Last week, I was standing in a huge dance studio – one of 12 – near the top of a funky new office tower just north of the Han River in the South Korean capital, Seoul. The building is home […]
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Sony could face £5bn in legal claims over PlayStation game charges
Sony has been overcharging PlayStation gamers for six years, a new legal claim alleges, and could be forced to pay almost £5bn in damages if the claim succeeds. According to Alex Neill, the consumer champion who has filed the case […]
Global success of Cult of the Lamb showcases Australian video games development talent
There’s a whole marketing industry out there trying to persuade the world to buy Aussie lamb. But our latest international success story is a bit more digital – not to mention eldritch – than meaty. Cult of the Lamb, a […]
A midlife crisis in space: the Alters is a sci-fi comedy starring hapless clones
A sci-fi management sim from the team behind climate crisis fable Frostpunk, The Alters turns the classic video game concept of the “extra life” into a source of manpower. Protagonist(s) Jan Dolski is the sole survivor of a crash-landed mining […]
Meet the gaymers: why queer representation is exploding in video games
Fresh from a drag performance featuring a gender-swapped Mario and Princess Peach chasing each other around on stage, after watching a burlesque performer disrobe to the Tetris theme, I am standing at the bar waiting for a drink, surrounded by […]
Playing video games has no effect on wellbeing, study finds
Time spent playing video games has no effect on people’s wellbeing, a study from the University of Oxford has found, countering fears that gaming could be harmful to mental health. Unlike the vast majority of previous studies on the effect […]
From Where the Crawdads Sing to Uncoupled: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Going Out: Cinema Where the Crawdads SingOut nowNormal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones heads to the swamplands of North Carolina to star in this adaptation of the hit mystery novel by Delia Owens about an abandoned girl who grows up in the […]
When life gives you lemons, video games can be the escape we need
The worst thing about video games is also the best thing: their addictiveness. When you find the right one? The rest of the world can go to hell. That helped me as a child: I could use them to escape […]
Stray review – press paws for adorable life as a post-apocalypse pussycat
I have walked around decaying cyberpunk cities such as these many times before, with their omnipresent neon signage and filthy streets, their grimy verticality. Usually I am expected to shoot someone. But this time, I’m slinking around the fluorescent-lit slums […]
Super Mario Brothers Karamazov: literature begins to take gaming seriously
Early on in Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, one of the trio of lead characters gives a fictional interview to a very real video games publication. The troubled but passionate Samson Mazur tells the interviewer, “There is no […]
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