The Dame Was Loaded

An FMV adventure where the clock is always ticking.

Silly Season

Playground Games Plays The Long Game In Forza Horizon 4.

Simulation Complete

It’s Always Worth Double-checking In Frozen Synapse 2.

Half-life: Echoes

Relive the Black Mesa incident all over again in this expansion-quality story mod.

Imperator: Rome

I came, I saw, I made a great big mess

Cyberpunk 2077

An in-depth look at CD Projekt RED’s ambitious new RPG

Beyond Blue

Jump forward a decade with this stunning underwater mystery

Anatomy Of An Explosion

Video games love a good explosion, but how are these spectacular effects designed?

Control - Master The Supernatural In Remedy's Uncanny Shooter

Remedy gets weird again in Control, a mind-bending supernatural shooter where anything is possible.

The Post Apocalyptic FPS Gets Bigger, Wilder And More Open

Metro exodus flees the underground and finds a violent wasteland.

Making Games Inclusive For Gamers With Disabilities

Peripherals that make games inclusive for gamers with disabilities.

Thief May Not Be A Great Thief Game, But It's A Decent Burglary Sim

Indulge in housebreaking with Eidos’s flawed yet intriguing reboot.

The Future Of Immersive Sims

As the mainstream industry moves onto pastures new, what does the future hold for the shadowy genre known as the immersive simulation?

Datasette

If you’re going to adopt a common storage method across a range of computers, it makes sense to make the hardware as widely compatible as possible – and that’s just what Commodore did with the Datasette, known by the model numbers 1530 and C2N.

THE MAKING OF CAPTAIN BLOOD

AS HE TRAVELS THE HYDRA GALAXY IN HIS SHIP THE ARK, CAPTAIN BLOOD MUST TRACK DOWN AND DISINTEGRATE HIS FIVE REMAINING CLONES. TO DO SO, HE’LL HAVE TO COMMUNICATE WITH SEVERAL ALIEN SPECIES USING THE UPCOM, A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE DEVICE. UNIVERSALITY IS THE KEY CONCEPT BEHIND THIS WIDELY ACCLAIMED FRENCH CLASSIC

THE IMPACT OF 3rd STRIKE STREET FIGHTEr III

THEY SAY THIRD TIME'S A CHARM, ALTHOUGH STREET FIGHTER III DIDN'T IGNITE FIGHTING GAMES IN THE SAME WAY AS ITS PREDECESSOR UNTIL 3RD STRIKE. MEMBERS OF THE FIGHTING GAME COMMUNITY TELL US HOW THIS COMEBACK CEMENTED ITS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF 2D FIGHTERS

PSP Go

While Sony was no stranger to tinkering with its hardware, the PSP got a lot of attention over the years – the PSP Go was the fourth major iteration of the hardware, and the most radical redesign.

SUPER METROID AN ENDURING LEGACY

AS NINTENDO'S SCI-FI CLASSIC TURNS 30 WE REVISIT THE PLANET ZEBES AND SPEAK TO DEVELOPERS OF BOTH METROIDVANIAS AND ACTUAL METROID GAMES TO LEARN WHAT MAKES SAMUS ARAN'S 2D ADVENTURE SO SPECIAL

THE MAKING OF STAR TREK 25TH ANNIVERSARY

SPACE MAY BE THE FINAL FRONTIER BUT STAR TREK ADVENTURE GAMES WERE PRETTY MUCH THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY IN THE EARLY NINETIES. AT LEAST UNTIL STAR TREK: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CAME ALONG A GAME THAT DARED TO GO WHERE NO STAR TREK GAME HAD GONE BEFORE

ARCADE WRATH OF THE MUTANTS

A NEW TURTLES BEAT-'EM-UP IS FINALLY HEADING HOME AFTER YEARS OF DELIGHTING ARCADE-GOERS WE TALK TO EUGENE JARVIS AND MARC-ANDRÉ JUTRAS TO LEARN HOW THIS THROWBACK BRAWLER CAME TO BE, AND HOW IT'S BEEN EXPANDED FOR CONSOLES

Synduality: Echo Of Ada

Nonsensical name, enjoyable game

MultiVersus

Welcome to the slam

Freedom Planet 2

Not so much beating Sonic at his own game’ as evolving it

GENERATION OPEN

From ambitious RPGs to sweeping adventures, Jeremy Peel unpacks the history of the open world from PS1 to PS5

Dragon's Dogma 2

Our heart has been stolen

Shaping your worlds

Jess Kinghorn chats with world-building masters from Larian Studios, Techland, HoYoverse, Billy Goat Entertainment, and CD Projekt Red about what goes into crafting your favourite places on PlayStation

System Shock

Nightdive Studios' swanky, ground-up remake of 1994's genre-launching classic System Shock is finally heading to PlayStation which should make you very excited if you have any interest in crawling through vents or bonking cyborg mutants on the head with blunt objects.

Tracking Monster Hunter's future

Ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds next year, two story-focused spinoffs come to PlayStation

Asphalt: Legends Unite

Quietly purring the engine, Gameloft has been making rather good arcade racers since 2004.

Planet Zoo: Console Edition

Radio the keepers, its about to get wild