The latest in Features (page 89)
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The essential festive values, as taught by video games
It’s almost upon us. But before you find yourself swelling with booze and Terry’s Chocolate Orange, warm yourself with the thought that you’ve quietly…
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Soulja Boy might be starting a musical artist console trend
The news arrived this week, like a zesty blast of tangy 2007, that Soulja Boy – that stalwart curator of culture – was cranking…
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The influence of Doom after 25 years
Doom makes me feel lonely. For all the demons lurking on the moons of mars, it’s not fear or anger that grips me; it’s…
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Super Meat Boy Forever Interview: ‘Life Happened’ to Tommy Refenes
The most enduring image of Tommy Refenes is of him sat dressed in a cap and hoodie, sizzling in the sodium light of a…
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Game Box Art Critique December: Just Cause 4, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, PUBG (PS4)
Each Month, we invite élite art critic Braithwaite Merriweather to appraise the box art of the latest game releases. In between his time spent…
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How can Alien: Blackout improve on Alien: Isolation?
In 2014, Creative Assembly answered a 35-year-old distress beacon. Since the release of Alien, in 1979, no one had managed to make a game…
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Darksiders III is like a Saturday morning cartoon
To play Darksiders III in 2018 is to harbour a fugitive. It seems to have arrived through a portal from 2010, claimed by the…
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Gordon Freeman remains Half-Life’s unsolved mystery
At the heart of Half-Life, there is a battle of credentials. Who’s more mysterious? There’s the G-Man, who’s cut from the same pop-culture cloth…
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Red Dead Redemption 2 dances to Ocarina of Time’s 20-year-old tune
On this day, 20 years ago, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released in Japan. Its arrival is the closest players have…
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Spyro Reignited Trilogy has inflamed the obsessive collector in me
It’s a shame that Spyro, being a dragon, is covered in sleek scales. One of the joys of the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy…
