• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• December 12 2023
  Arts

  The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2023

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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

  
• 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