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What links Horrible Histories and Gordon Brown’s neighbour? The bumper summer quiz

From award-winning Julies to golfers who were nearly the best, test your knowledge with this bumper summer quiz

Thomas Eaton26 Jul

‘An anthem for the co-dependent’: Bad Magpie is corvid carnage with a side of existential angst

Going by the mantra, if you want to make someone laugh, make them cry first, the game’s developers have created a lonely magpie who fills the void by wreaking havoc

Chris Schilling24 Jul

There Are No Ghosts at the Grand – stripping back the physical and metaphorical layers of a haunted hotel

Renovate rooms, investigate the supernatural and watch people burst into song in this surreal British ghost story

Jordan Erica Webber23 Jul

How Pokémon Go encouraged me to find wonder in the world

These days, I ‘collect’ birdsong and wild flowers, but it all started when my sons and I first set out to find Pikachu and pals• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here

Keith Stuart22 Jul

Red Kiss – guiding vampires through a blood-soaked cold war Berlin

Inspired by interactive theatre and fuelled by the motion capture tech used by VTubers, the vampire spies in Red Kiss have personality in spades

Diego Argüello22 Jul

Splatoon Raiders review – Nintendo’s inky shooter fades to grey

The single-player offshoot of the quirky and colourful multiplayer series is disappointingly run-of-the-mill

Joshua Rivera21 Jul

Bub – living an artist’s dreams and dreads in New York

An autobiographical game about the devastating effects of chronic illness on an artist’s creative life gives players the chance to slow the pace right down

Nicole Carpenter21 Jul

Apple Crumble: a tasty Knives Out-inspired mystery that lets you snoop on your own family

The developer of Duck Detective reveals details of her ‘sad grandma game’ follow-up: a whodunnit – or who-plans-to-do-it? – with a darker edge

Nicole Carpenter20 Jul

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Konami classic rises again from Paris sewers and Joan of Arc is a boss

Evil Empire creatives explain how it is playing to today’s ‘metroidvanias’ and honouring the original’s legacy with much fresh slaying to be done

Tom Regan17 Jul

Denshattack! review – time to get on board with kickflipping trains

Colourful, counter-cultural and captivating, this rail riding game set in a dystopian Japan is as weird as it is exhilarating

Meghan Ellis16 Jul

Zombies, gore and creepy kids – why we can’t stop playing horror games

As global anxieties multiply, video games from Resident Evil to Mouthwashing are providing rich source material to help decode society’s problems

Keith Stuart15 Jul

D-topia review – cosy sci-fi mystery takes aim at AI

A soft puzzle game makes a sharp point about the over-optimised future ahead

Lewis Gordon14 Jul

PlayStation says it will stop making physical games – and that should worry us all

Sony’s announcement spells the end of a whole ecosystem built by superfan collectors – and signals a troubling shift in the industry

Keith Stuart9 Jul

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced review – bootyful high seas adventure, now with 20% more swashbuckling

Ubisoft has removed all the boring parts of pirate life from its fantasy RPG, creating something far more focused and fun

Phil Iwaniuk8 Jul

‘You never truly quit’: how RuneScape survived to 25 – and beyond

The massively multiplayer online role-playing game has grown into a virtual social space and part of daily life for thousands of players

George Francis Lee7 Jul

What is Paralives? The creative life simulator game that could rival The Sims

With players leaving EA’s series once life there felt like a grind beset by ethical concerns, this quirky new sim promises a better life elsewhere

Vic Hood3 Jul

Rhythm Paradise Groove review – exhilarating bitesize beats test your reflexes

A joyful collection of vibrant bite-sized, rhythm games includes catching veggies in mid-air, practising dance choreographies and speaking to an alien

Diego Nicolás Argüello2 Jul

No console-flation: how the thirst for AI chips is sending games console prices soaring

AI data centres, memory scarcity and factory capacity are costing consumers –and console makers

Keith Stuart1 Jul

Signet City – futuristic parasites feed off 80s social realism in dystopian RPG

Advanced preview of the upcoming sci-fi game from Gareth Damian Martin showcases their unmistakable talent for innovation and game design

Steve Boxer1 Jul

‘I felt like Orpheus’: how the designer of Gears of War bounced back from studio closure by producing Hadestown

After suffering the schadenfreude of gamers online, the Tony-winning Broadway musical offered redemption to Cliff Bleszinski

Jeremy Peel30 Jun

Behold, the most realistic golf game ever – it took me 428 strokes to finish a hole

Normal Golf Game takes a tiresomely easy genre and makes it infernally difficult. Which deserves a round of applause

Dominik Diamond26 Jun