Let’s just make the computer handle it. No, not like that

Some technology trends emerge, make an awful lot

Pending resolution

The demise of Monolith Productions highlights a rising threat – both real and imagined – of gameplay patents

People versus the machine

This year’s GDC focused on human solutions, boutique development, and the state of AI

Donkey throng

Asses.masses is a seven-hour game played by an audience of hundreds

CAN YOU DIG IT?

An invitation to burrow deep and face your fears

Soundbytes

Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

ARCADE WATCH

Keeping an eye on the coin-op gaming scene

THIS MONTH ON EDGE

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

DISPATCHES JUNE

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Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

The Outer Limits

Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

European unions

By chance rather than design, Hype this month

FBC: FIREBREAK

Can Remedy go multiplayer without losing Control?

BLADES OF FIRE

MercurySteam forges ahead with a steely fantasy adventure

PATHOLOGIC 3

Terminus Est

STEEL HUNTERS

Replacing tanks and warships with the joy of mechs

NINJA GAIDEN: RAGEBOUND

Dotemu’s spinoff goes back, sideways and somewhere new

CONSUME ME

WarioWare meets diet culture in IGF’s Grand Prize winner

ROUNDUP

MARIO KART WORLD Developer/publisher Nintendo Format Switch

NEW DAWN

A trip to silent Hill reinvigorated Bloober Team the Polish horror studio is ready for its homecoming

Q + A : MACIEJ ANTOSIEWICZ HEAD OF CINEMATIC S AND MOTION CAPTURE

F rom the outside, Maciej Antosiewicz ’s domain

PERFECT PITCH

Sifu’s developer moves the goalposts with Rematch

RICHARD GARFIELD

The creator of Magic: The Gathering on card games, videogames and gameshows

THE MAKING OF . . .AMNESIA: THE BUNKER

How a gun, a generator and a pocket watch cranked up Frictional’s horror

SANTA RAGIONE

An Italian studio’s quest to insert unusual stories in unexpected places

Nothing new under the sun?

Are the rules of 3D action adventure games now set in stone? Play Assassin’s Creed Shadows , South Of Midnight or The First Berserker: Khazan , and you may come away with that impression. Shadows turns out to be a pleasant surprise overall, thriving as an open-world game in a way that wasn’t apparent in E 408’s hands-on test. If its moveset being split between two characters gives you different ways to approach its missions, however, the ways in which you fight or sneak largely follow well-trodden paths.

Half-Life: Alyx

Back to City 17 for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 by another name

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6

progress report on the games we just can’t quit

Assassin’s Creed: Shadows

A ssassin’s Creed: Shadows ’ dispiritingly long, non-interactive

Post Script

Diversity and exclusion?

Atomfall

The jay is a beautiful, rather spooky bird,

Post Script

The delicious apocalypse

Blue Prince

A s far and wide as the Roguelike

Post Script

The key ingredient for greatness: is it a mystery?

South Of Midnight

With a raging hurricane ripping a house from

The First Berserker: Khazan

W e spot the pressure pad on the

Promise Mascot Agency

W ho would have thought running a mascot

Commandos: Origins

The 1913 book Little Wars contains a wonderful

FragPunk

At the beginning of each round of FragPunk

Despelote

Your instinct might be to look up the

Play

“Sí, se puede” (literally ‘Yes, it can

Sonokuni

While the majority of the game is viewed

Koira

K oira is the story of two creatures