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Batman: Arkham Asylum

Lauded on release, the passage of time reveals a curious lack of character

The Making Of... Observation

How Alien met 2001: the untold story of No Code’s stellar sci-fi

VOXEL POPULI

How the heirs to Minecraft’s throne are building Hytale, a next-generation blockgame that gives the power to the people

ZOMBIE ARMY 4: DEAD WAR

A surprisingly lively undead shooter

STUDIO PROFILE - INKLE

The 80 Days developer on burnout and reinvention

THE ROOM VR:A DARK MATTER

Get inside Fireproof Games’ puzzle boxes like never before

DRAKE HOLLOW

The Molasses Flood takes us hand-in-hand through its plant life

COLLECTED WORKS - NAOKI YOSHIDA

How a career as a known fixer led to the biggest rescue job of all

THE LONG GAME

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

The Banner Saga Trilogy

On the weight of leadership and shouldering three games’ worth of consequences

CHAOS ENGINE

More games than ever run on randomness, and it’s transformed the industry. But for better or worse?

WEST OF DEAD

The quick and the undead

Weapon X

Microsoft kicks off the next generation of the console war with the unveiling of Xbox Series X

TEQUILA WORKS

The Madrid studio on ‘creating with gusto’ and refusing to get drunk on success

HADES

A second trip to the underworld proves even more enjoyable than the first

RING BEARER

Under the skin of Gollum, a next-generation Lord Of The Rings game

East, west, home's best

The Indian videogame scene is about to explode – and the India Game Developer Conference has been preparing the country

Red Dead Redemption 2

Developer Rockstar Studios Publisher Rockstar Games Format PC, PS4, Xbox One Release 2018

The Sims

On Maxis’ iconic living snapshot of ’90s America

The Great Journey

How an all-star musical lineup changed videogame soundtracks forever

Back In The Fight

Blizzard gambled when it announced Overwatch 2, a sort-of sequel without a release date. But it might pay off: right now the world needs heroes

An Audience With… Aaron Keller

Blizzard’s assistant director on Warcraft, working lunches and Overwatch’s baby steps

11 Bit Studios

How pirated software and wartime solidarity built Poland’s most principled developer

Slay The Spire

Developer/publisher Mega Crit Format PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One Release 2019

Games Of The Decade

Bowing down before the defining titles of the 2010s

Flavourworks

How a taste for independence and innovation cooked up the UK’s next dev sensation

Detention

How a Taiwanese horror game made us face the sins of the past

Death Stranding

Sony said we couldn’t review Hideo Kojima’s latest game unless we finished it. Fine, we said. Then we played it

My Favourite Game Logan Marshall-Green

The star of the silver screen on his role in evolving the FMV genre, TV shows as RPGs – and the Hearthstone ladder grind

The Eternal Cylinder

Survival gaming with a powerful sense of the inevitable