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December 2023

  • Photo of friends sitting in the living room, having fun and playing charades together

    From ‘esoteric’ to ‘wacky’: eight games to keep big kids (and grownups) off their screens on holiday

    Conflict-defusing, time-killing or just plain joy-inducing, these games promise fun or respite for the long summer days ahead

February 2021

  • Keith Stuart

    Amazon, Google and why you can't just invent a blockbusting games developer

    Keith Stuart
    The failure of two online giants shows you can’t just pour in money and watch games pop out – a game studio culture takes time to develop

November 2019

  • A VR gamer using the VRGO Mini.

    How to build the perfect set-up for video games

    For the latest in keyboards, monitors and headsets, our jargon-free accessories guide will raise your game

October 2018

  • Frontier justice … Bungie’s Destiny 2: Forsaken reboot.

    Has Destiny 2's Forsaken expansion revitalised the space opera?

    Bungie’s billion-dollar shooter game is winning back players by investing its alien prey with personality – and providing plenty to do when the gunfire stops

June 2018

  • Gaming fans play Fortnite at E3 2018 in Los Angeles.

    Fortnite: schools warn parents of 'negative effects' of video game on students

    Several Australian schools have issued advice to parents about potential for bullying or abuse

February 2018

  • Ryozo Tsujimoto

    Call me Mr Monster Hunter: the man who turned a Japanese curiosity into a global smash

    Capcom’s Monster Hunter: World is now the fastest selling game in its history. But for 10 years, the series struggled to find success outside Japan. What changed?

September 2017

  • Young, single and ready to mingle … one of the Hatch family in the game Ever, Jane.

    Where's the curtsy button? I test-drive the online Jane Austen role-playing game

    Jane Austen’s works have been given the World of Warcraft treatment, but with dinner parties instead of dungeons – and gossip instead of guns. Our writer ties on her virtual bonnet and goes hunting for a suitor

January 2017

  • Chelsea, who makes her living by gaming at home on Twitch

    The women who make a living gaming on Twitch

    ‘There’s definitely like, a secret girls’ club,’ and women say they need it in the male-dominated gamer world

July 2016

  • Man playing Pokemon Go on his phone

    Pokémon Go player crashes car into school while playing game

    Australian police say 19-year-old likely to be charged after he drove into a school building while trying to catch a creature in the popular mobile app

April 2016

  • Miitomo avatars.

    The month in games
    The month in games: Nintendo goes mobile

  • Videogame Rust identity range

    Why my videogame chooses your character’s race and gender for you

    Garry Newman

February 2016

  • Coach Tim “Carbon” Wendel and Team Legacy

    Gaming goes pro: meet one of Australia's top League of Legends teams

    Team Legacy has moved in together to train for the Oceanic Pro League – but convincing parents that gaming is a viable career choice is often a greater challenge than the tournaments themselves

October 2015

  • 3D rendering of Sergio Aguero’s head, produced using EA Sports game data modelling the player’s appearance in the FIFA game.

    Pitch to pixel: the world of football gaming – in pictures

    From the first videogame, Intellivision Soccer, to a 3D rendering of Sergio Aguero’s head used in EA Sports’ Fifa 16, a new exhibition at the National Football Museum celebrates four decades of football gaming. Here are some of the highlights including Rio Ferdinand’s annoyance at his statistics on Fifa 15 and a rejection letter to the producers of Football Manager from EA Sports.

August 2015

  • Sarkeesian lead pic

    Anita Sarkeesian interview: 'The word "troll" feels too childish. This is abuse'

    When Anita Sarkeesian launched a YouTube series on misogyny in video games, she received death threats and was forced into hiding. A year on from GamerGate, she explains why a global ‘temper tantrum’ won’t make her quit

January 2015

  • Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain

    Is the Metal Gear Solid V chicken hat the greatest gaming aid ever?

    The latest instalment in Hideo Kojima’s stealth action series will allow novice players to don a chicken hat making them invisible to enemies

December 2014

  • Skylanders offers more than 30 collectible toy figures

    Video games: ‘smart’ plastic figures put fantasy play back on living room carpet

    Andy Robertson: Toys that interact with their screen counterparts are firing young imaginations and fuelling a £200m market

November 2014

  • Golem Arcana in action.

    Board games are back
    How the boundary between board and video games is blurring

  • Dragon Age: Inquisition

    Dragon Age: Inquisition – Mike Laidlaw on the creative process, part one

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