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  • Forza Horizon 6 screenshot

    How Forza Horizon took on Japan with deep research – and 360-degree cameras

  • A website showing cartoon avatars of politicians above a search bar and grid of top politicians with names and parties.

    Gotta catch an MP! Players ‘debate’ UK politicians in Pokémon-style game

  • A still from the video game Star Fox. Its four anthropomorphic heroes (from left to right: a falcon, a toad, a hare and a fox) walk towards the camera, off a runway and into the large opening of a space craft, wearing white space jackets. There are mountains in the distance.

    Star Fox 64, a game I loved in my childhood, is returning – but I have mixed feelings

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  • Across Mixtape’s four-hour runtime, you ‘skateboard, mash tongues together during a kiss, TP a house, ride a dinosaur, and learn to fly’.

    From Smashing Pumpkins to Ferris Bueller: new Australian indie video game Mixtape is a blast of nostalgia

  • A virtual surgeon about to perform a heart operation in the comedy game, Surgeon Simulator

    ‘Nurse, the joypad!’: the eight greatest medical video games

  • Two animated characters with shocked expressions push another in a shopping trolley.

    Mixtape review – tongues, trolleys and classic 90s tracks celebrate teenage misadventure

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Opinion

  • Title screen for Daley Thompson's Super Test video game showing various Olympic events

    double quotation markI touched a ZX Spectrum for the first time in decades – and I liked it

    Dominik Diamond
  • Imogen West-Knights

    double quotation markWhat my zen week with a virtual power-washer taught me about gaming – and life

    Imogen West-Knights
  • Keza MacDonald

    double quotation markIncluding online games in social media bans is unworkable, unnecessary and would harm young people

    Keza MacDonald
  • Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator game, screenshot

    double quotation markStop the world, I want to get off and run a video rental store in the 1990s

    Dominik Diamond
  • A video call screen split into four squares showing four people in different rooms looking at their cameras from the film LifeHack

    LifeHack review – old-school heist movie updated for the meme age

  • Forbidden Solitaire game

    Forbidden Solitaire review – cards flip into delirious trip back to 90s horror

  • Space warrior in fancy armour kneeling on an alien planet

    Saros review – you’ll strafe until your thumbs hurt in this primal alien shooter

  • Naru Asanuma and Kazunari Ninomiya in Exit 8. A boy and a man stare anxiously down a featureless white-tiled corridor

    Exit 8 review – Escher-esque subway station corridor leads to disquieting psychological mystery

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