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Doom: The Dark Ages review – id Software gets medieval in a dramatic rewrite of the shooter’s rules

www.silverguide.site – This prequel takes a blunt force trauma approach to problem-solving and demon-killing, with a slower pace but more spectacular weaponry…
Doom: The Dark Ages review – id Software gets medieval in a dramatic rewrite of the shooter’s rules

GTA6 gets it on: can the notoriously cynical action series finally find time for romance?

www.silverguide.site – The newest trailer indicates Grand Theft Auto VI may have a soft centre, with its focus on outlaw lovers Lucia and Jason…
GTA6 gets it on: can the notoriously cynical action series finally find time for romance?

When video games journalism eats itself, we all lose out | Keith Stuart

www.silverguide.site – As industry giants trade beloved brands like commodities and AI offers easy content, independent games outlets are ​rising up. Here’s why they’re sorely needed…
When video games journalism eats itself, we all lose out | Keith Stuart

Drop Duchy review – a sprawling challenge disguised as a block-dropping puzzler

www.silverguide.site – Build a card deck of landscape features; organise your territory on a Tetris-like playfield; battle enemies and bosses to progress. It might sound complicated, but this is an ingenious experiment in game design by combination…
Drop Duchy review – a sprawling challenge disguised as a block-dropping puzzler

Grand Theft Auto VI delayed until May 2026

www.silverguide.site – Much anticipated title was due in autumn but fans will now have to wait another year after the announcement by Rockstar Games…
Grand Theft Auto VI delayed until May 2026

Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches

www.silverguide.site – Their tech may have been primitive, but for 80s schoolchildren of a certain kind they had a glamour to equal any modern iPhone…
Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches

I had a passionate crush on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Could it still thrill me 19 years later?

www.silverguide.site – When Bethesda surprise-released a remake last week, I revisited its world to see if the magic was still there…
I had a passionate crush on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Could it still thrill me 19 years later?

Skin Deep review – kitty rescue immersive-sim is slapstick fun in a cartoony playground

www.silverguide.site – This attempt to cosy-fi an immersive sim game is full of ‘zany’ gags as you rescue cats from a spaceship, but it gets a bit too saccharine…
Skin Deep review – kitty rescue immersive-sim is slapstick fun in a cartoony playground

Playing with words: why novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa

www.silverguide.site – While the novel remains a high-status cultural form, video game writing is still seen as a throwaway art – despite some of the biggest names in fiction being involved…
Playing with words: why novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa

Atomfall might have been an apocalyptic classic if it wasn’t for all the walking | Dominik Diamond

www.silverguide.site – The Lake District after the 1957 Windscale nuclear disaster is a great setting for a game – and gorgeously rendered. That doesn’t mean I want to endlessly keep traversing it…
Atomfall might have been an apocalyptic classic if it wasn’t for all the walking | Dominik Diamond

Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 review – reality-bending daftness

www.silverguide.site – What looks like a glitchy dinosaur-hunting puzzler turns out to be a meta game about game development that the player patches as they go…
Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 review – reality-bending daftness

Lost Records explores the joys and dangers of our cultural obsession with nostalgia

www.silverguide.site – Designers have long used nostalgia as a narrative device – but how does it reflect our own relationship with games?…
Lost Records explores the joys and dangers of our cultural obsession with nostalgia

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review – deeply satisfying homage to Japanese role-playing games

www.silverguide.site – Boasting a unique world, challenging combat and great writing, this RPG has a lot going for it, if only it didn’t revel in its own mysteriousness so much…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review – deeply satisfying homage to Japanese role-playing games

Piece of the action: entering the British Puzzle Championship

www.silverguide.site – Speed puzzling requires quick hands and a cool head, something Elizabeth McCafferty finds out by jumping straight in…
Piece of the action: entering the British Puzzle Championship

Now Play This 2025 review – the end of an era of experimental game design

www.silverguide.site – After 10 fun-packed years, it’s a wrap for the UK’s biggest celebration of indie, communal gameplay. But the folk games at the heart of this year’s edition have now filtered into the mainstream, from Taskmaster to The Traitors…
Now Play This 2025 review – the end of an era of experimental game design

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Tape Two) review – love, grief and self-recrimination as the girls reunite

www.silverguide.site – The concluding half of this two-parter may be lacking in interactive challenges, but is profound, sensitively structured and emotionally resonant…
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Tape Two) review – love, grief and self-recrimination as the girls reunite

The cost of gaming is soaring – but for many fans, a game is ‘worth’ more than its price tag

www.silverguide.site – As tariffs raise the price of consoles, is it time for gamers to reevaluate our relationship with new releases?…
The cost of gaming is soaring – but for many fans, a game is ‘worth’ more than its price tag

‘It’s allowed me to see through his eyes’: Super Mario, my dad and me

www.silverguide.site – When his mum found their old family NES covered in dust and rust, Thomas Hobbs cleaned it up, got it working and reconnected with his childhood and late father…
‘It’s allowed me to see through his eyes’: Super Mario, my dad and me

Plaything – how Black Mirror took on its scariest ever subject: a 1990s PC games magazine

www.silverguide.site – This story from Charlie Brooker’s dystopian series is set at PC Zone magazine and thrillingly close to true events at one dingy London office in the 90s…
Plaything – how Black Mirror took on its scariest ever subject: a 1990s PC games magazine
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