The passing of hardware designer Hideki Sato has made me reflect on how the Sega Master System shaped the way I enjoy video ...

Mario Tennis Fever puts the nostalgia debate to bed and succeeds on its own terms as an excellent tennis game for Nintendo ...

Grid Legends races to Nintendo Switch 2, but can Feral Interactive repeat its porting magic? Grid Legends first hit PC and consoles in 2022. It earned strong reviews, no mean feat given competition ...

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment tells a sweeping war story that makes the Musou formula feel essential. There’s nothing better than when a video game just surprises you. Whether it’s a mechanic, ...

Split Fiction doesn’t just move at a clip. It blazes like Tom Cruise sprinting across the rooftops of London. I’m not sure I’ve ever experienced an hour of video game action as whirldwind as Split ...

While the Hollywood machine spins its wheels in nostalgia, two recent video games take Star Wars and Indiana Jones into fresh territory. There’s something risky about revisiting the stories that ...

What happens when you bring experimental theatre into a sci-fi video game? In an insightful talk at GDC 2025, Remy Siu, founder and creative director of Sunset Visitor, revealed how the story of ...

Balatro picks up the top prize at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards. Balatro was the big winner at the 25th annual GDC Awards. The roguelike deck builder developed by LocalThunk secured four ...

Consume Me wins the Grand Prize at the 27th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards. The IGF awards, held as part of the 2025 Game Developers Conference, celebrated the most innovative and ...

Heading to GDC 2025? Here are our top picks from a packed lineup of panels, talks, and tutorials. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) returns to the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week, ...

Organisers of the 25th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards have confirmed this year’s list of finalists. The awards celebrate the achievements of game developers across a diverse mix of genres and ...

When publishers passed on Venba, the game’s commercial prospects looked slim, but the public’s appetite for a very personal cooking game proved the tastemakers wrong. Venba is a cooking game in which ...