hands on

Knockout city is a dodgeball arena battler where you can really be the ball

Golden balls

Hands-on preview: Humankind is an open ended 4X that lets you build civilisations your way

Self-replicating caveman swarm.

Riot's first-person shooter Valorant aims to take Counter-Strike's crown

With a handful of Overwatch abilities

Hands on with GTFO, the best way to panic as a group since Killing Floor

Do panic

Dead Cells first paid DLC will let you get tossed by mushroom men

They're fun guys

Shadow Arena shakes up the battle royale genre with a cast of action heroes

For a "shadow" "desert" it was plenty light and lush, actually

I want to explore the worlds of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, but maybe not its story

But yes I am still enamoured with Cal's backpack

Legends Of Runeterra is a CCG shuffling up some of League Of Legends' familiar faces

A whole new way to fall in love with Teemo

ScourgeBringer is your next roguelite crush

Dead Cells meets Celeste

Spiritfarer is about death, but it's how it treats life that makes it unusual

A game about death but not about killing

Generation Zero rises above the doubts about its concept

Swedes, you are being hunted

A Year Of Rain is an accessible if ambitious upcoming co-op RTS

War makes monsters of us all

Close To The Sun is a horror game that's definitely not BioShock with Tesla

Edison was just an ass who electrocuted an elephant

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is about building empires in the ruins of an empire

A hex of one's own

Katana Zero makes time for more interesting twitch combat

Time's on our side

Metro Exodus's summer map is fun, but it's at its best when you go back underground

Mad to the maximum

Football Manager 2019 preview: a meaningful step forward for the series

Suspending disbelief for another year

HP Omen's ear-cooling Mindframe headset is actually sort of brilliant

One cool customer

Trüberbrook looks like a dream and handles like a nightmare

Model behaviour

The new HP Omen 15 could be the gaming laptop to end all laptops

Another good omen?

It's the little details that make HP's new Omen Sequencer keyboard and Reactor mouse so great

Devil in the details

Metro Exodus is a far cry from the tunnel shooter we knew

But is it Artyom

Artifact feels like Valve's solution to post-Hearthstone card games

From deckbuilding to ranked play

Artifact pairs the best ideas of Dota with the best parts of card games

Lane down your cards

Shadow of the Tomb Raider appears to be beautiful but a little vacuous

Croft in transit