Children Of The Sun

René Rother’s acrid revenge thriller – an action game with its limbs broken and forcibly rearranged into the shape of a spatial puzzler – is at once a bonafide original and an unlikely throwback. Cast your eyes right and you wouldn’t blink if we told you this was a forgotten Grasshopper Manufacture game from the early PS3 era (we won’t be at all surprised if this finds a spot on Suda51’s end-of-year list).

Rise Of The Ronin

Falling in battle simply switches control to the next person up, and then quick revive fixes everything

THE MAKING 0F.... AMERICAN ARCADIA

How a contrast of perspectives added extra layers to a side-scrolling platform game

VOID SOLS

This abstract indie Soulslike has some bright ideas

Here be Dragons

What does Poland's key game dev conference have in store?

Absolute state of the union

What this year's GDC says about the present and future of video game development

DAMBUSTER STUDIOS

How the former Free Radical found the fun amid corporate crises

SILENCE IS GORDON

Why does the mute protagonist still loom large over the landscape of firstperson-viewed games?

FOREVER SKIES

Though its knightly get-ups remind us of the Arthurian tone of Dark Souls, and its gothic environments carry the miasma of Bloodborne’s Yharnam, it doesn’t take long for Hexworks’ Soulslike to spill beyond the mould in which it’s been set.

Final inning

The life and death of Blaseball, one of gaming's strangest experiments

Video gaze

Why has an assistive technology firm released a compilation of minigames?

Deal of the decade

Microsoft's Activision plan satisfies US courts and (most) third parties thanks to a series of ten-year concessions

TRIBAND GAMES

How the studio behind What The Golf? carved out a niche by defying expectations

ROGUE LEADER

As Ubisoft makes its big Star Wars debut, Massive makes the bold decision to go small

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

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Vision quest

Apple finally reveals its XR hardware as Meta scrambles to hail the arrival of a revised Quest

TIMES & GALAXY

Robot journalists? A dystopian vision indeed

SALTSEA CHRONICLES

All aboard for an ensemble adventure

COCOON

A beautiful puzzle adventure emerges from its chrysalis

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?

SYNAPTIC LEAP

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

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

Creative crucible

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

Dependable independents

After 3,000 games and ten years, ID@Xbox thunders on. But what guides its journey?

Ghostwire: Tokyo

One of Shinji Mikami’s goals for Tango Gameworks was to give a younger generation of developers chance to shine.

FEAR THE OLD BLOOD

The dark magic of Bloodborne lingers, even as FromSoftware moves on to pastures new

DIVIDE AND CONQUER

Weighing up the delicate imbalance of asymmetrical multiplayer