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Modern Warfare’s mission briefings might be pornography for hardcore military fetishists – all bristling gun barrels and intimate exhaust port close-ups – but there’s really only one vehicle that makes an impact deserving of Infinity Ward’s near-reverential treatment. For a game that’s in constant, unabashed thrall to military hardware, the …

Today we can reveal the full lineup of sessions for our forthcoming game conference, Hype, which takes place on January 14 at London’s Ham Yard Hotel, and will see us joined onstage by some of the videogame industry’s most renowned talents, including Phil Harrison (Alloy Platform Industries), David Braben (Frontier …

Science has mostly usurped the supernatural in our collective consciousness, but the concept of magic is too old and too meaningful to just fade away. The inexplicable continues to slip through the chinks in reason, taking the form of ghostly presences, statistical flukes, and psychedelic experiences. But the kind of …

Where many open-world action games are akin to sandboxes, Hitman: Blood Money is perhaps best viewed as a series of toy boxes. Each level is relatively small in scale, its parameters easily defined, but the possibilities for inventive play are numerous. The game offers several testing grounds for crazy assassination …

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 …

Whenever Simogo attends a game conference, Simon Flesser will give his job title as “a little bit of everything”, while Magnus ‘Gordon’ Gardebäck is referred to as “Strongman”. It’s a typically unorthodox response for a two-man studio that wilfully defies pigeonholing, its output so far taking in whimsical action games …

Fiery watercolour skies and shimmering auroras are how Hinterland chooses to showcase its take on the end of the world, but even the most atmospheric screenshots can’t convey the sound of Canada’s deep north – the thunderous wind that scorns clothing and shakes window panes, or the thoughtful silence that …

Susan Calman is a Scottish comedian, writer and actor who regularly guests as a panellist on BBC Radio 4 shows including The News Quiz and The Unbelievable Truth. In 2007, she won a BAFTA as part of the cast of Channel 4 sketch show Blowout, while 2013 saw the debut …