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  • Draga, protagonist of Black Tides Draga's Wake, played by Dominik Diamond

    After 50 years of playing video games, I’m finally starring in one

    Dominik Diamond
    Voicing the main character in Black Tides Draga’s Wake led to me making the kinds of noises I haven’t made since my honeymoon but also one of my favourite moments as a father
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    Night Plane review – join the jumbo jet to hell in this indie horror head trip

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    Outcry after Call of Duty maker uses real footage of deadly Seoul crowd crush in new video game

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    Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?

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  • In The Killing Stone game, a horned demon looms over small figurines on a glowing ritual mat

    Eight great new indie horror games for Halloween

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    Lara Croft is 30! We look at the video game icon’s biggest blunders

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Opinion

  • A scene from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 showing a soldier aiming a rifle as a helicopter flies overhead near mountains

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

    Dominik Diamond
  • Jason and Lucia stand back-to-back holding rifles as cash flies through the air

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

    Emma Flint
  • Keza MacDonald

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

    Keza MacDonald
  • Strange yellow figure runs away from boxing gloves on the end of hoses in a shot from a phone game called Annoying Uncle Punch

    Help! I have disappeared down a rabbithole of horrible mobile gaming adverts

    Dominik Diamond
  • A penguin stands on snow near a glowing orb beside dark statue-like silhouettes in icy fog

    Penguin Colony review – an Antarctic odyssey of Nazis and Lovecraftian horrors

  • Andrew Koji and Noah Centineo in Street Fighter

    Street Fighter review – nostalgia only goes so far in junky fighting game movie

  • Belmont's Curse screenshot: a warrior with orange hair and a teal cloak gazes intensely

    Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse review – every fantastical vampire-hunting vision is fulfilled

  • End of Abyss video game screenshot

    End of Abyss review – a creepy dollhouse take on Resident Evil and The Thing

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