The Last Case of Benedict Fox

“SOMETIMES YOU JUST WANT TO BLOW UP A BUNCH OF ALIENS”

This month Fought epic editing battles with hundreds

BLOWING UP

CALL OF DUTY is still huge – and that could stop Microsoft buying Activision

600HZ ON THE GO

Here’s that 600Hz laptop screen you were after.

BUNDLE WOES

Microsoft messed up recently, accidentally selling a $200

CHAOS ON THE SERVER

The UK government had a bright idea: let’s

Highs & Lows

HIGHS Word up The first ever public voted

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

GERALT RELOADED

The big new update for THE WITCHER 3 adds to an RPG that’s aged beautifully

QA Q&A

THE UNSUNG HEROES OF DEVELOPMENT

SOUND GARDEN

GAMING’S LINEAGES EXPLORED

Starfield

RELEASE 2023 | DEV Bethesda Game Studios |

Aliens: Dark Descent

From the makers of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada comes

Hyenas

Creative Assembly’s first FPS since Alien: Isolation takes

Kerbal Space Program 2

The smiling mascots of this space flight simulation

Under the Waves

The bottom of the North Sea is the

The Great War: Western Front

RELEASE 2023 | DEV Petroglyph Games | PUB

Homeworld 3

With a wide variety of new ships and

Tempest Rising

Nuclear war has finally happened, but don’t worry;

Stormgate

T is year already looks like it’ll be

Company of Heroes 3

RELEASE February 23, 2023 | DEV Relic Entertainment

Minecraft Legends

Minecraft has lots of lore nowadays, and that’s

Men of War 2

With a wide variety of units, a detailed

Final Fantasy XVI

T he latest entry in the never-ending

Street Fighter 6

RELEASE June 2, 2023 | DEV Capcom |

Returnal

This slick roguelike from bullet hell masters Housemarque

Solium Infernum

The cult classic multiplayer turn-based strategy game –

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

AS THE PARTY LEAVES TO EXPLORE LANDS BEYOND

Roots of Pacha

This Stardew Valley-like farm sim stands out from

Hellboy Web of Wyrd

Lance Reddick voices the iconic monster-hunting half-demon for

Resident Evil 4

THE NEW VISUALS TAKE SOME GETTING USED TO

Alan Wake 2

Gaming’s wife guy returns. Aside from hints in

Remnant 2

Remnant: From the Ashes was a quietly brilliant

Silent Hill 2

Remaking one of the most lauded games of

Assassin’s Creed Mirage

RELEASE 2023 | DEV Ubisoft Bordeaux | PUB

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Set five years after the events of Fallen

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Nestled amid the upcoming Avatar sequels, this standalone

Skull and Bones

A nother throwback to an early period

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

RELEASE Early 2023 | DEV A44 Games |

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

A zero-to-hero story from the makers of Nioh,

Tortuga: A Pirate’s Tale

Thwart the great European powers in hexagonal, turn-based

Atlas Fallen

T he world of Atlas Fallen is

Diablo 4

RELEASE 2023 | DEV Blizzard | PUB Blizzard

Witchfire

With more than a vague whiff of Doom

Lies of P

A grim steampunk soulslike (very very) loosely based

Wild Hearts

WILD HEARTS CARRIES THE EA ORIGINALS TAG, BUT

Bramble: The Mountain King

Nordic folklore is the fuel for this adventure.

Planet of Lana

This puzzle-platformer has a lot going for it.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

RELEASE May 26, 2023 | DEV Rocksteady Studios

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

Described as a “musical adventure game”, the wonderful

Dredge

Take your upgradeable trawler out to sea, catch

Ravenlok

This screams ‘late 1990s 3D action game’, but

Shadows of Doubt

An open world crime-riddled city where you play

Hollow Knight: Silksong

RELEASE 2023 | DEV Team Cherry | PUB

Mask of the Rose

Failbetter Games return to the macabre world of

Tron Identity

A visual novel in which you play the

Teslagrad 2

A decade since the first game, this grogeous

The Invincible

RELEASE 2023 | DEV Starward Industries | PUB

The Expanse: A Telltale Series

Telltale games return in some form with The

Star Trek Resurgence

An interactive narrative game set in the Star

Terra Nil

T he citybuilder, as first established by

Nightingale

RELEASE TBC | DEV Inflexion Games | PUB

Lightyear Frontier

Aimed firmly at the Venn diagram intersection where

Ark 2

After birthing multiple spin-offs, the breakout dinosaur survival

STALKER 2

RELEASE December 2023 | DEV GSC Game World

Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

In the hearteningly specific premise for this Middle-earth

Park Beyond

The studio behind Tropico 6 dares to try

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

RELEASE Summer 2023 | DEV Team Reptile |

Mars First Logistics

Design and build your own Mars rovers for

Hades II

Indie superstar studio Supergiant has announced its first

Hyper Light Breaker

A new game set in the post

Redfall

RELEASE 2023 | DEV Arkane Austin | PUB

Skate Story

Fighting through hell is so last year, 2023

Stray Blade

A Souls-like fantasy RPG distinguishing itself with a

HORDE MODE

Fight hundreds of alien monsters at once in the bigger, meaner SPACE MARINE 2

REVIEW

HOW WE REVIEW We review each game on

SHOTS IN THE DARK

Bash heretics to save a wonderfully horrible world in WARHAMMER 40K: DARKTIDE

RADIOTHERAPY

SIGNALIS is one of the best psychological sci-fi chillers in years

IRON MAN MODE

MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS successfully morphs XCOM into social simulation, somehow

ALL GORE

Walk down gaming’s moodiest corridors in THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL

DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES

EVIL WEST pits cowboys against vampires in a beefy brawler

SINK OR SWIM

Beginning at the end in soggy citybuilder FLOODLAND

DEAD ON ARRIVAL

Souls-like Metroidvania meets monotony in GHOST SONG

GARBAGE DAY

Bin there, dumped that in SUNSET SHIFT

EARTH TO EARTH

MAPFRIEND makes a game out of Google Earth

FACE OFF

Beating a demon at his own game in FACE DOWN

PANDORA’S GLOCKS

Grabbing more loot than I’ll use in a lifetime in BORDERLANDS

GLITCHY TASTY

Brilliant backtracking in the depths of AXIOM VERGE

GLASS CEILING

Relearning to run in MIRROR’S EDGE

AMD VS INTEL

There’s only one way to decide between these gaming CPUs: fight!

YOU’VE BEEN FRAMED

GPUs are now £1,000+ investments. How did we get here?

AULD LAN SYNE

New year’s resolutions for the hardware-obsessed

BUYER’S GUIDE

Build the best PC for your budget

BUDGET BUILD

Enjoy 1080p gaming without breaking the bank

MID-RANGE BUILD

Our recommended build for playing the latest games

ADVANCED BUILD

Go above and beyond with a PC powerful enough to end worlds

“I did what any other human would do – I razed the thing to the ground”

Trying my damn best to unwind in DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY

“It loves to throw supervillains at you”

Making enemies in MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS

​“See, you don’t know for sure that people are, in fact, dead”

Gods, demons, and jazz make PARADISE KILLER’S world a perfect mystery playground

“There’s about 200 incident reports in a random order to pore over”

The magic of technology sees the hunter become the hunted in SCRUTINISED

CYBERPUNK 2077

Cyberpunk was good, but its biggest issues remain.

MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDITION

Make your next playthrough the best one ever

WARHAMMER 40K: DARKTIDE

Save Tertium from the forces of Chaos

CITIES: SKYLINES

TRYING TO BUILD EVERYTHING IN

OVERWATCH’S ZARYA

WHAT MAKES GAMES SPECIAL

THE WITCHER

OLD GAMES, NEW PERSPECTIVES

MUST PLAY

A PERSONAL LIST OF THE BEST GAMES YOU CAN PLAY RIGHT NOW

BATTLE READY

Thunder hammers? Boltguns? Old hat! WARHAMMER 40,000 needs some new weapons