GDC 2023

A new strategy management game from the designer of Sun Dogs

Try its demo for yourself now

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

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

Keep several eyes out for this one

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

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

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

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

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

As all good adaptations should be

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

Relight my fire

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

Bestest Bests all round

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