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As we’ve discussed here in the past, one of the reasons zombies are so effective is because they’re so familiar – they are literally us, at least on the inside. The closer something is to home, the easier it is to relate, and therefore the more susce

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Jordan Weisman’s CV is something to behold. It begins in 1980, when he co-founded FASA Corporation, maker of the enduring tabletop games Shadowrun and BattleTech; in the early 1990s, the latter series birthed a chain of BattleTech Centers, pioneering

As the first trailer for Alan Wake II arrives, Remedy comms director Thomas Puha gets stuck into some good old-fashioned grandstanding Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors puts on a brave face after the collapse of a $2bn partnership Crop Circle Games’ Josh S

Psychotic Bathtub bit.ly/duckyissues Swiss developer Natasha Sebben won this year’s grant from Wings, a game fund that invests in projects from women and marginalised developers, with this fascinating narrative game centring on a woman having intrus

Like most people, every waking minute of the past week has involved playing and consuming Tears Of The Kingdom content, but while my timeline has been completely inundated with crazy contraptions and crucified Koroks, it’s Ascend that has surprised m

Game-makers often talk about design by subtraction, even as the industry tends to promote the idea that more is better. We’re more certain than ever that editing is the secret to a truly great game – though that needn’t always mean taking away. In so

Developer Die Gute Fabrik Publisher TBA Format PC, PS5, Switch Origin Denmark Release Late 2023 Before we enter the Saltsea archipelago in the new narrative adventure from Die Gute Fabrik, studio lead Hannah Nicklin shows us a slide featuring the te

Developer Summerfall Studios Publisher Humble Games Format PC Origin Australia Release August 3 Grace has been at a loose end since leaving college, a fact that hasn’t escaped the notice of best friend Freddie, a drummer and lyricist who invites he

Developer Copychaser Games Publisher Fellow Traveller Format PC Origin Canada Release 2024 At atime when publications such as Buzzfeed – to name but one highprofile example – are laying off staff, A ushering in a troubling “new frontier in media” wi

Format PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Developer Tunic Team Publisher Finji Origin Canada Release 2022 Sitting down with Andrew Shouldice, fresh off the back of a double BAFTA win, conversation immediately wanders away from the topic of h

For a long while Tobal 2, the experimental PlayStation fighting game directed by Tekken’s creator, Seiichi Ishii, held the record for the highest number of playable characters within its genre. The game’s Quest Mode presented an RPG-like adventure in

Q+A: Takayuki Nakayama, director Takayuki Nakayama (right) first played Street Fighter when he was nine years old on an arcade cabinet in the corner of a sweet shop close to his home in Gunma Prefecture, a hundred or so kilometres north of Tokyo. He

Roughly halfway through Diablo IV’s main questline, we hit upon an attack combo of magnificent sensory delight. Our elemental sorceress freezes the demons surrounding her, calls down a blizzard over their heads, and summons a phantasmal hydra to hurl

Something was wrong with the Citadel station’s onboard AI, Shodan, and Abe Ghiran knew it. When Shodan began to take control of the station, he joined a resistance of surviving crew members. He made a safe house above a radioactive trench down on med

Nightdive CEO and System Shock game director Stephen Kick (right) can finally get some sleep now. Behind closed doors, System Shock’s seven-year development not only raised the possibility that a final release would never actually arrive, but it also

When your entire world operates on the logic of a dice roll, there’s no such thing as a guaranteed outcome. But when Jade first joins our squad, with her X1-G Silent Ice sniper in tow, it comes awfully close. Miasma Chronicles’ tactical battles play

Trapped with an unkillable monster inside a First World War bunker, survival feels like a tough assignment, but still less so than the one Frictional Games has set itself here. An early loading screen message encourages us to experiment with its worl

This eco-conscious action adventure carries itself with the earnest solemnity of the last episode of a BBC nature programme, in which David Attenborough outlines the dire threat faced by Earth and its animal inhabitants. Dragged out to eight hours, h

With its latest quiet science-fiction mystery, Cyan Worlds asks us to appreciate the value of the manual labourer. The inventors and engineers of civilisation’s great machines take a back seat here, lest we forget that the people who keep them runnin

How do you approach depicting one of fantasy literature’s most iconic characters? It’s nearimpossible to separate our image of Gollum from his previous incarnations, whether as a scheming riddler in Tolkien’s books or as a sympathetic monster in the

H aving immediately struck gold four years ago with the physics-powered absurdist comedy of What The Golf?, Danish studio Triband confronted a challenge similar to the one Nintendo EPD faced with the WarioWare series. How do you recapture that crucia

L ove is surprisingly easy to come by, in the Helladjacent city of London. Mask Of The Rose begins by telling us that less than a year has passed since the capital sank beneath the Earth’s crust – and so we’re not expecting to stumble into our first