STEAM RISING

“A COLOURFUL TRIP BACK TO THE PAST IN OUR TMNT FEATURE”

ROBIN VALENTINE Twitter @robinlvalentine This month Told anyone

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

FROM THE FIELDS

Fans are still making sequels to FromSoftware’s ’90s RPG series KING’S FIELD

YOUNGER SCROLLS

How an Oblivion questline birthed a new stealth experience in ABERMORE

SPLINTER FACTION

UBISOFT TORONTO is still fighting to build a reputation it can be proud of

Incoming

THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

THE WANDERING VILLAGE

This city never stops – because it’s on top of huge monster

SONGS OF CONQUEST

Discovering strategies both magical and mighty

BATORA: LOST HAVEN

Balance mind and body in a neon fantasy world

LOST IN PLAY

Time to lose your way, but find yourself

WARHAMMER 40K: SHOOTAS, BLOOD & TEEF

War’s what orks are gud for

INSTRUMENTS OF DESTRUCTION

Rip and tear, but with buildings instead of demons

TURTLE POWER

TMNT: SHREDDER’S REVENGE revisits the glory days of Ninja Turtles brawlers

DUE SOUTH

This stunning point-and-click parable isn’t the next Kentucky Route Zero – it’s the first NORCO

THE MAKING OF SPLINTER CELL : CHAOS THEORY

As the series’ return sneaks up on us, we debrief Sam Fisher’s finest outing with its creators

REVIEW

HOW WE REVIEW We review each game on

This month’s maidenless reviewers…

TYLER COLP Specialist in Hard graft Currently playing

A FAMILIAR RING

ELDEN RING is a Souls-like adventure on a massive scale

ALL RIGHT

For an underground adventure, LITTLE ORPHEUS is painfully surface-level

NOT NIER ENOUGH

There’s precious little Platinum magic in BABYLON’S FALL

LO WANG-ING FRUIT

Boomer shooter SHADOW WARRIOR 3 revives a hero we never needed

SLAY QUEEN

With DESTINY 2: THE WITCH QUEEN, Bungie delivers its best expansion to date

DAS BOOT

Traversing a drowned world in atmospheric puzzler FAR: CHANGING TIDES

GUESTLISTED

NOT TONIGHT 2 brings the Papers, Please formula to a shattered American landscape

BORNE AGAIN

BLOODBORNE PSX demakes a PlayStation 4 classic, with great results

SPICE WORLD

UNDUNE II remakes a classic in PICO-8 form

KARAWAN OF LOVE

At world’s end in turn-based strategy KARAWAN

HUN BELIEVABLE

TOTAL WAR: ATTILA –a brutal soap opera of neighbourly disputes and illegitimate sons

COAST EFFECTIVE

Enjoying when things go south in BAD NORTH

JOYSTICKS

Don’t get into a flap deciding on a joystick to round off your flight sim experience

STEAM DECK

The Steam Deck can’t yet play every game on Steam, but it’s a great handheld gaming system nonetheless.

A WHOLE NEWELL WORLD

Valve president GABE NEWELL has big plans for the Steam Deck

GROWING PANES

Does WINDOWS 11 offer any reason for gamers to upgrade yet?

THE EVIL WITHIN

The first upgrade: PC gaming’s most perilous rite of passage

BUYER’S GUIDE

Build the best PC for your budget

“I was pointing an LMG at enemies who could be killed by a sneeze”

Cheap thrills and sniper duels in BATTLEFIELD 2042’s player-created modes

“You never know what to expect”

Embracing the odd in ELDEN RING

“Clearly this was the kind of gem I’d been missing out on”

Remembering that singleplayer games exist with THE FORGOTTEN CITY

“Finding twelve cats in under two minutes can be put on a CV, right?”

Finding oddities around the French capital in FIRST TIME IN PARIS

STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC

The MMO’s new expansion has gone down like the Holiday Special.

HALF-LIFE 2: OVERCHARGED

Supercharge Gordon Freeman

DEFEAT DAEMONS IN TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

Face the forces of Chaos and emerge victorious.

JUST CAUSE 4

Can’t everybody just get along?

QUADRILATERAL COWBOY

Making little drones to do my bidding is super satisfying

THE SIMS 3

Back to the best building tools of the series.

MUST PLAY

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

INTRODUCING… THE FIFTH TURTLE

Turtles in Time? More like Turtles stuck in