GDC 2023

The Banished Vault's giant space cathedral will be lifting off on July 25th

A new strategy management game from the designer of Sun Dogs

Worldless is a gorgeous Metroid-like platformer with a turn-based twist

Try its demo for yourself now

Mutazione devs next game looks like interactive Star Trek at its finest

Saltsea Chronicles combines fantasy soap opera with the best branching save system I've ever seen

How Tunic was born from a lifelong obsession with Zelda, secrets and hidden object games

Creator Andrew Shouldice tells us about designing "the excitement of not knowing"

Move over Returnal, Luna Abyss is your next favourite bullet hell shooter

Keep several eyes out for this one

Why XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns will never be forever games like Diablo and Destiny

"We sacrifice the meta sometimes to make sure that the player's first experience of the game really feels awesome."

Marvel's Midnight Suns was originally going to have loads more story chats in it

Creative director Jake Solomon tells us they cut at least 30 scenes "because we realised this is just simply too much"

Marvel's Midnight Suns creative director "totally gets" the backlash around its card battles

But the rumours around Firaxis delaying the game to drop it were "wishful thinking"

XCOM's Jake Solomon is swapping turn-based tactics for life sims, and he's not coming back

As the XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director leaves Firaxis, he chats to us about what's next, and how life sims have been creeping into his work ever since the birth of Minecraft

The Thaumaturge is a detective RPG that's part Divinity: Original Sin, part evil Pokémon

The next game from the Witcher Remake and Seven: The Days Long Gone devs

A Highland Song gives Death Stranding a musical run for its money

The best bits of Inkle's Pendragon and 80 Days combine to create a rhythmic hiking platformer like no other

The Invincible is way more exciting now I know it "isn't a 1:1 adaptation" of Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi thriller

As all good adaptations should be

Toasters, pulleys, wheels and giant hats: the coolest Alt Ctrl games at GDC 2023

Nearly all of them were made by student dev teams, too

The Lamplighters League pilfers from the finest strategy games around, and it's utterly thrilling

Relight my fire

Life By You has grand designs on The Sims' life sim throne

We chat to Paradox Tectonic's Rod Humble about going open world, getting rid of loading screens and its extensive modding tools

The games of 2022, according to this year's GDC and IGF Award winners

Bestest Bests all round

Betrayal At Club Low wins IGF Grand Prize

Cosmo D's surreal pizza adventure also picked up the Nuovo Award