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  • Jessica Curry

    ‘Trauma is messy, but music will come of it’: Jessica Curry on her new album, Shielding Songs

    The award-winning composer of soundtracks to video games including Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is composing again for the first time since a traumatic pandemic
  • Death Stranding 2

    Death Stranding 2: On the Beach review – a hypnotising art-house game with an A-list cast

  • Hideo Kojima at the Sydney film festival, June 2025

    ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

  • Abbey Road Studios will play host to a special one-off concert featuring music from the forthcoming videogame FINAL FANTASY® XV on Wednesday 7 th September. The one-hour concert will be broadcast from Abbey Road’s iconic Studio One, and will feature live renditions of a selection of songs from the FINAL FANTASY XV soundtrack performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with a special appearance from world-renowned composer, Yoko Shimomura.

    From Street Fighter to Final Fantasy: Yoko Shimomura, the composer who put the classical in gaming’s classics

  • Nintendo Switch 2.

    Beyond Mario Kart World: what else is worth playing on Nintendo Switch 2?

  • Ian Proulx’s appearance at the 2025 Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles.

    The Maga-flavoured faux pas that shook the games industry

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  • Pragmata

    Pragmata, the quirky science-fiction game that’s back from the dead

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Opinion

  • Candy Crush Soda Saga game

    Help me, I have been Candy Crushed

    Dominik Diamond
  • Keith Stuart

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

    Keith Stuart
  • Atomfall video game - vllage soldier

    Atomfall might have been an apocalyptic classic if it weren’t for all the walking

    Dominik Diamond
  • an 8 bit graphic of two Turtles characters

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the hardest game I ever played – so why am I back?

    Dominik Diamond

Reviews

  • Mario Kart World on Nintendo Switch 2

    Mario Kart World review – a riotous road trip for every player

  • Nintendo Switch 2 announcement – 2nd April 2025, press, publicity image

    Nintendo Switch 2 review – more than good enough

  • Elden Ring Nightreign

    Elden Ring Nightreign review – FromSoftware brings multiplayer mayhem to the Lands Between

  • F1 25 game

    F1 25 review – nailed-on realism, even when you drive the wrong way round

What to play

  • Classic karting, the open-world version … Super Mario character in Japan earlier this week.

    The Nintendo Switch 2 is out – here’s everything you need to know

  • The Nintendo Switch.

    The 15 best games to play on the Nintendo Switch in 2025

  • The Last of Us.

    The 15 best PlayStation 5 games to play in 2025

  • Hi-Fi Rush.

    The 15 best Xbox Series S/X games to play in 2025

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