Fidelity or Performance? Or how about just Fun?

There’s a bit in Astro Bot where you

Pro evolution

Sony’s latest console upgrade provides a smattering of embellishments – for a price

Double Dragon

Can Like A Dragon: Yakuza translate into another videogame-to-TV hit for Amazon?

Fantasy star

In the booth with Ralph Ineson, one of the biggest talents working in modern games

BEAR ARMS

An anthropomorphic historical fantasy made – but not actually played – in VR

Soundbytes

Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

THIS MONTH ON EDGE

Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

DISPATCHES DECEMBER

Dialogue

STEVEN POOLE

Trigger Happy

The Outer Limits

ALEX SPENCER

Narrative Engine

JON INGOLD

Show and tell

Our demo session with Supermassive Games’ Little Nightmares

CRIMSON DESERT

Bloody battlegrounds set the stage for a mythic quest

LITTLE NIGHTMARES III

The smallest of horrors gets the Supermassive treatment

BEASTIEBALL

The Chicory team return for a whole new ballgame

AVOWED

Is Obsidian’s next RPG a little too by the numbers?

CAIRN

The mountain is the boss in this exacting ascent

TITAN QUEST II

The legend returns, in new hands

ROUNDUP

MARVEL RIVALS Developer/publisher NetEase Games Format PC,

ESCAPC VELOCITY

How the creators of Journey To The Savage Planet emerged from Stadia’s rubble to start again

LENS FLAIR

How developers are reinventing their worlds through the eye of a camera

JUSANT

How the Life Is Strange team traded time travel for mountain climbing

Q- GAMES

How Dylan Cuthbert went from Nintendo and PlayStation to the Kyoto indie scene

Simple pleasures

Astro Bot’s aims are straightforward, even if

Grow Home

How a twisting fairytale beanstalk freed Ubisoft from its least playful impulses

Broken Sword – Shadow Of The Templars: Reforged

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

Astro Bot

To rework the classic football quote, Astro Bot

Post Script

The little robot that could

The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom

Developer/publisher Nintendo Format Switch Release Out now

Post Script

Breath, Tears and Echoes: how Nintendo’s landmark series has forged a brand-new identity

Frostpunk 2

Developer/publisher 11 Bit Studios Format PC (tested),

Post Script

Alt-history or something closer?

Star Wars: Outlaws

Developer/publisher Ubisoft (Massive Entertainment) Format PC, PS5

Post Script

Nixing the project

The Plucky Squire

Developer All Possible Futures P ublisher Devolver

DeathSprint 66

Developer Sumo Digital Publisher Secret Mode Format

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Developer Saber Interactive Publisher Focus Entertainment Format

Shadows Of Doubt

Developer ColePowered Games Publisher Fireshine Games Format

Wild Bastards

An alien named Roswell beams down to the

Bakeru

Better late than never for Bakeru, which was

Starstruck: Hands Of Time

An astronaut – that’s you – travels a

Caravan SandWitch

As well as being your mode of transport,

Selfloss

Alongside the sea life, various humanoid beings populate