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  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Review
    Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is his best and most daring adventure in decades

    Bold choices — including benching Harrison Ford — breathe new life into the beloved franchise

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    20 puzzles and playthings for every occasion

    More board means less bored

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  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
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    How Warhammer maker Games Workshop made it to the FTSE 100

    Maker of tabletop fantasy to enter index after surge in value

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  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
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    30 Birds — a gorgeously rendered interactive picture book

    A stunning 2D world evokes Persian street markets and Japanese paper theatre

    In an image from a video game, a two-dimensional young woman stands with hands on hips looking with curiosity at a series of shapes and patterns
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    The Ukrainian makers of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl — ‘Work keeps you from going crazy’

    From fleeing Kyiv bombings and supporting colleagues on the front, the game’s developers have endured the shadow of war

    In an image from a video game, a decrepit Ferris wheel stands amid a blasted and abandoned scene, surrounded by trees and with an apartment block in the background
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
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    I adored Europa, the ‘last human alive’ game that made me sob

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  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
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    The Rise of the Golden Idol revels in the satisfaction of sleuthing

    Puzzle game does a brilliant job of making you feel like a real detective

    In a cartoonish image from a video game, in a room with a wide window overlooking hills, a man stands behind a podium, gesturing to a group of people sitting in a line of chairs against the window
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Games that offer good clean fun

    Titles such as ‘PowerWash Simulator’ deliver the satisfaction of a job well done, with none of the physical exertion

    An image from a video game shows, from the point of view of the user, a jet-wash hose aimed at a dirty recreational vehicle parked on the driveway of a house
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Tim Harford’s epic, 40-year Dungeons & Dragons odyssey

    How the world’s most influential roleplaying game changed my life and millions of others’

  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
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    Man vs machinima: can video games ever be art?

    The uncanny semi-reality of computer-generated worlds is producing a new form of filmmaking

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  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Silent Hill 2 and the best horror games for Halloween

    A remake of the 2001 classic still chills, while Slitterhead offers campy slasher action

  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
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    Microsoft bets on latest ‘Call of Duty’ to power up video games strategy

    Tech giant hopes ‘Black Ops 6’ will boost Game Pass subscription service as Xbox sales decline

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  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    FT Magazine
    How ‘Factorio’ seduced Silicon Valley — and me

    Tech workers cannot resist the cult video game that asks players to single-handedly restage the Industrial Revolution

    The word “Factorio” is prominently displayed in a mechanical, industrial font, surrounded by a chaotic factory environment
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
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    Neva game review — stunning visuals let down by underbaked allegory

    Sumptuous, Spanish-made action-platformer stars a young woman and a magnificent white wolf 

    In an image from a video game, rocky outcrops with trees and roots growing out of them float amid clouds; the small figure of a white wolf can be made out on one of the outcrops
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Review
    Apartment Story — grungy thriller with a whiff of The Sims

    There’s admirable ambition behind this low-cost title, though narrative hitches mar the experience

    An image from a video game shows a man and a woman standing in an apartment having an animated conversation; both are holding up a can of drink in one hand
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    The unexpected return of point-and-click adventures

    Titles such as ‘Phoenix Springs’ are bringing the genre to a new generation

    An image from a video game shows a simply drawn woman, here eyes almost closed, clutching a sheet of paper, against a largely yellow background
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Review
    Dance with deer at Manhattan game exhibition Group Hug

    Artists’ experiments with video games challenge ideas of form, presentation and playability

    A gamer wearing an immersive headset stands in front of three giant screens where a deer stands in a forest clearing
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Badass. British icon. Colonialist? Inside the battle for Lara Croft’s soul

     The adventures of a tomb raider who changed her ways

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    The Nintendo Museum should be a gamer’s paradise. But there’s a bug in the system

    Kyoto’s temple to Mario and Co is stingy where it matters

    A boy aims a toy bazooka at a giant screen filled with cartoon characters
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Review
    Is Balatro the most addictive game ever created?

    ‘Black Mirror’ creator Charlie Brooker suspects so — and now it’s coming for your phone

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Why small games have a big future

    As gamers turn their backs on gargantuan adventures, we could be entering a golden age of modest titles

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Visual story
    Can you mastermind a US presidential campaign?

    Compete for the White House against other readers in the Election Game

    An illustration of a counter standing behind a podium marked with the US presidential seal
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Review
    UFO 50 — ingenious compendium of 1980s arcade games that never existed

    Celebration of a fictional developer serves as a reminder of early games’ brilliant simplicity and rapid advance

    An image from a video game shows a humanoid figure with insect eyes, carrying a weapon, surrounded by graphics and statistics
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    ‘No Man’s Sky’ and ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ show there is life after death for video-game flops

    Sony recently pulled the plug on ‘Concord’ after two weeks

    An image from a futuristic video game shows a humanoid figure in combat gear and helmet firing a gun; in the background, a giant red planet looms
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Could video games help shape elections?

    Politicians are realising that they can reach into game spaces to access new potential voters

    In an image from a video game, a cartoonish figure of a woman stands on a podium with lists of candidates and qualities on either side of her
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