‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2
MindsEye review – a dystopian future that plays like it’s from 2012
May 2025
GTA6 gets it on: can the notoriously cynical action series finally find time for romance?
Keith Stuart
The newest trailer indicates Grand Theft Auto VI may have a soft centre, with its focus on outlaw lovers Lucia and Jason
March 2025
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Back to the feudal: Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen
This thrilling trip through Japan is the best the series has given us in years
February 2025
Avowed review – Annihilation meets Oblivion in a vast, intricate fantasy
Obsidian’s huge, heavily detailed fantasy world has a lot of variety and texture, and interesting people to meet - but the combat and exploration wear thin
January 2025
Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is an early contender for 2025’s silliest game
The latest in the Like a Dragon series of Japanese crime drama is taking an improbably nautical turn – but its makers want you to know that it’s still got heart
December 2024
The video games you may have missed in 2024
A returning classic, a Love Island send-up and an answer to the age-old question: can you fry eggs atop Mount Everest? The year’s best games that might have passed you by
2024 in Culture
The 20 best video games of 2024
Ingenious puzzle games, a psychedelic take on poker, an action-packed take on Buddhist legend and a compilation of 50 faux-retro titles – our critics pick the year’s finest
PlayStation at 30: the console that made video games cool
Launched in Japan in December 1994, the record-breaking PlayStation started out as a CD add-on for the Super Nintendo – but ended up ushering video games into a new era all on its own
November 2024
Am I too old to be a mobster? I played Mafia: Definitive Edition to find out
Dominik Diamond
I finally got to live out my gangster fantasies and found I fit right in with this bunch of jabronis
October 2024
‘Our ghost meter went crazy’ : we played horror games all night in a haunted prison
Halloween is coming, and our minds are turning to scary games. But which titles are genuine fright fests? Our writers decided to find out in the most ill-advised way possible
September 2024
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6: omni-movement is a literal game changer
This seemingly minor addition allows players to sprint and dive in every direction so crunch moments can feel like a ridiculously fun John Woo shootout
August 2024
Simon Parkin on games
Cygni: All Guns Blazing review – a thrilling new space frontier
The Scottish studio’s debut game is a fiendishly innovative take on the classic space battle genre
Black Myth: Wukong review – a fantastically exciting action game
Prior to this release, few would have heard of Chinese developer Game Science, but the studio has produced a totally original epic
Summer games previews
‘Even more vicious and threatening than before’: the fantastical creatures of Monster Hunter Wilds
Dustborn review – supernatural road trip across an alternative America
Simon Parkin on games
Voice Mimicry Show review – a gloriously ridiculous party game
July 2024
Summer games previews
Black Myth: Wukong – the summer’s most exciting, and most controversial, video game
High scores
The Last of Us has three main characters: Ellie, Joel and Gustavo Santaolalla’s music
June 2024
Cheap AI voice clones may wipe out jobs of 5,000 Australian actors
Industry group says rise of vocal technology could upend many creative fields, including audiobooks – the canary in the coalmine for voice actors
