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This year could be a watershed moment for the videogame industry, as issues that have been rumbling along for far too long, including concerns over data privacy, online safety and loot boxes, look set to come to a head. “We’re going to start seeing a

Game Throwback: Jai-Alai Heroes  Manufacturer Astro Crow As Jai-Alai Heroes, Astro Crow’s multiplayer sports game was earning acclaim on the indie arcade circuit as far back as 2018, when it landed the ‘Best Of Show – Indie Game Developer’ award at F

Tony Mott aspiring lord of the Umbral Chris Schilling deputy editor Alex Spencer features editor Miriam McDonald operations editor Andrew P Hind art editor Jon Bailes, Adrian Hon, Emma Kent, Rick Lane, Lewis Packwood, Emmanuel Pajon, Jeremy Peel, Ste

Stick To The Plan bit.ly/stickdog We may never fully understand what attracts tiny dogs to giant sticks, nor their tendency to try to squeeze between objects while carrying them in their mouths. This simple Sokobanstyle puzzle game attempts to captu

One of the most striking things about Light & Magic, Lawrence Kasdan’s captivating documentary series about the early days of the special effects house behind Star Wars, is how differently artists were forced to work back then. It was one thing to ha

We’re enjoying a cheerful wander around Ija Nöj in Tchia when we’re belatedly struck by a fact revealed in its intro video. This utterly convincing sun-kissed setting was built by just nine people. How, we wonder, did they manage it? And then we real

You might expect a big new game studio emerging in 2023 to be caught up in the buzzwords of the moment, especially since the very idea of forming a heavyweight development company requires investors to come on board, and investors have the unfortunat

Developer/publisher Mimimi Games Format PC, PS5, Xbox Series Origin Germany Release TBA 2023 After making its breakthrough with a game about ninjas (2016’s Shadow Tactics) and a followup about cowboys (2020’s Desperados III), for this spiritual succe

Developer Doinksoft Publisher Devolver Digital Format PC, Switch Origin US Release 2023 At nine letters, that title may be the most economical pitch in the history of videogames. Think for a moment how an umbrella that is also a gun might function, a

Developer/ publisher Sonka Format PC Origin Poland Release TBA We all have little tasks we’ve been putting off for a while: that picture that needs straightening, the crockery that hasn’t been put away, the stack of paperwork that now teeters precari

Developer/ publisher Triple Topping Format PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series Origin Denmark Release TBA Forget the tired trope of the strong female protagonist; just what constitutes a feminist game? It’s a question we posit to self-proclaimed feminist in

Format PC, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Developer Jump Over The Age Publisher Fellow Traveller Origin UK Release 2022 There’s a simple reason why Citizen Sleeper relies so heavily on dice rolls: Gareth Damian Martin discovered tabletop RPGs while de

Nintendo Switch Sports Switch Holiday season is always Nintendo season, though the recently introduced golf gets short shrift, online multiplayer making a leisurely pastime feel too hurried, while we’re gently encouraged to move on to more immediate

Developer Intelligent Systems Publisher Nintendo Format Switch Release Out now Outside the ramifications it has for both Fire Emblem’s mechanics and its narrative, Engage’s titular hook says everything about the contemporary fixation with the notion

As aretainer to Elusian princess Ivy, Kagetsu was once an opponent. Now, however, the samuraigarbed swordmaster has become one of our most trusted and capable allies. And so we think little of it when we send him on a solo mission down a separate pat