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“When Valve first floated the idea of selling Garry’s Mod on Steam, I said no because who would pay for that? Well, 18 years later, it turns out that 25,560,290 people would. Glad to have been wrong on this one.” Garry’s Mod creator Garry Newman ther

Tony Mott editorial director Alex Spencer deputy editor Jon Bailes games editor Miriam McDonald operations editor Warren Brown group art director Ryan Robbins designer Diego Nicolás Argüello, Alexander Chatziioannou, Christian Donlan, Jon Ingold, Luk

bit.ly/secret-level Ever since the announcement of Prime Video’s anthology series, we’ve been fascinated by the eclectic mix of games chosen for adaptation. The first batch of episodes Pac-Man alongside Unreal Tournament; Keanu pilots a mech in Armor

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Back when Edge launched, the racing game was one of the great system sellers, the performance of the simulation a direct indicator of the power of its host machine. Now, the genre almost feels like a hobbyist niche, barring a handful of names – Forza

Developer Messhof Publisher Annapurna Interactive Format PC, PS5, Xbox Series Origin US Release TBA Leaving behind delightfully silly sidescrolling sword battles for the unruly wilds of open-world 3D hasn’t been the easiest pivot for Nidhogg studio M

Developer / publisher Megagon Industries Format PC, Xbox Series Origin Germany Release 2025 One of the biggest influences on Megagon’s sequel to Lonely Mountains: Downhill is popular demand. Among all the outdoor pursuits the studio might have focuse

Developer / publisher Moonrise Studios  Format PC Origin US Release TBA As we prepare to board our starship, a quick word from the man we’ll be calling captain for the next 30 minutes. Into The MAW’s technical director, Sarek Lee, makes clear that th

Developer / publisher YCJY Games Format PC Origin Sweden Release 2025 Somewhat appropriately, YCYJ’s game about driving for days has had a long journey, beginning way back in 2016. “It sounded like a neat little idea,” explains Christopher Andreasson

Developer / publisher Team Artichoke Format PC Origin UK Release TBA As far as Mythmatch’s Greek legends are concerned, Artemis is not yet the goddess of the hunt; she’s still trying to prove herself to receive such divine responsibility. And her asc

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When we last spoke, you were still trying to imagine how UFO 50 might be received by players. How has the reality compared to expectations? Jon Perry Before the game came out, I still didn’t know if people were gonna get it, at least in these numbers

Where did the ideas for the anomalies come from? We almost always started with gameplay first. Richard [Weschler], our designer who worked on all of the anomalies, would look at all of the different ways you could interact with a car, and would spin

Short Trip PC While the game’s opening explains that it was handdrawn over five years, the title is accurate in that Short Trip takes minutes to play. As the feline driver of a single-car tram, your job is to stop at stations and pick up bipedal cats

Developer MachineGames Publisher Bethesda Softworks Format PC (tested), Xbox Series Release Out now Clearly, it’s time we rewatched Raiders Of The Lost Ark. It takes us way too long to realise that the opening sequence of Indiana Jones And The Great

For a long time, licensed games were regarded as things to be treated with caution, if not outright derision. It’s a reputation that can be tracked back a long way, to the games-of-the-films of the 1980s; a time when developers had little chance of c