Interview

Hearthstone's randomness is being curbed for consistency

Also: a fight to the death in a melee of bellowing orcs

How Bugsnax became a source of wholesome queer representation

"Everyone’s normal is different."

How The Impossible Bottle makes text adventuring accessible

Examine article

Apex Legends' future could see live game-changing events

"It's a ton of effort for one moment, and that's sort of the thing we've gotta get just right"

Meet the developer who designed Assassin's Creed Valhalla's fictional Isu language

You may need to develop a sixth sense if you fancy learning it

How hard is it to make your video game dog pettable?

Ask yourself not 'can?', but 'why?'

Fallout 76 is planning Fallout 4-style off map expansions

And other gossip from the devs

How do you play Sea Of Thieves with no sight? You steer the ship

I spoke to Sightless Kombat, a gamer without sight, about how far games still have to come before they're fully accessible

The Flare Path talks to Ryan Hewer

“Bad wears many hats in Rogue State: Revolution”

Amnesia: Rebirth's bright setting is designed to create a different type of fear, Frictional Games tell us

"What's scary isn't the monsters or location, it's that you're stranded"

The Flare Path endangers Rangers

Kicking arse, and doors, in Door Kickers 2

"An entire universe of art": Kieron Gillen on what comics and games can learn from each other

None more goth

Preview: Bugsnax isn't a horror game, but it's still unsettling

Feeling a bit queasy

Ostranauts is a hugely ambitious space game, but I think it's going to work

Space to grow

Crysis Remastered's lead dev talks ray tracing, and why it's OK if you can't play 'Can It Run Crysis?' mode

Really, it's fine

PlanetSide 2 is getting a story and side quests in the Shattered Warpgate update

Factional distillation

How Obsidian made tiny survival fun in Grounded

Good things, small packages

Fight Crab, the game about fighting crabs, was inspired by Dark Souls

V.v.V V.v.V V.v.V <--- crabs

A day in the life of Grounded's ants: Obsidian talk eggs, pheromones and their incoming queen

Pheromones? Build him a pyramid, idk

I Am Dead is a puzzle game about a ghost who can look inside fruit

He's going through a lot right now

Cyberknight is the cyberpunk Hollow Knight mod I didn't know I needed

Imagine digging up your garden to discover a technologically advanced bug society living right under your feet

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One will make Holmes detectier than ever

Fitting for a great detective

Warren Spector on Deus Ex, 20 years on

"I think luck played a big role!"

Hundreds of people are competing to finish Dark Souls without being hit

Prepare to cry

20 years on, Jet Set Radio is still influencing developers

Spreading the concept of love