTIGATES - Goodbye FIFA, hello EA Sports FC

EA has published the FIFA series since its Mega Drive inception back in 1993

Airship Syndicate opens up its world

Where there's a will, there's a Wayfinder: the devs discuss their ambitious quest-'em-up

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

Can you solve the unknowable?

No Man's Sky

You should make space in your collection for this star

The Last Worker

Deliver me a revolution

The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR

It's been scaring us in the face all along

Tchia

This archipelago adventure has soul

Dead Island 2

Trouble in paradise

Pacific Drive

When all you can count on are your wheels

Crime Boss: Rockay City - Once upon a crime

Boasting an all-star cast of antiquated action legends including Chuck Norris, Michael Madsen, and Danny Trejo, this isn’t just a throwback to the Hollywood crime thrillers of the 1990s but an era of gaming long past.

Sonic Origins Plus

Game Gear games, playable Amy, and physical copies incoming

C-Smash VRS

A cult classic breaks out once more

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.

"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?