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BIG IN BRAZIL

Don't know any LATIN AMERICAN GAME STUDIOS by name? That's about to change

VIVA LAS PHOENIX

Meet the erotic roleplayers making a living in FINAL FANTASY XIV’s mini Vegas

HARDWARE FAILURE

How a botched giveaway brought down a multi-million dollar PC BUILDER

GO PHISH

Stack the deck in your favor in CARD SHARK

CHOP CHOP

Another slice of cyber-mystery in AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES—NIRVANA INITIATIVE

GLORIOUS SUNSET

MONSTER HUNTER RISE: SUNBREAK is more of the same, but luckily the same is fantastic

SMOOTH OPERATOR

F1 22 is sheer class, but who hears barrel scraping?

SHELL POWER

Thanks to plenty of turtle wax, TMNT: SHREDDER’S REVENGE shines

WARHAMMER 40K: DARKTIDE

A confident, carnage-filled step forward from Vermintide

STARFIELD

No Man’s Sky meets Skyrim, with a touch of FreeSpace

SAVE ROOM FOR DESERT

COMPANY OF HEROES 3’s second campaign is all explosive RTS action, all the time.

NORTHERN LIGHTS

Inside the dioramic mind of Oskar Stålberg, creator of TOWNSCAPER

UNDER SIEGE

How the Russian invasion is affecting UKRAINIAN studios

BALD DECISIONS

How LARIAN broke out of the B-tier to master the Western RPG

FRENEMIES WITHIN

MARVEL'S MIDNIGHT SUNS defies every expectation an XCOM player could have.

Our bodies were robots and our weapons were dunks

Flailing and balling in CRYPTIC SEA'S BASKETBALL GAME

This type of blockbuster just doesn't get made anymore

Diving into the gloriously stupid past with STRANGLEHOLD

GUILD WARS 2

Enjoying End of Dragons from the sidelines.

YAKUZA O'S HOSTESS CLUB

Cabaret Club Czar could be a whole standalone game.

DARK MATTER

OLED is the TV standard now-so why not in monitors?

PROPHET MARGIN

The real cost of running CRYSIS in 2007, upgrade by upgrade

RIDE ON TIME

MOTOGP 22 looks back at an historic season in style

TIME ON FROG ISLAND

Explore a colorful island and trade items with lovely frogs

OVER WATCH 2

Blizzard’s new entry doesn’t quite earn sequel status

SMASHING STUFF

Tearing down TEARDOWN’s voxelated worlds never gets old

FAMILY VALUES

ROGUE LEGACY 2 joins its forebear in the roguelite hall of fame

SANDS OF TIME

A masterful sci-fi adaptation that shaped the future of the RTS? That would be DUNE II

RELIABLE NARRATOR

Buckets of new features come to THE STANLEY PARABLE: ULTRA DELUXE

INSIDE BASEBALL

How 38 STUDIOS’ failed MMO gave us Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

DESERT POWER

For the first time in 20 years, war returns to Arrakis in real-time 4X DUNE: SPICE WARS