CATEGORIES

BONAPARTE: A MECHANIZED REVOLUTION

No sooner have we stepped into the boots of royal guard Bonaparte than we’re faced with a life-altering decision.

TOWERS OF AGHASBA

Watch Towers Of Aghasba in action and it feels vast. Given your activities range from deepwater dives to climbing up cliffs or lumbering beasts, and from nurturing plants or building settlements to pinging arrows at the undead, it’s hard to get a bead on the game’s limits.

THE STONE OF MADNESS

The makers of Blasphemous return to religion and insanity

Vampire Survivors

As Vampire Survivors expanded through early access and then its two first DLCs, it gained arenas, characters and weapons, but the formula remained unchanged.

Devil May Cry

The Resident Evil 4 that never was, and the Soulslike precursor we never saw coming

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

With Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare has made a deeply self-conscious game, visibly inspired by some of the best-loved ideas from Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

SKATE STORY

Hades is a halfpipe

SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION VII

Firaxis rethinks who makes history, and how it unfolds

FINAL FANTASY VII: REBIRTH

Remaking an iconic game was daunting enough then the developers faced the difficult second entry

THUNDER LOTUS

How Spirit farer's developer tripled in size without tearing itself apart

OUT OF THE SHADOWS

Co-development is now a huge part of triple-A game production. Can it provide safe harbour at a turbulent time for the industry?

MASTER CRAFT

How Blizzard changed the world, then spent 20 years changing its World

MUTATION NATION

A warped world awaits in Tarsier Studios' latest horror. At least this time you can bring a friend

HERDLING

Gather your flock and escape to the country

NO MORE ROOM IN HELL 2

You're not alone in the dark

WINDBLOWN

Life after Dead Cells

COLLECTED WORKS - JOSH SAWYER

Journeying to the Forgotten Realms, Infinity and beyond with the RPG veteran

SCREENBOUND

Going deep in a mind-bending hybrid of perspectives

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Grand strategist

Paradox's Mattias Lilja addresses the publisher's recent difficulties - and the plan to right the ship

Diablo IV

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

Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection

In Capcom's diabolical tribute, evil goes far deeper than the demons on the screen

SERENITY FORGE

How a near-death experience lit a fire in the Colorado-based developer and publisher

THE MAKING OF...ALIEN: ISOLATION

How a strategy-led studio built a survival horror masterpiece in Ridley Scott's image

RACING INTO THE FUTURE

How Wipeout, one of the defining games of the original PlayStation era, found its identity

ARTFUL DODGERS

Sandfall Interactive is relying on youth, surrealism and perfect timing to freshen up the turn-based RPG

Q-GAMES

How Dylan Cuthbert went from Nintendo and PlayStation to the Kyoto indie scene

JUSANT

How the Life Is Strange team traded time travel for mountain climbing

LENS FLAIR

How developers are reinventing their worlds through the eye of a camera.

ESCAPE VELOCITY

How the creators of Journey To The Savage Planet emerged from Stadia's rubble to start again.