The Guardian » 13 hours ago
From Fable and Life Is Strange to Last of Us, Thirsty Suitors and Unpacking, five queer game developers and writers pick their sweetest, realest, most meaningful scenesLife Is Strange, as a series, is really characterised by a patented mix of earnestness and cringe for me...
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The Guardian » 6 days ago
The 2002 adaptation of the horror video game sparked a six-film, billion-dollar franchise – and a fruitful romance between its director and his action hero...
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The Guardian » 6 days ago
The award-wining composer of soundtracks to video games including Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is composing again for the first time since a traumatic pandemicFor the fortunate among us, the Covid lockdowns have, years later, become a memory – if not distant, then cert...
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The Guardian » 5 days ago
In Kojima’s latest epic, the Australian outback becomes a shifting, spectral landscape that you can get lost inAs a teenager in the late 1980s, I became obsessed with Australian new wave cinema, thanks partly to the Mad Max trilogy, and partly to an English teacher at my ...
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The Guardian » 4 weeks ago
Slinging bodies into a pickup as Kovalsky in Crime Scene Cleaner reminded me of Greg Davies in The Cleaner – there is something grimly satisfying about death’s aftermathLately I’ve been playing a new job sim game, Crime Scene Cleaner, while also watching BBC’s comedy seri...
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The Guardian » 4 weeks ago
Allegations against three former executives include bullying and assault as Assassin’s Creed maker faces #MeToo momentThe first big trial to result from the #MeToo movement in the ...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Everyone might be talking about the new title from gaming’s favourite plumber, but there’s at least one other interesting original launching with the new console this weekThe interesting thing about console launches is that you never know what unexpected treasures will em...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The new console from the makers of Mario hit shelves this week. Is it any good?The Nintendo Switch 2 came out this week. Depending on your familiarity with gamer culture, that sentence will either mean absolutely nothing to you, or have you bouncing up and down in your se...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
It’s not the new generation of handheld gaming some might have been hoping for, but this is a highly refined version of the original consoleThere was a time when the designers of the Switch 2 were considering calling their new machine the Super Nintendo Switch. They decid...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Nintendo Switch 2; NintendoThe Nintendo Switch 2’s flagship game is a winner, and often feels more like a journey with your friends than a straight competitionI realised that we might have a Mario Kart World problem in our house when...
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