In this week’s Pushing Buttons, we explore why games have become intertwined with politics and what that means for the discerning video game vote
Instruction manuals died out as video games introduced tutorials instead. But now games such as Tunic and The Banished Vault are bringing them back
A limited-edition ‘Pikachu With Grey Felt Hat’ trading card drew in a new, younger audience to the Amsterdam gallery but caused mayhem
For many, the game became the sound of the 90s – but Josh Mancell tells us how the music for PlayStation’s first mascot game originated in Kraft cheese and Kraftwerk
From the 80s driving experience of Outrun and After Burner’s dogfighting F-14 to Golden Axe’s high fantasy hack-’em-up – here’s what you wished was in your local arcade
Thoroughly reimagined new iteration of 34-year-old series opens up a labyrinthine world littered with enemies and traps to overcome
In this week’s newsletter: A companion app to the new series lets viewers vote on and predict what happens on the show – and it’s a sign TV is embracing games more than ever
Focusing on power and politics, this Mácula Interactive docu-game draws on muralists, an assassination and newspaper reporting in painstakingly historically accurate detail
After a labyrinth of menus as intuitive as dadaist poetry, players are rewarded with knockoffs of decades-old games too maliciously bad to have been designed by AI
Two licensed handhelds, from Taito and Capcom, come with a host of old favourites from their back catalogues, and the quality of the game emulation is excellent