The E3 that wasn't

With the ESA skipping 2022, where does it leave the most important month in games?

MIND GAMES

How developers, scientists and business leaders are wrestling with the complicated prospect of games as tools for mental health

From the ashes

The story behind the premature death – and surprising rebirth – of The Tomorrow Children

Return Of The Obra Dinn

How a horrifying seafaring mystery yarn turned us into willing bureaucrats.

ΤΗΕ MAKING OF... DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS

From FF to 00 and back again: the story of a mountainous journey into the depths

ΤΗΕ LΟΝG GAME

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

PUTTING THE HAMMER DOWN

Warhammer's unstoppable rise within the videogame universe

MOBIUS DIGITAL

The Outer Wilds studio heals its pandemic wounds - and hunts for a new galaxy-brain project

MAKING WAVES

How Darktide takes Vermintide's horde action into the grim darkness of the far future

HOW TO SAY GOODBYE

Moving on, and every which way

Build them up to knock them down

Bulo Studio gives aspiring developers the tools to create full-blown shoot-'em-ups without coding

THE WOLF AMONG US 2

New studio, new season: can Telltale’s return to Fabletown blow our house down?

NEON WHITE

Racing meets rocket jumps in Annapurna’s angelic speedrunner

ANIMAL WELL

A Metroidvania aiming to stand alongside modern classics

NINTENDO SWITCH SPORTS

The legacy of the Wii era lives on in this long-awaited successor

De Blob

How an educational demo expanded its canvas, in an attempt to take on Mario

COLLECTED WORKS ED ROTBERG

Meet a man from the forefront of gaming’s momentous leap into 3D

A HIGHLAND SONG

Alive with the sound of music

WHITE PAPER GAMES

Ten years of ambition, mistakes, and learning from them

Sifu

It strives to replicate the feeling of mastering an actual martial art, and that means doing it repeatedly

Dying Light 2: Stay Human

There’s a deflated feeling, usually associated with the penultimate episode of a pot-luck Netflix miniseries, that comes once you realise you’re no longer in narratively safe hands.

AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE

Exploring the rise of the factory sim genre – and what it says about automation in our own lives

THE ANACRUSIS

This successor to Left 4 Dead risks getting lost in space

SLITTERHEAD

Silent Hill and Siren’s director promises a completely new strain of action-horror

Back to reality

Has waning hype freed VR to shift up a gear in 2022?

STUDIO FIZBIN

From card tricks to juice shops: telling stories with one of Germany’s premier indies

Unreliable Narrator

Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Valheim

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

Year of reckoning

Reviewing another difficult 12 months across the game industry