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Killer obsession: Ranking the Dead by Daylight killers by dateability

Killer obsession: Ranking the Dead by Daylight killers by dateability

Spending Valentine’s Day alone? Why not let yourself be wooed by Behaviour Interactive’s most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes, splattered affectingly in the blood of their victims?
A timeline of the Unity controversy

A timeline of the Unity controversy

A look into the events that led up to CEO John Riccitiello’s resignation from his role from Unity Technologies
There’s plenty wrong with me: The Arkham saga retrospective

There’s plenty wrong with me: The Arkham saga retrospective

A love letter to Rocksteady and the Batman games they made
Gotham Knights: The Freebird Rule

Gotham Knights: The Freebird Rule

The newest instalment in the archive of Batman video games fails to top the standard set by the Arkham Saga
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II: The paradox of keeping games free of politics

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II: The paradox of keeping games free of politics

In the wake of the newest Call of Duty game, the intentions of the ‘keep politics out of video games’ crowd remain as clear as ever
Review: The Playstation Dreamworld ​by Alfie Bown

Review: The Playstation Dreamworld ​by Alfie Bown

Isaac Lucia reviews Alfie Bown’s Playstation Dreamworld using Lacanian psychoanalytical comparisons to evaluate existing game criticism
Are today’s video games lacking in ‘soul’?

Are today’s video games lacking in ‘soul’?

Danny Jones reflects on the recent comments of Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet regarding the current state of the industry

The dawn of the NES

In Japan, a small consumer electronics company called Nintendo was having lots of success with their console the Famicom. Wanting to garner international success, they locked their sights on the USA

Crash, Bang, Wallop

Continuing my kick on the 1980s that started last week with the British home computer, and how influential it was in not only British video games, but the computing industry, I’d like to cross the pond and talk about North America’s adventures with video games

If on a Winter’s Night a Gamer

Matthew Cole pretentiously channels Italo Calvino in an attempt to express the reasons why we play games.

Manchester music students make games

Music students have been writing videogames as part of a 20 credit module

Borderlands 2 – Review

Alasdair Preston takes a look at Borderlands 2.

The Multimedia Revolution

All fun and games