Features (Page 14)

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No Case Should Remain Unsolved finds truth in distorted memories

Murder she thought.

May 13, 2024 Lottie Lynn

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Digital Foundry | Penny's Big Breakaway is a perfect blend of old-school platforming and brilliant innovation

Months on from release, we're still playing it - and here's why.

May 12, 2024 John Linneman

Four wildly different looks modelled next to each other in Fallout 76. One is a bathing suit, another is a Donnie Darko rabbit, the next is a leather chaps and waistcoat look, and the third is rubbery black bodysuit.

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How I made a fashion boutique in Fallout 76

Camp aesthetic.

May 12, 2024 Emma Kent

Hawke stands determined in front of a foggy fantasy vista in this screen from Dragon Age 2.

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Dragon Age 2 is one of gaming's best explorations of family life

Arrested development.

May 12, 2024 Aamir Mehar

A city street in Redfall, with the sun covered.

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One last stroll through Redfall, at the pace it was always meant to be played

Saying goodbye and thanks to one of recent gaming's most intriguing worlds.

May 11, 2024 Christian Donlan

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Digital Foundry | Unreal Engine 5.4: Epic's latest revision delivers big performance and feature wins

Yet frame-time stability, traversal stutter and shader precompilation still need improvement.

May 10, 2024 Alex Battaglia

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Why Xbox believes it must cut costs and close studios

Companies, particularly public companies like Microsoft, need to grow.

May 10, 2024 Chris Dring

A two-page spread from 2120 showing a hallway in an office building with various objects the reader can inspect including a light patch of wall.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: 2120 and books that contain mazes

Funty!

May 10, 2024 Christian Donlan

Uncharted heroine Chloe Frazer in close up, looking at a trio of golden-looking figurines on a ledge of some kind. She's sweaty and dirty, and concentrating.

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What we've been playing - legacies, flowers and lightsabers

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

May 10, 2024 Robert Purchese

A photograph of a rusted hatchet axe buried in a tree stump. In the background are piles of chopped wood. Someone has been busy.

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Chopping Zzzs | V Rising makes me wonder: is it time to rethink the survival crafting template?

Gear snore.

May 10, 2024 Robert Purchese

Image showing Xbox + Bethesda as the title, along with a montage of Dishonored, Wolfenstein, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Starfield, The Evil Within, and Prey, above a list of Bethesda studio brands.

Opinion

What is the point of Xbox?

The platform holder has repeated the same terrible mistakes for over a decade. The reason is simple: its priorities are back-to-front.

May 9, 2024 Chris Tapsell

God of War's Kratos having a little yell.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Gods

Oh Lordy.

May 8, 2024 Robert Purchese

A photo of an orchestral performance of Baldur's Gate 3 music, although it's slightly unusual in that you have two men and a woman at the front of the stage, singing. The woman is one of the vocalists from the Baldur's Gate 3 soundtrack. The smaller of the men, with long brown hair, is the composer Borislav Slavov, and the taller man, who's a little older with cropped hair, is the actor Andrew Wincott, who played the character Raphael in the game. They are all belting out Raphael's Final Act song, mouths open, dramatically gesturing. It's a powerful image!

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The Baldur's Gate 3 victory tour has been extraordinary, but feels like it's finally coming to an end

And what a Final Act it was.

May 8, 2024 Robert Purchese

A photograph of a white man with a pointed, Van Dyke white beard, and long white hair neatly swept back over his head, holding a magnifying glass up to some ancient document or other in the background.

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From creating D&D to making Baldur's Gate 3: meet the man who coined the term XP

"We were inventing a whole art form at the time."

May 5, 2024 Robert Purchese

Two climbers help each other up a rock face using ropes in Surmount.

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Vertical limit | Let's go climbing in some games

Surmount, Insurmountable, Unsurmountable...

May 4, 2024 Christian Donlan

Not A Hero official image showing a purple bunny creature sitting above a St George's cross flag and a banner reading VOTE BUNNYLORD, in front of a silhouetted crowed in pixel art style.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Not a Hero is another reminder of Roll7's brilliance

Cover star.

May 3, 2024 Christian Donlan

A photograph of three fingers, as seen from their inside/underneath side, with little smiling faces biro-d onto them. The two outside fingers also have little stick arms drawn onto them, as if the blissfully happy face in the middle is hugging them. Lovely!

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What we've been playing - our favourite matchmaking moments

Do you remember yours?

May 3, 2024 Robert Purchese

A render of the infamous G-man from the Half-Life universe, from the series' most recent outing, Half-Life Alyx. A slim white male with neat cropped hair, wearing a suit, stares ominously at the camera. He has an unhealthy pallor, as if he's smoked for far too long.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Minor characters

Let's dig in.

May 2, 2024 Robert Purchese

A bright and colourful piece of cartoon-style artwork for OlliOlli World, showing a young skateboarder with a wrist in plaster cast standing atop a huge wooden ramp.

Opinion

Goodbye Roll7, you deserved so much better

A cherished font of bright new ideas, closed for good.

May 2, 2024 Robert Purchese

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Digital Foundry | Keyboards big and small: three enthusiast options reviewed in spring 2024

Mistel AirOne, Meletrix BOOG75 and a custom Keychron Q1 with MX Purples.

May 2, 2024 Reece Bithrey

A close-up image of the Scrabble board, showing letter tiles laid out.

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Is Scrabble Together "anti-human", or is it a creative win for accessibility?

Onboarding.

May 2, 2024 Christian Donlan

steam deck running control with ray tracing

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Digital Foundry | Steam Deck has quietly become a reasonably capable ray tracing handheld

And the Asus ROG Ally is even better.

May 1, 2024 Oliver Mackenzie

Homeworld 3 official screenshot showing a spaceship to the left departing a giant spaceship dock to the right, against a solar orange background

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What to Play This May 2024

Our recurring series curating the month ahead.

May 1, 2024 Chris Tapsell

The cover of Hand to Mouth, a Paul Auster book

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A quick memory of Paul Auster: novelist, screenwriter, and... game designer?

The music of chance.

May 1, 2024 Christian Donlan

A diver is silhouetted by a whaleshark in Endless Ocean Luminous

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Endless Ocean Luminous isn't very good and I sort of love it

Fast fish and loose fish.

April 30, 2024 Christian Donlan