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  • Feels like a teen ghost movie … Fear the Spotlight.

    Grab your Ouija board: behind Fear the Spotlight’s 90s-inspired horror

    When two horror movie fans took the leap into game development, the last thing they expected was for an actual movie production company to want to get involved
  • people wearing black shirts hold protest signs in front of a building

    Over 300 video game actors protest over unregulated AI use in Hollywood

  • Matchy matchy … a Candy Crush screenshot.

    Crushing it: why millions of people still can’t stop playing Candy Crush

  • ‘I’ll miss the late-night rounds of Uno’ … a graphic depicting Xbox 360s.

    The Xbox 360’s pioneering online store has gone offline – and it marks the end of a gaming era

  • Thank Goodness You're Here

    Thank Goodness You’re Here! review – sheer vivacity and dark charm

  • ‘Three concepts: Star Wars, open world and a scoundrel story’ … Star Wars Outlaws.

    Star Wars Outlaws: what to expect from Ubisoft’s galactic adventure

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Opinion

  • ‘I’ll miss the late-night rounds of Uno’ … a graphic depicting Xbox 360s.

    The Xbox 360’s pioneering online store has gone offline – and it marks the end of a gaming era

  • Many teens choose of their own free will to spend 10 or 20 hours a week playing games.

    It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are ‘addicted’ to video games

    Keith Stuart and Keza MacDonald
  • Crash Bandicoot

    Platformers are the most diabolical gaming genre. I should know

    Dominik Diamond
  • Grand Theft Auto V's Michael takes a hit from his son's bong

    I tried playing video games stoned for the first time in my 50s – and I have some thoughts

    Dominik Diamond
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  • Thank Goodness You're Here

    Thank Goodness You’re Here! review – sheer vivacity and dark charm

    In this brilliantly surreal, slapstick cartoon puzzler set in a fictitious northern town, you (a junior salesman) help an array of weird characters with odd jobs
  • Block party … Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure.

    Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure review – shifting expectations

  • Flock.

    Flock review – chill creature-collecting flying game is shear bliss

  • Chaotic sci-fi dystopia … Zenless Zone Zero.

    Zenless Zone Zero review – stylish, enchanting and seductive

  • A scene from Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD.

    Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD review – the scariest surprise is the price

  • Still Wakes the Deep.

    Still Wakes the Deep review – The Thing, but on a Scottish oil rig in the 1970s

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What to play

  • Phoenix Springs

    14 unusual video games to discover in 2024

  • From left to right; Dragon's Dogma 2 character, Cloud from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

    The best video games of 2024 so far

    Survive a spooky theme park, embark on a punishing journey through ancient Iceland or try your hand at a magical card game – the year’s best games so far
  • From left … Tekken 8 and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s Cloud Strife.

    The best games to look forward to in 2024

    A first open-world Star Wars saga, something lurks beneath a North Sea oil rig and Tekken 8 continues to blend stylish and ridiculous – the hotly anticipated games of the year to come
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