And now for something completely different

For pioneers, it’s one thing to worry about

Micro transaction

Making sense of a landscape transformed by Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Musou life

As Dynasty Warriors reaches 25, Omega Force’s Akihiro Suzuki looks at the series’ enduring appeal

Commodore horizons

Why Retro Games Ltd believes it’s the right time to reintroduce the Amiga

Golf, the universe and everything

Indie developers are finding new uses for videogames’ favourite good walk spoiled

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 APRIL

Issue 368 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

Decisions, decisions…

The games that used to shout loudest about

BALDUR’S GATE 3

Barbarians are all the rage in Larian’s next step towards its RPG’s release

TRIANGLE STRATEGY

Good things come in threes in Square Enix’s tactical RPG

CITIZEN SLEEPER

Clock in for a shift on the edge of interstellar capitalism

VAMPIRE SURVIVORS

This exhilarating power fangtasy deserves its Early Access success

MASK OF THE ROSE

Why we’re already smitten by this Fallen London spin-off

AFTERLOVE EP

Moving on and jamming out in the follow-up to Coffee Talk

ROUNDUP

GRAN TURISMO 7 Developer/publisher SIE (Polyphony Digital) Format

THE EVIL WITHOUT

Ghostwire: Tokyo rediscovers a haunted city as Tango Gameworks moves beyond survival horror

ON DECK

Is Valve’s handheld PC ready to change the world?

AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE

Exploring the rise of the factory sim genre – and what it says about automation in our own lives

THE MAKING OF . . . OVERBOARD

From 80 Days to 100: how Inkle discovered a new way of making its games

WHITE PAPER GAMES

Ten years of ambition, mistakes, and learning from them

PLAY

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Fighting form

It may not come as a shock that

Florence

Why this award-winning mobile favourite is more than just a love story

Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Collection

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

Horizon Forbidden West

Developers/publisher SIE (Guerrilla Games) Format PS4, PS5 (tested)

Post Script

The trouble with Aloy

Dying Light 2: Stay Human

Developer/publisher Techland Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested),

Post Script

How has the rise of Polish studios changed the stories videogames tell?

Sifu

Developer/publisher Sloclap Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested)

Post Script

What’s my age again? How Sifu makes getting old feel new

Rainbow Six Extraction

Developer/publisher Ubisoft (Montreal) Format Luna, PC, PS4, PS5,

Pokémon Legends: Arceus

Developer Game Freak Publisher Nintendo, The Pokémon Company Format

OlliOlli World

Developer Roll7 Publisher Private Division Format PC

Strange Horticulture

Developer Bad Viking Publisher Iceberg Interactive Format PC

Wanderer

Developer/publisher Oddboy & M-Theory Format Index, PSVR (tested),

Not For Broadcast

Developer NotGames Publisher TinyBuild Format PC Release

Please, Touch The Artwork

Developer/publisher Thomas Waterzooi Format iOS, PC (tested) Release