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No, this isn’t another ‘contrary’ dig at the cult of Destiny (opens in new tab), dear reader. Instead, my potent ire is directed at something far broader and mainstream than men, women and children who get up at the crack of dawn to mine spinmetal with their chums. My beef …

Now, I know there’s been a lot of pixels lately. It’s like the indie world has decided en masse to pretend the last twenty years of gaming didn’t happen. And, if it means it’ll erase Kane and Lynch 2, maybe that’s not such a bad thing… However, if you only …

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a loose alliance of developers and pundits pooled their intellectual resources, struck dramatic poses and declared that single player gaming as we knew it was at death’s door. This was and remains a bloody stupid idea, but the evidence back …

With Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s Silent Hills project being officially cancelled (opens in new tab), it feels only right to look back at the original Silent Hill and what made the series so great… Nobody in Konami’s horror ever solved their problems by punching out a caravan-sized boulder. …

He loved Big Brother It can’t have escaped your notice that there is a general election around the corner. Yes, it’s almost time for the peoples of the United Kingdom to once more elect a ruling body who will guide us hand-in-hand to a brighter future. Possibly. But that got …

Soft to the touch If you like scaring off potential lovers by turning your bed into a sea full of stuffed animals, then have I got the list for you. Video game land is filled to the brim with critters ripe for shrinking down into huggable plushie form, so Ive …

Check the meter For as long as there have been video games there have been systems in place to ensure that those video games do not continue on unabated. After all, what good is a truly endless experience, an interaction without incentive? Once the initial novelty wears off, what then? …

Harmonix Music Systems is not your average developer. Ever since its founding in 1995, the Boston-based studio has specialised in the dazzling crossover between music and interaction – from early and largely unknown projects such as CamJam, which used body movements to trigger audio sequences, to the globe-conquering phenomena of …

Rock Band 4 (opens in new tab) and Guitar Hero Live (opens in new tab) are hoping to recapture the boom of last-gen’s plastic instrument peripherals on the latest consoles. Though it’s still early days, it seems like both games are aiming to play up the fantasy of being a …

In our regular polarising-opinion series, one Total Film writer hails the divisive Only God Forgives as an outright masterpiece. Read on, and let us know if you agree with the argument put forward by having your say in the comments section below. Is it just me?… Or is Only God …