An attempt to streamline the RPG leaves too little meat on its user-friendly bones.
We play PopCap's new dopamine-fuelled one-minute score challenge.
Jas Purewal considers the question for the modern age: if you buy a virtual hat, who owns it?
Find your future translating Japanese for Nintendo, designing games for core x group, or supporting the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Our February issue, featuring The Last Of Us, is out now.
True Crime: Hong Kong renamed, with publisher's London studio assisting United Front Games with development.
Four leading developers share their views on avant-garde game design.
The visceral horror shooter returns with a greater focus on action.
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Spry Fox’s inspirational match-three puzzler loses little in the transition to smartphones.
An attempt to streamline the RPG leaves too little meat on its user-friendly bones.
We play PopCap's new dopamine-fuelled one-minute score challenge.
The goldfish is back, but the voxels are gone.
Find your future translating Japanese for Nintendo, designing games for core x group, or supporting the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Jas Purewal considers the question for the modern age: if you buy a virtual hat, who owns it?
London's indie devs gather for Bit Of Alright, a chaotic celebration of the local scene.
GM Ben Cousins says recent spate of clones is "a blip" that will be eradicated as production values increase.
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Are overbearing tutorials and handholding destroying the magic? Plus playing fever dreams and shooting Skyrim.
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Brian Howe imagines what Infocom’s classic text-based adventure Zork might be like had it been released today.
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Chris Donlan plays an inspiringly fresh tactical game in which nuclear war meets Tetris.
Outcry over Where's My Water's 69p level bundle and Half-Life 3 highlight the problems of players loving games a little too much, says Alex Wiltshire.
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The Double Fine founder tells us why working with young children and hot lava results in fertile creative ground.
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Innovative game design is no longer enough to change the world, argues Tadhg Kelly.
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Why US copyright law can give you a chance to take cloners to court.
We examine Zynga CEO Mark Pincus' claims that Tiny Tower just builds on the foundations of its forebears.
Incumbent Howard Stringer, who recommended Hirai for the job, to become chairman of the board in June.
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