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The anime phenomenon Sword Art Online presents a world every gamer has fantasized about at one point or another. That is, a world with the technology to virtually transport you into a video game, complete with all five of your earthly senses. And while there’s no way to tell if …

Hard to believe, but it’s been four years since we first fired up Stardew Valley (opens in new tab) and began work on our farms. One pixelated little delight turned a legion of gamers into fishermen, pumpkin growers, and miners, and the game still has a devoted following. A community …

Read more great retro features in Retro Gamer magazine (Image credit: Future) The Making of Theme Hospital feature originally ran in issue #130 of Retro Gamer magazine, 2014. If you want to read more excellent long-form features and developer interviews about history’s best games every month, and you can save …

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming to an end. Season 7 – which starts streaming weekly on Disney Plus from Friday, February 21 – brings the animated series to a close, concluding the Darth Vader origin story the prequels never told.   If you’ve not watched the Star Wars: …

When you think of Silent Hill, what springs to mind? Creepy jangly music, foggy streets and those weirdly sexualised flesh-faced nurses? Thought so. Now forget it all. Leave it behind because if a new Silent Hill is ever to succeed it needs to bring something new to the table in …

To compete with the highly successful Xbox One Elite 2 Controller, earlier this year Sony hastily revealed and then released a DualShock 4 back button attachment to give PS4 players a quick, cheap way to graft mappable buttons to their controllers. From the moment the attachment was announced in December, …

By now, you’ve probably gawped at the shadowy Robert Pattinson Basuit teaser (opens in new tab) for The Batman (opens in new tab) for as long as humanly possible – if you could make any of it out, that is. Hidden behind the dim black-and-red filter, though, are a handful …

Google Stadia (opens in new tab) has had a troubled inception. The cloud-based game streaming service, which launched in November 2019, arrived short on the features it promised to those who’d pre-ordered the Founder’s Edition, including omitting the Buddy Pass – three month’s premium access to the service to gift …

It was supposed to be a normal Tuesday for the Destiny 2 (opens in new tab) community. A routine weekly reset. The Season of Dawn roadmap didn’t indicate anything was happening. As far as anyone was concerned, this was just like any other in-game week for the Guardian faithful.  But …

The Sims is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and it’s been nearly that long since I last played the strategic life-simulation game. I stopped playing the original Sims circa 2003, so naturally, I decided it would be a good idea to re-learn how to build within the draconian laws …