What’s the Big Idea?

Looking across the videogame landscape in 2021, it

THE LONG GAME

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

Reality check

As Sony preps its next-gen PSVR technology, what does the future of VR gaming look like?

Stun meter

Unpicking the implications of Sony’s acquisition of Evolution, the world’s biggest fighting-game tournament

Object of the exercise

Inside the six-month creation of Labo Fit Adventure Kart Kit

Little shop of horror

Bruised but not beaten, Red Candle Games has found a home for Devotion: its own web store

PUPPET POWERED

An old-fashioned approach to modelling yields unique results

Soundbytes

Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

THIS MONTH ON EDGE

When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this

DISPATCHES JUNE

Issue 357 Dialogue Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Unreliable Narrator

Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales

On location

Whether it’s an authentic recreation of a real

LAST STOP

All change for the Virginia dev’s surprising science-fiction anthology

THE MAGNIFICENT TRUFFLEPIGS

Detectorists meets Firewatch? We dig it

H E L L L E T L O O S E

Learn by dying like a dog for no good reason

S E V E R E D S T E E L

This indie FPS is a cut above

N O B O D Y S A V E S T H E W O R L D

DrinkBox’s shapeshifting action-RPG is on form

GLITCHPUNK

Cars and commentary collide in GTA2’s spiritual successor

SHE DREAMS ELSEWHERE

Fighting inner demons (and dogs) in this surreal RPG

ROUNDUP

LIFE IS STRANGE: TRUE COLORS Developer Deck Nine

CLOSING THE LOOP

Lemnis Gate looks to the past, present and future of the firstperson shooter

HARD CORE

How MiSTer emulation is redefining the art of resurrecting gaming’s past

CROWD COVER

How social stealth found its people in the world of indie multiplayer

THE MAKING OF ... STREETS OF RAGE 4

How a team of French Japanophiles cashed in their credits to revive a classic Sega series

TEAM NINJA

The Ninja Gaiden and Nioh developer enters an exciting new era

Slay The Spire

What we talk about when we talk about running

Pure imagination

We often hear complaints that games don’t reflect

Outriders

Developer People Can Fly Publisher Square Enix Format

Post Script

You must remember this: a quest is not just a quest

Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139…

Oppressively bleak. Repetitive. Player-unfriendly. Repetitive. Those criticisms remain

Post Script

When is a remake not a remake?

It Takes Two

Developer Hazelight Publisher Electronic Arts Format PC (tested),

Trials Of Fire

Developer/publisher Whatboy Games Format PC Release Out now

Paradise Lost

What does this Polish firstperson narrative game have

Evil Genius 2: World Domination

Playing Evil Genius 2, you begin to appreciate

Balan Wonderworld

At times you might wonder just what kind

Before Your Eyes

D o we really get to watch a

Gnosia

F orget charades – anyone who’s anyone knows

Say No! More

The deliberately rudimentary animation and physics adds to