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October 2022

  • ‘I didn’t feel I was celebrating anything as I attempted to kick a football through the spokes of a giant wooden wheel’ … Fifa World.

    Lost in Roblox’s Fifa World – everything wrong with the metaverse in one place

    This football-themed game is a ludicrous fantasy: a dystopian hyper-capitalist holiday park that illustrates how the virtual universe will really work

August 2022

  • Identity crisis … promotional art for The Alters by 11 Bit Studios.

    Summer games previews

    A midlife crisis in space: the Alters is a sci-fi comedy starring hapless clones

    Featuring an astronaut trapped on a space station with only his alternate selves for company, 11 Bit Studios’ next game walks the line between comedy and commentary

July 2022

  • Purr-fect … cat game Stray.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter

    Pushing Buttons: animal games that let the fur fly

  • A perfect thing in a broken world … Stray.

    Stray review – press paws for adorable life as a post-apocalypse pussycat

April 2022

  • A grisly murder... Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong

    In this game, vampires aren’t feral beasts – they’re the global elite

    Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong casts the figurative bloodsuckers of our world as literal night-stalking vampires, invisibly controlling the world

November 2020

  • ‘When you play a game you accomplish something that’s real’ ... Todd Howard.

    'To say, I saved the world – that's the magic of games': Bethesda's Todd Howard

    With a background including Elder Scrolls, Fallout and forthcoming epic Starfield, how does the acclaimed developer see games in the next five years?

May 2020

  • I’m only here for the dancing bananas ... Fortnite Party Royale.

    Lockdown culture

    Fortnite Party Royale is the most fun you can have in the metaverse

    The in-game party where you can listen to DJs, do cartoonish challenges or hurl burgers while dressed as a banana is a mass-participation godsend

March 2020

  • Hideo Kojima’s elegiac adventure has 11 Bafta nominations … Death Stranding.

    Death Stranding and Control dominate Bafta games awards nominations

    The futuristic adventures are both in 11 categories this year, with Disco Elysium and Untitled Goose Game also featuring highly

January 2020

  • Games to look forward to in 2020, from left: Final Fantasy VIII to Overwatch 2 and Cyberpunk 2077

    2020 culture preview

    Vampires, gangsters and Keanu Reeves: our games picks for 2020

    A remake of a beloved classic, long-awaited sequels, alien shooting and Minecraft adventure lead our preview of this year’s most anticipated releases

April 2018

  • A line of Pokémon Pikachu characters parade in Yokohama, Japan.

    Zelda? Pokémon? Spyro? Players tweet their defining games

    Under the trending Twitter hashtag #GameStruck4, video game fans have spent the day listing the four titles that defined their love of gaming. Some are predictable, others not so much

December 2017

  • Landmark title … The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

    Best culture 2017

    The top 10 video games of 2017

    Mario ran amok in New Donk City, a cat dropped out of college, and Angel Carter haunted What Remains of Edith Finch. But it was the mighty Zelda who took video gaming – and cooking – to a new dimension

September 2017

  • Games — Autumn culture preview

    Autumn arts preview 2017

    Gods, guns and gross-out: the best video games of autumn 2017

    The South Park goons turn into caped crusaders, the Star Wars Death Star is avenged, Cuphead catapults players back to the ravishing 1930s, and Mario unleashes his super magic cap

December 2016

  • Watch Dogs 2.

    Observer critics' review of 2016

    Simon Parkin: best video games of 2016

    From the lush medieval world of The Witcher 3 to the touching narrative of The Last Guardian, let’s give thanks for rich escapes from a tough year

June 2016

  • Faith, the parkour-loving heroine of Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst.

    Games reviews roundup: Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst; Sherlock Holmes: Devil’s Daughter; Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator

    The dystopian free-running epic gets a fluid reboot, everyone’s favourite detective gets a new case and the weirdest beat-’em-up around gets physical

February 2016

  • bounden game

    50 best apps

    Fifty apps that are reinventing mobile gaming

    Solve a murder mystery, grow a tree, spend the day as a sailor, be a spider… mobile developers are rethinking everything

January 2016

  • Firewatch

    Gaming’s next level? Tales of the unexpected

    The future looks dim for film-style storytelling as more games allow you to plot your own adventures

November 2015

  • Nina Freeman, game designer.

    Meet Nina Freeman, the punk poet of gaming

    Video games don’t have to be about death and warfare. Emotional, intimate and sexually frank, Nina Freeman’s relationship-led adventures are revolutionising the genre

October 2015

  • still from Soma

    Games reviews roundup: Soma; Transformers Devastation; Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer

    Unsettling undersea machinations inspired by Philip K Dick, enjoyably unadorned robot combat and… interior design

September 2015

  • Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

    Games reviews roundup: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture; Resident Evil: Revelations 2; Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians

    A new walking simulator lacks gameplay, while Resident Evil’s new Vita incarnation skimps on the graphics

January 2014

  • Part of a Cicada puzzle.

    Cicada 3301: I tried the hardest puzzle on the internet and failed spectacularly

    No one knows who sets it or what the prize is at the end, but Cicada 3301 is back for its third year, and the internet has gone wild. By Alex Hern

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