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Crate expectations

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Hitting the high notes

A BBC Prom, award recognition and booming vinyl sales – are we in a golden age of game music?

Rogues’ gallery

Hanging out at the MMO gallery game shaking up the art world one heist at a time

THUMPER

Fighting crime with style in To Hell With The Ugly

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’re weren’t doing everything else

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Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

Gag order

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EXOPRIMAL

Capcom’s online shooter delivers a different kind of dino crisis

DESTA: THE MEMORIES BETWEEN

A whole new ballgame

ROLLERDROME

Does Roll7’s brutal future sport deliver on the promise of its trailer?

THE WAGADU CHRONICLES

Pre-colonial influences and roleplaying thrive in this African fantasy

TACTICAL BREACH WIZARDS

Breaking rules – and windows – with spellcasting specialists

BIRTH

A point-and-click made with real heart (and several other organs)

DEATH OF THE REPROBATE

Finding the humour in Renaissance art

ROUNDUP

FLOCK Developer Hollow Ponds & Richard Hogg Publisher

HEAVY REIGN

On David Bowie, controversies, and the elevation of story: David Cage surveys Quantic Dream at 25

POWER

Why Ubisoft’s stellar sequel is breaking all the rules – with a little help from a Nintendo classic

COLLECTED WORKS

The one-time 16bit wonderkid reflects on teaching at Nintendo, going up against Direct3D, and being beaten to the punch by Mario 64

THE PERSISTENCE

How Firesprite tested the outer limits of PSVR with its Roguelike science-fiction shooter

NEW BLOOD INTERACTIVE

The publisher-turned-studio explains the secrets behind a “miraculous” working culture

BioShock Infinite

As its decaversary approaches, how should we remember Irrational’s shining city on a hill?

Into The Breach

progress report on the games we just can’t quit

Stray

Developer BlueTwelve Studio Publisher Annapurna Interactive Format PC,

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Translating the meanings of Stray’s fictional language

Immortality

Developer Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid Publisher Half Mermaid

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Has Half Mermaid finally harpooned the white whale of the ‘interactive movie’?

Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Developer Monolith Soft Publisher Nintendo Format Switch Release

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Extreme tutorialising with Monolith Soft (or: when approachability goes too far)

Live A Live

Developer Square Enix, Historia Publisher Nintendo Format Switch

We Are OFK

Developer/publisher Team OFK Format PC (tested), PS4, PS5,

As Dusk Falls

Developer Interior Night Publisher Xbox Game Studios Format

Escape Academy

Developer Coin Crew Games Publisher Iam8bit, Skybound Games

Witch Strandings

Developer Strange Scaffold Publisher Modern Wolf Format PC

Tombstar

Developer Andy Sum, Marcus Grambau Publisher No More

Last Call BBS

Developer/publisher Zachtronics Format PC Release Out now F

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