The forecast: heavy rain, with risk of exo-rig conflict

Why don’t we see more weather in games?

Power and responsibility

Is the industry heading for a crash? And, if so, who’s going to do something about it?

Taken to Task

How opportunity for improvisation is helping TV’s most beloved gameshow work in VR

Recalibrating PlayStation 5

How Sony’s PlayStation Access makes its flagship console friendlier to more players

FEAT OF CLAY

Plasticine stop-motion horror adventure Visceratum promises to disturb and delight in equal measure

Soundbytes

Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

THIS MONTH ON EDGE

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

Dialogue

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Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later 

The Outer Limits

Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

Narrative Engine

Write it like you stole it 

Giving the game away

Often, a player’s relationship with a game begins

ONCE HUMAN

Surviving the new weird

LOST RECORDS: BLOOM & RAGE

Life is strange, but the past is stranger

NIRVANA NOIR

All in all is all we are 

THRASHER

This serpentine successor is a slipper y beast indeed

CHASING THE UNSEEN

Standing on the shoulders (and various other parts) of giants

DARKWEB STREAMER

Creating a fame monster

TOTAL FILM

ON SALE NOW

APOCALY PSE NOW

How Sharkmob plans to shake up the extraction shooter with the help of Mother Nature

FLYING SOLO

Going it alone in modern game development

IKUMI NAK A MUR A

From artist to studio head, how Unseen’s CEO is breaking boundaries and borders

HALO WARS

How Ensemble’s final game went from skunkworks experiment to part of Microsoft’s biggest series

FOOL’S THEORY

How a studio in Poland’s secluded south caught the eyes of Larian, 11 Bit and CD Projekt Red

PLAY

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Rock Band 4

Harmonix’s swan song for the plastic-instrument era lives on

THE LONG GAME

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

The Finals

Developer/publisher Embark Studios Format PC (tested), PS5 (tested),

Post Script

The Finals reawakens an appetite for destruction

Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown

Developer/publisher Ubisoft (Montpellier) Format PC, PS4, PS5

Asgard’s Wrath 2

Developer/publisher Oculus Studios (Sanzaru Games) Format Quest 2, 3

Another Code: Recollection

Developer Cing, Arc System Works Publisher Nintendo

Go Mecha Ball

Developer Whale Peak Games Publisher Super Rare Originals

Home Safety Hotline

Developer/publisher Night Signal Entertainment Format PC Release Out

Raindrop Sprinters

Developer Room 909 Publisher Mediascape Co Format PC