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How well do you know Call of Duty Warzone? The free-to-play battle royale extension to Call of Duty Modern Warfare (opens in new tab) has been available for a week now and we’ve been playing it non-stop. Whether you’ve picked up countless Warzone victories or failed to break the top …

Read more (Image credit: Bungie) The secret sauce behind Destiny 2’s brilliance? Menus, maps and inventory management (opens in new tab) Anyone who’s ever been on a date or interviewed for a job doesn’t need reminding about the importance of first impressions, but they hold even more purchase over human …

Speaking at the Interactive Futures 2020 conference in Leamington Spa, Ubisoft game designer Lara Coulson opens with a question: “So, why did we want to add clans to The Division?” As with many online games, the social aspect of playing with others is one of its biggest draws, and giving …

Support long-form games journalism (Image credit: Future) This feature first appeared in Edge Magazine. If you want more great long-form games journalism like this every month, delivered straight to your doorstop or your inbox, why not subscribe to Edge here. (opens in new tab) Three months in to 2020 and news …

Read more great retro features in Retro Gamer magazine (Image credit: Future) The Making of Theme Hospital feature originally ran in issue #130 of Retro Gamer magazine, 2014. If you want to read more excellent long-form features and developer interviews about history’s best games every month, and you can save …

When you think of Silent Hill, what springs to mind? Creepy jangly music, foggy streets and those weirdly sexualised flesh-faced nurses? Thought so. Now forget it all. Leave it behind because if a new Silent Hill is ever to succeed it needs to bring something new to the table in …

To compete with the highly successful Xbox One Elite 2 Controller, earlier this year Sony hastily revealed and then released a DualShock 4 back button attachment to give PS4 players a quick, cheap way to graft mappable buttons to their controllers. From the moment the attachment was announced in December, …

Google Stadia (opens in new tab) has had a troubled inception. The cloud-based game streaming service, which launched in November 2019, arrived short on the features it promised to those who’d pre-ordered the Founder’s Edition, including omitting the Buddy Pass – three month’s premium access to the service to gift …

It was supposed to be a normal Tuesday for the Destiny 2 (opens in new tab) community. A routine weekly reset. The Season of Dawn roadmap didn’t indicate anything was happening. As far as anyone was concerned, this was just like any other in-game week for the Guardian faithful.  But …

The Sims is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and it’s been nearly that long since I last played the strategic life-simulation game. I stopped playing the original Sims circa 2003, so naturally, I decided it would be a good idea to re-learn how to build within the draconian laws …