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June 2023

  • Scarily convincing costumes … Diablo 4.

    Diablo 4 review – a hell of a good time?

    Behind the screams and stunningly-costumed demons, this is escapist junk food for gamers – which may be exactly what you’re after

May 2023

  • The Xbox Series X console.

    The post-console future: where Xbox is looking for its next big hit

  • Combat is where the flaws reveal themselves … Redfall.

    Redfall review – vampire shooter is sucked dry of fun

March 2023

  • Attendees play a video game at E3 in Los Angeles in 2019

    E3 2023: video game industry’s biggest expo cancelled

    The annual event, which faced years of Covid disruption, will not return in 2023
  • Farming Simulator 23.

    How a video game has revolutionised the way farmers are buying tractors

    Farming Simulator lets customers test out new trailers, balers and other machinery before buying the real thing
  • Dredge.

    Dredge review – horrors lurk in the deep in this eldritch fishing game

    Plumbing the depths of our fear of the ocean, this clever and compelling video game will suck you in for hours at a time

February 2023

  • Like a Dragon: Ishin!

    Found in translation: how Like a Dragon brings Japan to the rest of the world

    The game series formerly known as Yakuza has been an inroad to modern Japan for its legions of overseas fans. Now, it hopes to do the same for Japanese history
  • Super Mario Bros 2

    ‘Get something that’s fun to play, then think about the story’: how Nintendo keeps levelling up

    With 100m sales of its Switch console, a new Mario movie and even a California theme park, the Japanese tech giant is riding high again. What’s its secret?
  • A remastered version of the 1997 classic GoldenEye 007.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: Should GoldenEye 007 have stayed in the 90s?

    It’s rare that games of the past hold up to today’s technology. New remasters of two landmark action titles bring back memories, but do they hold up?

January 2023

  • Isolation, carnage, brutality … the marketing art for Dead Space.

    High scores
    ‘Pure terror in musical form’: Dead Space’s composer shares its unsettling secret

    Jason Graves explains how the cult horror game’s score began as a modern, Hollywood soundtrack, but ended up drawing on a 20th-century orchestral technique to create something much scarier

December 2022

  • Goat Simulator 3

    Goat Simulator 3 review – a deranged, self-destructive caprine bender

  • The Activision Blizzard Booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in 2013.

    US agency moves to block landmark merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard

November 2022

  • Pentiment video game, screenshot

    Pentiment review – a Renaissance murder mystery with an eye for historical detail

    An evocative recreation of 16th-century Bavaria examines how the tide of history crashes against the lives of everyday people, all framed by an intriguing crime story

September 2022

  • Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo.

    Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo review – uncomfortable for all the wrong reasons

  • You better believe it … Cult of the Lamb.

    Cult of the Lamb review – grow your own cult in darkly cute game

August 2022

  • Goat Simulator 3 video game screenshot

    Summer games previews
    Goat Simulator 3: Making the stupidest game of the year is trickier than you’d think

  • Pentiment video game, screenshot

    Summer games previews
    Pentiment, the 16th-century murder mystery that looks like a playable tapestry

  • Real-world issues … The Last Worker.

    Summer games previews
    The Last Worker: a futuristic satire in which an online retail megacorp rules the world

  • Colourful escape … Arcade Paradise pays homage to some classic games

    Arcade Paradise review – enjoy some 90s retro vibes in this tribute to classic games

July 2022

  • Money Hacks Video Games WEB

    Money hacks
    How to save money when you buy video games and consoles

    Consider getting physical products, head for sales and beware dodgy resale sites
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