Contents


6 IRL It’s awards season, baby!


12 Critical Path I can’t believe it’s not E3


14 Industry Voices Dan Ahern on social mobility


28 Chris Charla


Big fish, little fish, indies on Xbox


24 Fireshine


On its first year, and what’s next


30 Ins and Outs This month’s hires and moves


34 Debugging D&I


Liz Prince speaks to Safe In Our World


41 Dry Cactus On Poly Bridge 3


48 When We Made … Wildfrost


54 Final Boss Playmint’s David Amor


41 54 24


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Richie Shoemaker richie.shoemaker@biz-media.co.uk


All good gaming years come on threes


t's probably a bit too soon to mark 2023 down as a classic year for games, but I'm going to do it anyway. You only have to turn the page to read about what titles I'm currently enjoying (all of which were among those I've been most looking forward to and none have disappointed), but perhaps it was inevitable that there would be a  at the beginning). Then again, it's a year with a '3' it it, so perhaps I shouldn't be too surprised. 1993 brought us Doom and X-COM, 2003 bequethed KotOR and CoD, and 2013 was the year of GTAV and The Last of Us. 2023 has so far brought us a cracking new Legend of Zelda. There's room for one more!


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