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August 2024

  • Certainly not subtle in its politics … Dustborn.

    Dustborn review – supernatural road trip across an alternative America

    Dustborn tries to be more than just another narrative travel game, but its half-baked focus on serious topics weighs down great dialogue and beautiful character writing

July 2024

  • Block party … Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure.

    Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure review – shifting expectations

  • Flock.

    Flock review – chill creature-collecting flying game is shear bliss

June 2024

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

    Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 first look – 300GB of spies, zombies and Margaret Thatcher

    Preview of this autumn’s new edition promises fresh missions in the service of US power and a ‘ground floor’ rebuild of the gaming monster truck

May 2024

  • Crow Country screenshot

    Crow Country review – breathtaking survival horror game that harks back to Silent Hill

    This lushly detailed game with a chunkily retro polygonal protagonist is a gorgeous homage to landmark titles of the past

April 2024

  • Dream machine … the Amiga.

    My undying love for the painfully uncool Amiga

    Dominik Diamond
    It may have looked like something you’d see a bank teller use, but it withstood heavy battering. And it ran the coolest games

February 2024

  • PlayStation is to see global cuts to its workforce.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: When even PlayStation is cutting jobs, something is seriously wrong with games

    In this week’s newsletter: Sony’s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development – it’s go big, or go home
  • Silver sign with Sony logo in front of buildings

    Sony to lay off 900 workers in its PlayStation division

    Company will cut 8% of workforce, citing changes in industry and a need to ‘deliver on expectations from developers and gamers’
  • No running, no jumping, no guns, no power-ups or puzzles … Stroke the Animals.

    Stroke of genius? How one developer earned over £250k from games made in 30 minutes

    More than 120,000 PlayStation users have paid £3.29 to pet virtual hamsters, dogs and beavers. What’s behind this madness?

January 2024

  • Crash Bandicoot

    High scores
    ‘People laughed at it’: the unlikely story behind the music of Crash Bandicoot

    For many, the game became the sound of the 90s – but Josh Mancell tells us how the music for PlayStation’s first mascot game originated in Kraft cheese and Kraftwerk

December 2023

  • Screenshot of the Lego Fortnite video game

    Building blocks of a new metaverse: Lego Fortnite is a delight to play

    This open-world survival sim is a shameless act of corporate synergy, but it’s luscious and relaxing, with a nostalgic, surprisingly emotional charm

November 2023

  • Minecraft is one of the games of the 2010s that became a hobby in its own right.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ushered in an era of technical brilliance – but creative timidity

  • Characteristic quirkiness … SteamWorld Build video game artwork.

    SteamWorld Build review – tinker with a tiny township full of robots in hats

October 2023

  • Metal Gear Solid art by Yoji Shinkawa

    Metal Gear Solid at 25: ‘It played a big part in making games grow up’

  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2

    Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 review – a big, wholehearted fantasy full of conflict and emotion

September 2023

  • Upgrading your character just got exciting … Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty.

    Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty review: excellent expansion enhances an overhauled game

  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2

    Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 preview: hands-on with the web-slinging duo

August 2023

  • From l-r: Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Super Mario Bros Wonder and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

    Autumn arts preview 2023
    New worlds of adventure: the most exciting video games of autumn 2023

    From trips into the vast universe of Starfield, or the Islamic golden age, to a cuddly cat caper, these 10 games will be the big players in the coming months
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III

    Call of Duty Modern Warfare III ready for action

    New missions, a fresh 3v3v3 mode and an update of the popular zombie killing side game, Activision is going full bore for what could be John Price’s last stand
  • Gran Turismo Press publicity film still

    Gran Turismo review – gamer turns racer in super-bland ode to product placement

    Rather than embrace the video-game that inspired it, the film is a simulation of cinema featuring a reliably underwhelming cameo from Geri Halliwell Horner
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