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  • Title screen for Daley Thompson's Super Test video game showing various Olympic events

    I touched a ZX Spectrum for the first time in decades – and I liked it

    Dominik Diamond
    Meeting ‘my people’ – video gamers with very long memories – took me back to an era of machine play that lacked megabytes but had far more tangible presence
  • An orange sports car skids on a country road in the new James Bond game, 007 First Light.

    ‘You can be any Bond you want’: the inside story of 007 First Light

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    Forbidden Solitaire review – cards flip into delirious trip back to 90s horror

  • Space warrior in fancy armour kneeling on an alien planet

    Saros review – you’ll strafe until your thumbs hurt in this primal alien shooter

  • A man in a white suit and black trousers holds a briefcase and grins at the camera while standing in a subway tunnel.

    ‘Opening the hidden door within us’: how Exit 8 took a simple game to purgatory

  • Imogen West-Knights

    What my zen week with a virtual power-washer taught me about gaming – and life

    Imogen West-Knights
  • Samurai on horseback among cherry blossoms in Ghost of Yotei screenshot

    The Bafta games awards showed me again that honouring art over commerce is a win for all

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Opinion

  • Keza MacDonald

    Including online games in social media bans is unworkable, unnecessary and would harm young people

    Keza MacDonald
  • Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator game, screenshot

    Stop the world, I want to get off and run a video rental store in the 1990s

    Dominik Diamond
  • Keith Stuart

    The creator of Fortnite has laid off more than 1,000 staff – despite billions in revenue

    Keith Stuart
  • Marathon video game screenshot

    In the killer world of online gaming, there are no hits any more – just survivors

    Joshua Rivera
  • Naru Asanuma and Kazunari Ninomiya in Exit 8. A boy and a man stare anxiously down a featureless white-tiled corridor

    Exit 8 review – Escher-esque subway station corridor leads to disquieting psychological mystery

  • Replaced video game screenshot

    Replaced review – nostalgic cyberpunk tribute has few ideas of its own

  • Pragmata.

    Pragmata review – soulful sad dad saga in stunning outer space

  • Life is Strange: Reunion video game screenshot: Max and Chloe

    Life Is Strange: Reunion review – a decade-long story comes to an impassioned close

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    The 15 best PS5 games to play in 2026

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    The 15 best Xbox Series S/X games to play in 2026

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