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What the £350 Grand Theft Auto ‘collector’s box’ says about the escalating cost of gaming

The launch of a collector’s box hints at a new reality: the kinds of games I grew up with are becoming a luxury item, locked behind a forbidding spending barrier

Keza MacDonald4d ago

Silver Pines review – a stylish, neo-noir detective drama

Abandoned shops, ruined apartment buildings and rotting sewer networks make up a dark landscape in which you play a private eye searching for a missing singer-songwriter

Keith Stuart5d ago

Gears of War: E-Day review – an alien invasion shouldn’t be this boring

E-Day boasts the best combat in 20 years of Gears games – but everything surrounding it is disappointing

Kirk McKeand1 Oct

How Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil stands out from all other game adaptations

There’s no Leon, Claire or Ada Wong in Cregger’s adaptation. Instead, it re-creates something more fundamental – the strange, terrifying experience of actually playing the game

Keith Stuart30 Sept

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‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children

Criminals are trying to glean login details to harvest players’ in-game currency and personal data

Shane Hickey27 Sept

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve review – brilliant aerial combat game fulfils the Top Gun fantasy

The game generates blood-pumping moments as you twist, turn and weave through the skies, while your locked-on missiles speed away to obliterate an enemy plane

Patrick Lum25 Sept

Playing video games with my 22-year-old son has brought me to tears

I’ve been holed up in an flat, affectionately dubbed the ‘brotel’, with my son for weeks – and we’ve revisited the first game we ever played together

Dominik Diamond25 Sept

Meet the real-life Pokémon professors, the unsung heroes of competitive monster-battling

They offer advice, referee card games and manage players’ tantrums – we caught up with some of the volunteer profs who keep the competitive game going at this year’s world championships

Ana Diaz24 Sept

Why fans are digging their claws into Wolverine over its patronising gameplay

From highlighted ledges to characters telling you what to do, blockbuster games are increasingly taking the challenge out of playing – and players are pushing back

Keza MacDonald23 Sept

Control Resonant review – save New York from paranormal phenomena

A surprisingly conventional game from a famously weird developer, this sequel to 2019’s Control is accomplished but safe

Phil Iwaniuk22 Sept

Silent Hill: Townfall review – shame and suffering on the Scottish coast

Tragedy, and an apocalyptic fog, befall a fishing community. It is up to outsider Simon to offer some kind of closure

Lewis Gordon21 Sept

Roman Sands RE:Build review – marooned in a crumbling vaporwave dream

The latest work from the team behind Paratopic is part compulsive time-loop management sim, part eerie subterranean adventure

Diego Nicolás Argüello21 Sept

Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights

The first console I ever bought, it was hyped as a threat to the PlayStation, then mocked as a flop. But now, as it marks its 25th anniversary, it’s looked back on with misty-eyed reverence

Keza MacDonald16 Sept

‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable

The distinctively British RPG is returning courtesy of the makers of Forza Horizon – with comedy talent such as Richard Ayoade and Natasia Demetriou voicing sweary characters. We had our first play and spoke to its developer

Tom Regan15 Sept

Raiding the past: Lara Croft relives her first adventure in Legacy of Atlantis

We have a first play of the forthcoming Tomb Raider remake and speak with its developers. Can they improve on the gameplay without losing what made the 1996 original such a classic?

Tom Regan11 Sept

Marvel’s Wolverine review – a gloriously conflicted lead is let down by crude, boring battling

Logan is well realised by Liam McIntyre and some exquisite character art, but there are lapses in narrative and emotional arcs and some of the combat feels like a chore

Keith Stuart10 Sept

Streaming from the cloud was meant to change games forever – what happened?

Once hailed as the future, even the likes of Google, Sony and Microsoft have struggled to make streaming games fun, fast or affordable

Keza MacDonald9 Sept

Grand Theft Auto VI: can playing a video game count as cheating on your partner?

Historically a new Grand Theft Auto game inspired controversy around violence – but this time people are getting exercised about its romance

Emma Flint9 Sept

The Trump White House’s fetish for gamer culture has moved up a level with new arcade

A string of distractions on the US government’s own website invite you to catch pixelated migrants – showing gaming’s potential to be nastily weaponised

Keza MacDonald4 Sept

Thieves target mail order sales as Pokémon card prices soar

As one card recently sold for £12m, opportunistic thefts have surged – envelopes are being opened en route, costing small businesses thousands

Daniella Lucas4 Sept

‘Ruin and decay bring a chance of rebirth’: Hidetaka Miyazaki on uniting players in a damaged world

As FromSoftware’s new multiplayer game The Duskbloods nears release, the legendary game director behind Dark Souls talks connection, pessimism and of course, feet

Kirk McKeand3 Sept