Dependable independents

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

Performance anxieties

Why are developers failing to deliver 60fps from hardware that promised to hit the mark?

Ghostwire: Tokyo

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

Pathologic 2

How a tale of sickness and displacement inspired by Russian literature became a chilling prophecy

LEAGUE OF GEEKS

How a cancelled project for Take-Two led the Armello dev to redouble its efforts

ΤΗΕ MAKING OF... CARD SHARK

How Kubrick and magic tricks inspired a whole lot of cheating

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

SEEKING SOLIS

How an indie studio fulfilled its plan to deliver a TV-quality sci-fi thriller - with the help of two of videogames' brightest stars

THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE: NECROM

Magic, memory and Morrowind: getting to the crux of it with 2023’s expansion

Citizen Sleeper

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

Final Fantasy XV

A royal camping trip that went awry – but found partial redemption in the friends made along the way

KEOKEN INTERACTIVE

From the kitchen table to the stars: how a pair of sibling dreamers achieved lift-off

WEIRD WEST

How a team of former Arkane devs wrangled an increasingly Wild West

THE WISDOM OF CROWDS

The story of Humanity: how Enhance’s unique puzzler is seeking to recapture the spirit of early PlayStation

NET GAINS

Can Netflix become a game-publishing powerhouse to match its ambitions in TV and film?

BUILT DIFFERENT

How Heart Machine’s Hyper Light sequel is breaking new ground for the open-world Roguelike

VIEWFINDER

A picturesque puzzler with far more than one weird trick to show you

DIABLO IV

Blizzard's infernal ARPG opens its gates

RHYTHM STORM

Rebel against the beat in this pulsating arcade Roguelike

SHADOWS OF DOUBT

Sending the investigation genre in a whole new direction

EUROPA

This Ghibli-inspired adventure looks positively dreamy

THE FINALS

Fame and fortune await – if you don’t get flattened first

FINAL FANTASY XVI

Purists may cry as the RPG series embraces action

REDFALL

Arkane vamps it up in its open-world co-op shooter

ASOBO STUDIO

The journey from Garfield and Pixar tie-ins to A Plague Tale and Flight Simulator

ΤΗΕ ΜΑΚΙΝG ΟF...METAL: HELLSINGER

From a cancelled project to locked-down singers: how the heavy-metal shooter was forged

AN AUDIENCE WITH...GOICHI SUDA

Grasshopper Manufacture's founder talks creativity, counterculture, and becoming a \"weird old dude\"

REDEMPTION SONG

After Us explores the difficulty of telling stories of apocalypse and reparation through the lens of an action game

EVERYTHING EVERY WHERE ALL AT ONCE

How Leslie Benzies and a team of former Rockstars are building an allencompassing multiverse