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    Homeworld 3 — the perils and pleasures of steering a spaceship in three dimensions

    The real-time strategy game makes you marshal your resources while mastering countless hotkeys

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    The solo-developed Metroidvania has the player exploring a ravishing labyrinth populated by bewitching creatures

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    Manor Lords — rule over your medieval settlement and keep the bandits at bay

    In a new simulation and strategy game, vast swaths of empty countryside are at your disposal

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    Manager of ‘Tomb Raider’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ franchises to restructure as it works to pay down debt

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    Penalty against Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter comes amid concerns about betting industry’s influence on sport

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  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
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    With immersive storylines and powerful, emotive writing, some of the most thrilling fiction out there is being created in game form

    A video game scene depicting a rundown port town
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
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    Exquisite handmade visuals and convincing worldbuilding elevate this cosy story of a janitor and an alien 

    An animated male figure from a video game stands in a room wearing a slightly mournful expression
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    The gaming giant once made as much as 5% of its total sales from Blizzard games

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    A new version of the game promises to drain it of everything that makes it so compelling

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  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
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    Year of high-quality titles hailed even as job losses and studio closures blight industry

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    Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy imagine a nuclear apocalypse in new Amazon series adapted from popular video game

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Your home console can become a gaming museum

    The video game industry has a problem with its heritage: an interactive documentary provides an answer

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  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
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    Open Roads — absorbing game of family secrets

    Character development is the key to this visually stylish walking simulator

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  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
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    Team Ninja’s ambitious new game is set during Japan’s opening-up to the outside world

    In an image from a video game, a person wearing traditional Japanese clothes stands on a hillside looking out over a small town and beyond to the sea, where sailing ships are heading towards the settlement
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
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    Game designer Lucas Pope on bringing aliens to the table in Mars After Midnight

    His new title, set in an extraterrestrial community centre, is a quirky affair made for a niche platform

    An image from a video game shows an owl-like bird with three eyes and a hooked beak
  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
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    Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth game review — a remake that lavishly upgrades the original

    The much-loved role-playing adventure is radically expanded in this second instalment of the trilogy

    An image from a video game shows a character with spiky blond hair wearing armour and looking up
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
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    Pacific Drive review — a game of survival in a shadowy exclusion zone

    Frenzied motoring alternates with quiet moments of solace as you play a delivery clerk in a world where reality is out of kilter

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  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Spending a lot of time on RuneScape

    Cash cow, or fantasy economics?

  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
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    Game over? Industry suffers slowdown after decades-long winning streak

    Sales growth in consoles and mobile apps hit as a darkening mood spreads across $200bn video games sector

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  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Review
    Skull and Bones review — highs and lows of a storm-tossed pirate game

    Ubisoft’s new seafaring adventure finally arrives on the high seas

    An image from a video game shows wooden sailing ships pursuing each other at sea
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Review
    Ultros game review — absorbing action-platformer with a green-fingered twist

    Patience pays off in a game that has you tending a cosmic garden while escaping from a space station

    An image from a video game shows a humanoid figure standing amid gigantic and luxuriant trees and vegetation
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    The video games industry still has a quality-to-price problem

    Too much work, too few sales

  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Review
    Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth review — open-world yakuza epic revels in postmodern absurdity

    Income inequality and a pet lobster are among the features of this enthralling, maddening game

    An image from a video game shows two men in eccentric garb adopting fighting poses, one wearing a gas cylinder on his back, amid a shower of light-streaks
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
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    Tekken 8 and how the fighting game is fighting back

    After a patch of relative irrelevance since its 1990s golden age, the combat video game genre is experiencing a renaissance

    A bare-chested male video game character with exaggerated musculature
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Review
    Home Safety Hotline turns lo-fi premise into high anxiety — review

    A creeping sense of unease infects a domestic emergency help service in this horror game

    An image from a video game shows a picture of a mouse; off to the side are 1990s-style menus and a small picture of a man’s face with the words ‘current caller’ above it
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