STRAY GODS: THE ROLEPLAYING MUSICAL

Making choices, awaking voices

COUNTER-STRIKE 2

Anyone seeking clues to the inscrutable Valve’s grand plan for Counter-Strike should look back at CS:GO’s release back in 2012.

BLASPHEMOUS 2

An expansive sequel embraces its inner Castlevania

DISPATCHES AUGUST

Like most people, every waking minute of the past week has involved playing and consuming Tears Of The Kingdom content, but while my timeline has been completely inundated with crazy contraptions and crucified Koroks, it’s Ascend that has surprised me the most out of Link’s arsenal of new powers

Alternate Reality

Adrian Hon on the transformative leap of The Last Clockwinder

AN AUDIENCE WITH... HENRIQUE OLIFIERS

The Bossa boss on selling off hits, doubling down on co-op, and reinventing the ZX Spectrum

Gathering of developers

This year's Develop conference in Brighton features an abundance of game-making talent

All hands on Deck

As the portable PC race hots up, we two rivals to Valve's game-changing weigh up handheld

THE MAKING OF TUNIC

A game made in the margins

ENDNIGHT GAMES

How The Forest gave a tiny studio an outsized success

SYNAPTIC LEAP

After a decade in VR, UK studio nDreams is ready for the big time

SALTSEA CHRONICLES

All aboard for an ensemble adventure

COCOON

A beautiful puzzle adventure emerges from its chrysalis

TIMES & GALAXY

Robot journalists? A dystopian vision indeed

The Case Of The Golden Idol

Color Gray Games’ detective adventure seemed an unlikely candidate for an expansion

X-Com: UFO Defense

What did Firaxis leave behind when adapting alien-invasion strategy for the modern world?

Creative crucible

The creator of Shadowrun returns with Adventure Forge, an entirely code-free game-creation kit

DEEP TROUBLES

The Chinese Room drills into a rich vein of '70s horror in terrifying firstperson chiller Still Wakes The Deep

Trigger Happy

Steven Poole gets existential about the miracle of Humanity

ONE LIFE LEFT 2023

Faith Johnson reports on Norwich's premiere gaming convention

The Legend Lives On: 20 YEARS OF Out Run 2

TWENTY YEARS AGO AN ARCADE RACING LEGEND WAS BORN AND GAMERS WERE TAKEN ON A BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY THAT CONTINUES TO THIS DAY. JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY BY SITTING DOWN WITH SUMO DIGITAL TO CHART THE ENDURING HISTORY OF OUTRUN 2

Future Classic

Modern games you’ll still be playing in years to come

ULTIMATE GUIDE GHOSTBUSTERS

YOU MIGHT THINK SOMEONE TRYING TO BOLT THIS MOVIE LICENCE ONTO A CAR COMBAT GAME WOULDN'T HAVE A GHOST OF A CHANCE, BUT DAVID CRANE MADE IT WORK. WE LOOK BACK AT A GAME THAT, DESPITE THE ODDS, CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF ITS SOURCE MATERIAL

Our friends are all aboard

I am very late to the Sea Of Thieves party, but what a party it is.

RichCast

Philip Oliver on the immersive storytelling app evoking memories of age-old adventures

THE LATEST NEWS FROM OCTOBER 2006

Sony and Nintendo might have been preparing to unleash shiny new hardware, but the Xbox 360 was retaining player attention with games like Capcom’s Dead Rising, which offered a journalistic mystery to uncover and a mall full of zombies to slaughter.

THE MAKING OF TURBO THE TORTOISE

TURBO THE TORTOISE RACED ON TO THE THREE MOST POPULAR 8-BITS JUST AS THEY WERE REACHING THE FINISHING LINE. SO, TO MAKE THIS BUDGET RELEASE MORE ATTRACTIVE, THE DEVELOPERS DECIDED TO GIVE PLAYERS A TASTE OF GAMING ON CONSOLES

THE MAKING OF BLADE WARRIOR

BEFORE CREATING MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING EMPIRE REBELLION WITH HIS BROTHER CHRIS IN THE EARLY NINETIES, JASON KINGSLEY SET OUT TO CREATE A UNIQUE AND HUGELY ATMOSPHERIC 16-BIT GAME CALLED PALADIN LORD OF THE DANCING BLADES, LATER RENAMED TO BLADE WARRIOR

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom

NOTHING TO CRY ABOUT

FROM BIG BOX TO BIG WEBSITE

Meet the collector who shares his collection online