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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
Martha Is Dead
Photography becomes gruesome in LKA’s historical horror.
The Making Of... Outer Wilds
The many reincarnations of Mobius Digital’s transcendent space adventure
Haven
The maker of Furi breaks into romantic comedy.
Dream Factory
Inside Google’s bid to launch Stadia and transform the entire game industry
Collected Works Eric Chahi
The Another World dev looks back on a career that began before he’d even left school.
Synced: Off Planet
The cyborg horde is your ally in Tencent’s undead blaster
Kerbal Space Program 2
A landmark space sim leaves its home solar system behind
Roki
A group of Killzone veterans rediscover the mystery of childhood
Predator; Hunting Grounds
Illfonic trades Jason’s hockey mask for dreadlocks and thermal vision
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons…
Chicory
The follow-up to Wandersong is another cheerful, creative treat
An Audience With… Helen Chiang
Microsoft’s head of Minecraft on being responsible for a global phenomenon
Player Power
The biggest streamer on the planet abandons Twitch, and begins a new chapter in the evolution of game broadcasting
Final Stage
A somewhat flat Gamescom 2019 reflects a console generation that has run its course
Switcher Perspective
How CD Projekt Red has adapted the world that made it famous to fit inside Nintendo’s flagship console
What's Next
At E3 2018, the next generation kicks off – but only in theory.
My Favourite Game Paul Scheer
The SAG-winning actor on bad films, games, and the broken link between the two.
Firesprite
How persistence paid off for a family of Studio Liverpool alumni.
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
Developer/publisher Ubisoft (Milan, Paris) Format Switch Release 2017.