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Rami Ismail bids us “good morning” in a voice that betrays his jetlagged state. It’s little wonder he’s tired: three weeks earlier, he left his studio in Utrecht, flying to Chicago to take part in a game jam during the 52-hour train journey from the Windy City to GDC in …

This animated adaptation is visually impressive, but falls short when it comes to story. Here’s Jordan Farley’s reaction… Since its publication in 1943 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s illustrated novella The Little Prince has become one of the best-selling books ever made, with nearly two million copies bought every year. It’s beloved, …

Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin) directs an unlikely siege movie starring Patrick Stewart as a neo-Nazi. Here’s Jordan Farley’s reaction… Almost every year a film screening out of competition in the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes becomes the talking point of the festival, with whispered hyperbole (or justified praise) spreading along the …

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? …