PHANTOM PAIN

The unseen side of the occult in PHASMOPHOBIA

ALMA MATER

Horror is a family affair in FEAR

OFF PUTTING

Lee Carvallo's PUTTING CHALLENGE 2: another great Simpsons fan game

BEST BEHAVIOR

Donkey Crew's lead gameplay developer, SERGII GREBEN, on programming AI for NPCs

THE GOD FACTORY

A group of players built a record-breaking plant

GRIM FANDANGO

Death is a slave to the city in LucasArts' last great adventure.

GET STARTED IN HELLDIVERS 2

Take to the stars and fight for managed democracy.

OLD WORLD BLUES

The beautiful HORIZON: FORBIDDEN WEST COMPLETE EDITION struggles to move on

LEVEL ZERO: EXTRACTION

Tarkov meets Alien in this terrifying extraction shooter

EIYUDEN CHRONICLE: HUNDRED HEROES

Spiritual successor to Suikoden promises an grand adventure

VINDIGTUS: DEFYING FATE

Enjoy a spin-off from a long-running Korean MMO

PAWN COCKTAIL

DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 is an exceptional and sometimes infuriating RPG

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE

Few online RPGs have transformed as much in the past decade as The Elder Scrolls Online. First debuting in April of 2014 as a confused, awkward thing, loved by few. Today, it proudly stands alongside its single-player peers. Here’s how TESO escaped Oblivion’s grasp and reconnected with Elder Scrolls fans.

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004

TWENTY YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE GREATEST FPS FRANCHISES ON PC PEAKED WITH UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004. REMARKABLE IN ITS OWN RIGHT, ITS STRIKING LEGACY EXTENDS TO ITS ROLE AS A PLATFORM FOR MODS THAT WOULD TURN INTO ENDURING STANDALONE FRANCHISES, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LATER GAMES, ESPECIALLY ROCKET LEAGUE.

MELTDOWN

Your biggest threat in FROSTPUNK 2 isn't a storm of snow. It's the tide of humanity

TERMINATOR: RESISTANCE

Revisiting Teyon’s game after Robocop: Rogue City.

RICH'N BEEFY

LIKE A DRAGON: INFINITE WEALTH is a dizzyingly huge all-you-can-eat Yakuza buffet

ROUND 8 FIGHT!

TEKKEN 8 is a blend of nostalgia for fans and a pair of welcoming arms for newbies

HOLY HELL

THE INQUISITOR is a grim yet strangely gripping dark fantasy adventure

SHOT DEAD

There are flashes of greatness in SUICIDE SQUAD: KILL THE JUSTICE LEAGUE

THE BEST NON-TRADITIONAL WAR GAMES

Is it possible for wargamers to give peace a chance?

WHEELIE GOOD

Freewheeling with Northern Irish indie studio Billy Goat Entertainment and its next project, PARCEL CORPS

PALWORLD

Shockingly, animal cruelty doesn't make for a fulfilling experience

DIVINE FREQUENCY

This horror-RPG-FPS built in the Doom engine is terrifying

AVOWED

Obsidian's next RPG goes all in on first-person action

INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE

A whip-cracking look at the newly revealed first-person adventure

MOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

PHIL STILGOE and JOE ELLS of Centroid UK on the art of motion capture

A SCUM SUPREME

Developers weigh-in on save scumming

YELLOW RAT'S REVENGE

How a DMCA'd PALWORLD modder got back at Nintendo

HERIKA-THE CHATGPT COMPANION

Skyrim with a follower using OpenAl's chatbot.