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    • March 4 2024
      Interview
      Game designer Lucas Pope on bringing aliens to the table in Mars After Midnight
      His new title, set in an extraterrestrial community centre, is a quirky affair made for a niche platform
      An image from a video game shows an owl-like bird with three eyes and a hooked beak
    • February 27 2024
      Review
      Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth game review — a remake that lavishly upgrades the original
      The much-loved role-playing adventure is radically expanded in this second instalment of the trilogy
      An image from a video game shows a character with spiky blond hair wearing armour and looking up
    • February 22 2024
      Review
      Pacific Drive review — a game of survival in a shadowy exclusion zone
      Frenzied motoring alternates with quiet moments of solace as you play a delivery clerk in a world where reality is out of kilter
      A screen shot of a car dashboard looking through the windscreen at a jungle where a bolt of lightning is just striking
    • February 19 2024
      Spending a lot of time on RuneScape
      Cash cow, or fantasy economics?
    • February 17 2024
      News in-depthGames industry
      Game over? Industry suffers slowdown after decades-long winning streak
      Sales growth in consoles and mobile apps hit as a darkening mood spreads across $200bn video games sector
      A person holds a Sony PlayStation games controller
    • February 14 2024
      Review
      Skull and Bones review — highs and lows of a storm-tossed pirate game
      Ubisoft’s new seafaring adventure finally arrives on the high seas
      An image from a video game shows wooden sailing ships pursuing each other at sea
    • February 12 2024
      Review
      Ultros game review — absorbing action-platformer with a green-fingered twist
      Patience pays off in a game that has you tending a cosmic garden while escaping from a space station
      An image from a video game shows a humanoid figure standing amid gigantic and luxuriant trees and vegetation
    • January 31 2024
      The video games industry still has a quality-to-price problem
      Too much work, too few sales
    • January 30 2024
      Review
      Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth review — open-world yakuza epic revels in postmodern absurdity
      Income inequality and a pet lobster are among the features of this enthralling, maddening game
      An image from a video game shows two men in eccentric garb adopting fighting poses, one wearing a gas cylinder on his back, amid a shower of light-streaks
    • January 25 2024
      Review
      Tekken 8 and how the fighting game is fighting back
      After a patch of relative irrelevance since its 1990s golden age, the combat video game genre is experiencing a renaissance
      A bare-chested male video game character with exaggerated musculature
    • January 23 2024
      Review
      Home Safety Hotline turns lo-fi premise into high anxiety — review
      A creeping sense of unease infects a domestic emergency help service in this horror game
      An image from a video game shows a picture of a mouse; off to the side are 1990s-style menus and a small picture of a man’s face with the words ‘current caller’ above it
    • January 18 2024
      Review
      Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review — platform franchise returns with a remix of past and present
      A time-stricken fortress proves a worthy and absorbing adversary in this largely successful comeback
      An image from a video game shows an ancient stone statue come to life, leaning over two human figures and in the process of shattering
    • January 16 2024
      Stephen Bush
      The UK’s political class needs to learn to love the economy it actually has
      The case of the gaming industry demonstrates a worrying dislike for the country’s successes
      Ewan White illustration of Rishi Sunak driving the car inside a game of Mario Kart
    • December 24 2023
      Games industry
      Puzzle game ‘Royal Match’ dethrones ‘Candy Crush’ from top of app store
      Istanbul-based developer Dream Games is on track to double revenue from its debut title despite a lacklustre year for mobile peers
      The ‘Royal Match’ video game
    • December 18 2023
      LexGames Workshop Group PLC
      Games Workshop: orc ward squad fears Amazon hammering Premium content
      If done well, bringing Warhammer to streaming screens would attract fans and boost sales
      Figures sit on display at a Warhammer store
    • December 15 2023
      The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2023
      Best of 2023 — FT readers choose their top films, TV shows and more
      From cinematic juggernauts ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ to ‘Succession’, Blur and a funky video game
      A man in a mid-brown 1950s suit and fedora stands holding a pipe in front of a desert landscape
    • December 15 2023
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      The games I’ll be playing this Christmas
      Certain games can teach us many valuable life skills
    • December 12 2023
      The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2023
      Best games of 2023 — Baldur, Zelda and a Shiba Inu
      Gargantuan role-playing games and an addictive fish-based simulator were standouts this year
      An image from a video game shows crowds of humanoid figures leaping on to and ascending and descending a system of towers high above the clouds
    • December 12 2023
      Arts
      The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2023
      A composite image of people including Lana Del Rey, a young Paul McCartney and Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon against a green-shading-red background
    • December 8 2023
      FT SeriesHouse & Home Christmas Special 2023
      The new generation of board games means you’ll never be bored again
      A recent cohort has come out of the shadows of geekdom to combine imaginative themes and beautiful design
      a young family on the floor playing a board game while mum crochets in a chair, 1962
    • December 7 2023
      Review
      Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game review — arresting open-world take on the sci-fi fantasia
      Immersive, earnest and goofy, the adventure finds common ground with James Cameron’s blockbusters
      A blue humanoid being rides a birdlike creature against a jungle backdrop
    • December 6 2023
      Can Grand Theft Auto VI match its $7.7bn predecessor?
      There’s a lot riding on the release but early signs look good, with stunning visuals, street racing and angry Karens
      A woman and a man stand with scarves over their mouths holding guns in a shop door
    • December 5 2023
      Review
      A Highland Song — Scottish folk music helps you take flight in charming game
      By moving with the rhythm, your character smoothly glides over beautifully painted landscapes
      Computer image of a teenage girl and a deer leaping up some crags against a loch and mountains on a moonlit night
    • December 1 2023
      John Gapper
      Nvidia played its way to the domination of AI
      Games were at the cutting edge of computing long before machine learning
      Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, speaks during a Hon Hai Precision Industry event in Taipei, Taiwan, in October
    • November 15 2023
      Review
      American Arcadia game review — Mario meets The Truman Show in gratifying platform adventure
      You play an office worker breaking out of the 9-to-5 grind in this richly enjoyable retro-futurist caper
      Digital image inside a neon-ish office
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