Following the game’s hero into hellish madness, Petri Alanko required an especially unsettling score. Enter a noise machine that disturbed even Stephen King
As Bafta’s video game awards celebrate their 20th outing, the full list of nominations reflects a outstandingly creative year
Visual Concepts pulls off an incredible reversal on this formerly beleaguered series, just in time for Wrestlemania’s big 4-0
In this week’s newsletter: Like Kratos’s axe and Halo’s Warthogs before it, Pacific Drive’s beat-up banger and I have formed a lasting connection as we survive a scary world together
Eerie and uplifting, the first Moomins video game for over a decade sends anti-authoritarian Snufkin on a mission to restore the nature of Moominvalley
On this delightfully silly journey your challenge is to explore the supermarket aisles, meet the staff – and freezer goblin – and buy alcohol for teenage loiterers. Cheers!
Paradroid, Boulder Dash and Break Dance are among the classic C64 games repackaged for the 21st century in this weird but lovely compilation
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
Little discussed outside its fanbase, it amassed 75 million registered users who provide a brilliantly welcoming community for neurodivergent gamers
Last week, I downloaded a game called Balatro for a few casual turns on Steam Deck. I haven’t been able to think of much else since