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The latest long reads, interviews and perspective from across PC and console gaming.
How Into the Breach and Slay the Spire put danger in plain sight
Two modern classics reveal just enough of the next turn to turn chaos into a decision.
NBA 2K27's shared City makes its split career stranger
A co-ed City gives NBA 2K27 a genuinely shared build space. Elsewhere, the career remains more fragmented.
BrokenLore: DON'T LIE turns Junko's flat into a map of isolation
Junko's flat is not a staging area for the horror. It is the game's central, unstable piece of evidence.
Black Ops Cold War's evidence board gave its campaign room to think
Its evidence board asked players to collect, compare and decide before the next mission started.
Mewgenics sends every battle back to the house
Its house gives every risky expedition a history that the next cat party has to live with.
Maneater 2 turns a theme park into a shark's food chain
The sequel's theme-park setting can make eating, exploring and evolving feel like one escalating act of vandalism.
Where the Seeds Fall makes every descent a landing puzzle
A flower thrown before a leap could give CygamesEdge's platformer a much sharper kind of vertigo.
Crazy Taxi's clock turns every shortcut into a wager
A ticking fare timer turns route knowledge into a series of escalating decisions.
Metal Slug's rare test build shows why its tank became a power-up
A rare location-test build reveals the design decision that made Metal Slug's tank sing.
Planet Zoo 2's Wildlife Reserves could make release feel real
Wildlife Reserves could make Planet Zoo 2's conservation theme tangible.