Gaming

Making Tears of the Kingdom: Inside The Legend of Zelda's finest hour

Nintendo developers Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi exclusively reveal how they followed one of the best video games ever made

Jack Rear

Rock star developers, low poly grapes, and clip-on cat ears: Inside the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest

From cosplay to console wars and the reveal of a new expansion, Dawntrail, this Las Vegas party had it all

Dan Silver
Redfall review: vampire blaster is a bloody, baffling, but often beguiling mishmash

Arkane's open-world vampire shooter has some of the developer's trademark spark, but is let down by an identity crisis and technical woes

Tom Hoggins
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review: a fizzy, fun if unfocused galactic adventure

Respawn's Star Wars sequel builds on its promising predecessor, even if it suffers from the same lack of focus

Tom Hoggins
'Until you have a million people show up, you just never know': Blizzard on the Diablo 4 beta, loot and a development culture shift

After a few teething issues, Diablo 4 has had an auspicious start with its beta, here its creators talk about managing the queues to hell

Tom Hoggins

Reviews

Twisted Metal, review: Mad Max mixed with Nineties nostalgia makes for riotous fun

Adapted from PlayStation’s hit video game, Marvel star Anthony Mackie has a ball in this bloody, all-guns-blazing dystopia

Ed Power
Women footballers line up alongside men in new EA Sports FC videogame

The new EA Sports offering comes without the 'Fifa' branding, but it is all that different from what came before?

Dan Silver
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom review: Nintendo's magnificent return to Hyrule

The long awaited follow-up to the seminal Breath of the Wild is an expected, inventive triumph for Nintendo's famous series

Jack Rear
Redfall review: vampire blaster is a bloody, baffling, but often beguiling mishmash

Arkane's open-world vampire shooter has some of the developer's trademark spark, but is let down by an identity crisis and technical woes

Tom Hoggins
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review: a fizzy, fun if unfocused galactic adventure

Respawn's Star Wars sequel builds on its promising predecessor, even if it suffers from the same lack of focus

Tom Hoggins
EA Sports PGA Tour review - a great golfing comeback

EA's return to the course is a surprisingly understated and supremely accomplished golf sim

Tom Hoggins

Features

My night in a 'gaming suite' forced me to reckon with the time I spend playing video games

Gaming has become big business, but does this luxury hotel suite actually change the game for travelling players?

Jack Rear
From Resident Evil 4 to Final Fantasy XVI - These are the best games of 2023

Spacefaring, samurai and Spider-Man form some of the gaming highlights of 2023. Here, in chronological order, are the most notable releases

Tom Hoggins
How Pokémon Go went from viral sensation to serious competition

Pokémon Go began its life as a simple virtual treasure hunt, but gamers have made it into a popular competitive tournament

Jack Rear
FIFA 23 hands-on preview: focus on women's football makes final FIFA game the most inclusive ever

It's business as usual elsewhere on the pitch as EA Sports and FIFA begin their long goodbye

Dan Silver

Inside esports

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Jodie Comer’s pixelated hell: why Hollywood stars are ruining video games

The Killing Eve actor’s star turn in Alone in the Dark shows casting celebrities is a waste of money, talent – and precious development time

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Twisted Metal, review: Mad Max mixed with Nineties nostalgia makes for riotous fun

Adapted from PlayStation’s hit video game, Marvel star Anthony Mackie has a ball in this bloody, all-guns-blazing dystopia

Ed Power
I played ‘Wetherspoons The Game’ – it gave me daquiris, wine and faith in humanity

A viral Facebook community is buying food and drink for strangers each day purely in the spirit of altruism, so I decided to try my luck

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Israel, Palestine and the prickly politics of The Last Of Us season 2

Violence in the Middle East inspired Israeli-American Neil Druckmann to create his game and TV show – and may cause problems for its sequel

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