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  • A big screen featuring a video game, with statues from the V&A museum in the background.

    Pixels and paintings: video games return to the V&A

    From an interactive session of Sex With Friends to improvised Robot Karaoke, the Friday Live celebration of play and performance amid the museum’s venerable halls was a reminder of gaming’s cultural clout
  • An animated scene showing a dinosaur and two people with moustaches wearing overalls

    The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review – bland screensaver of a movie that’s actually worse than AI

  • Keza MacDonald

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

    Keza MacDonald
  • A man in a suit holds out his hands while speaking.

    CEO of Epic Games apologizes after laying off employee with terminal brain cancer

  • 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
  • a man holding a box

    Sony to hike PS5 prices by $100 as AI and Iran war push up memory chip costs

  • a Nintendo Super Famicom, a 1990s era 16-bit console running the hit Capcom beat 'em up game Street Fighter II on a cathode ray tube television

    My ​quest to ​preserve VHS-​era ​gaming ​culture​, one eBay bid at a time

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Opinion

  • Marathon video game screenshot

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

    Joshua Rivera
  • A screenshot of a woman

    Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game – it’s a bold art film, subtitles and all

    Dominik Diamond
  • Nintendo Switch Sports.

    There’s a reason that Wii Bowling remains my mum’s favourite game of all time

    Dominik Diamond
  • Zoe Hannah and Maddy Myers (right), co-founders of feminist video games website Mothership.

    Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026

    Maddy Myers
  • Willa Holland in The Mortuary Assistant.

    The Mortuary Assistant review – game-inspired horror simulates morgue work with conviction

  • Mythmatch game

    Mythmatch review – a match-three game made in heaven

  • Scott Pilgrim EX, game screenshot

    Scott Pilgrim EX review – is it time to grow up?

  • A delightful collective working together … creatures in Pokémon Pokopia.

    Pokémon Pokopia review – collectible creatures create their own perfect world

What to play

  • Grand Theft Auto VI, left, and Lenny Kravitz as the villain in 007 First Light.

    The 10 most anticipated video games of 2026

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    The 15 best Nintendo Switch 2 games to play in 2026

  • Characters from Split Fiction and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

    The 15 best PS5 games to play in 2026

  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

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

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