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Ripperdocs, rockerboys, braindances, screamsheets. Highriders, hotdoggers, and hydro. Eddies and gonks, choombas and rollers. Edgerunners, jainas, and joytoys. Such is the slang that seethes…

There is an upside to the way that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War treats history: the clothes. If you’re going to chew the…

If you add up all the games that Matt Nava has worked on, Flower, Journey, Abzû, and now The Pathless, what do you have?…

“Exuberant laughter.” This is the phrase used in the subtitles to describe the sound made by Vex, the villain of Sackboy: A Big Adventure.…

And so we come back to the start. Demon’s Souls was first released on the PlayStation 3, in February, 2009, and only in Japan. Slowly,…

The star of Astro’s Playroom is Astro, a small white robot. His body is bulbous, and sealed with a slippery gloss. There is a blue…

Aside from the heroes of public relations, quality assurance, and publishing, The Falconeer bears few credits. There is music and sound design (Benedict Nichols), the…

Meet Eivor, an ice-blonde Viking with a spring-loaded blade wrapped around one wrist, a longboat, thronged with loyal brutes, and a pet raven, called…

Christmas in New York, and the streets are lined with slush. Miles Morales, a 16-year-old kid living in Harlem, is asked by his mother…

Fifteen years on from the first Yakuza, after five sequels, a prequel, two remakes, and five spin-offs, Toshiro Nagoshi is trying to go straight.…