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  • Doom title screen

    Doom at 30: what it means, by the people who made it

    In 1993, a team of five coders released what would become one of the most influential video games ever made. Three decades on, they explain how they did it
  • Grand Theft Auto 6.

    Grand Theft Auto: every game and controversy explained

  • Grand Theft Auto VI.

    Pushing Buttons: Our first look at Grand Theft Auto VI was light on information, but high on hype

  • Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game screenshot

    Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review - welcome to the jungle, it’s yours to reclaim

  • A Highland Song video game screenshot

    A Highland Song review – a moving, magical-realist journey through Scottish scenery and mythology

  • scene from Grand Theft Auto 6

    GTA 6 trailer: fast cars, flamingos and a female lead revealed in first look

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Opinion

  • Tetris Effect.

    Tetris puts me in a state of zen. If only it did the same for my family

    Dominik Diamond
  • Keza MacDonald

    Are video game movies about to take over from Marvel?

    Keza MacDonald
  • Composite image of The Great Fairy in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Lady Gaga

    No, Tom Holland shouldn’t play Link: what’s your dream cast for The Legend of Zelda film?

  • Simon Parkin

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s campaign is a queasy anachronism

    Simon Parkin
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Reviews

  • Persona 5 Tactica Scythes of Eternal Darkness Screenshot

    Persona 5 Tactica review – Famous Five-style Jungian urban warfare anyone?

    This stylish if undemanding instalment has some nice touches, but its saccharine dialogue will appeal to only the most committed Persona fans
  • Characteristic quirkiness … SteamWorld Build video game artwork.

    SteamWorld Build review – tinker with a tiny township full of robots in hats

  • Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection

    Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection review – a great way to relive a lost world of gaming

  • Brought arcade games to millions … Atari 2600 Plus retro console.

    Atari 2600+ review – a perfect 1970s pop cultural relic

  • Spraying for victory … Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III.

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III review – exhilarating multiplayer combat rescues a tired format

  • Frog Detective standing in an office while on the phone to the supervisor.

    Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery review – whimsical whodunnits

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What to play

  • From l-r: Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Super Mario Bros Wonder and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

    New worlds of adventure: the most exciting video games of autumn 2023

  • Clockwise from top left: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, A Space for the Unbound and Street Fighter 6.

    The best games of 2023 so far

    Zelda opens up an endless world of possibility, Street Fighter delivers another KO and Star Wars finally gets the game it deserves. We round up the top releases of the past six months
  • GLaDOS from Portal, gaming's most famous evil AI

    Future shockers: 10 great games about rogue AIs

    Right now artificial intelligence is too busy painting and giving factually spurious answers to basic questions to pose much of a threat to humanity, but in video games, AIs have gone further
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    ‘A portal to a different world’: a gamer’s guide to visiting Japan

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    ‘We’ve created this beautiful community’: how Covid changed video game streaming for ever

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    40 years of the Nintendo Famicom – the console that changed the games industry

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    ‘It’s fun to cook up the stupidest idea’: the people competing to make the worst computer games possible

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