It's not 'X', it's 'Cross' – the PlayStation joypad revelation that's caused an outrage
Sony has confirmed ‘X’ button on Dualshock controller should be called ‘Cross’ and players are freaking out
August 2018
Foul play: tackling toxicity and abuse in online video games
Jay Castello
Too many gamers have come to expect and accept offensive behaviour online but, as recent tweaks to some games demonstrate, players’ behaviour can be modified
August 2017
No Man's Sky: can an update save this beautiful, frustrating game?
Atlas Rises introduces a big new story and tons of fresh details – but is it enough to encourage people back into this procedurally generated world?
July 2017
Server crashes, 40GB patches and DLC: gaming's biggest irritations explained
Video game consumers often deride industry changes as ‘money-grubbing’ actions – but is that fair? We spoke to developers and publishers to find out
June 2017
Let's face it, it's time to give up on those Portal and Half-Life sequels
Keith Stuart
Before the E3 game conference each year, the Half-Life 3 rumour mill cranks into gear, only to be destroyed by the crowbar of history. Let’s just let sleeping headcrabs lie
May 2017
Why is motherhood so poorly portrayed in video games?
Kate Gray
Kicking off our series of features about motherhood and gaming, Kate Gray looks at why the maternal role is so badly represented in the medium
April 2017
Xbox chief: we need to create a Netflix of video games
In a frank discussion about the modern games industry, Phil Spencer discusses the potential of episodic games and pros and cons of downloadable content
'As addictive as gardening': how dangerous is video gaming?
Snooker player Neil Robertson blamed a recent drop in form on video game addiction. But was he right to? We speak to the researchers trying to find out
The 17 worst things about video games
From unskippable cut scenes to escort missions, here are the video game features we’d like to see banished to digital purgatory
March 2017
The video game industry has a diversity problem – but it can be fixed
Frog Fractions: inside the mind behind the world's strangest video game
January 2017
As a Muslim video-game developer, I no longer feel the US is open for business
Rami Ismail
My mother used to only check on me when I visited unstable countries for work. Now she does it when I am in Trump’s US
December 2016
What were the sexiest video game moments of 2016?
From Nathan Drake to the Freudian imagery of No Man’s Sky, writers Holly Nielsen and Kate Gray ponder the raunchiest gaming pleasures of the year
October 2016
Has a Black Mirror episode predicted the future of video games?
The best – and very worst – sex scenes in video game history
September 2016
Xbox execs surprised by Sony's decision to abandon 4K Blu-ray support with PS4
Microsoft’s head of Xbox planning says 4K is a key part of gaming’s future, and insists customers will understand appeal of Project Scorpio when they see it
How walking sims became as important as the first-person shooter
Keith Stuart
Games like Dear Esther take the environmental lessons of shooters and divert the focus from action to introversion
The Last Guardian: hotly anticipated PlayStation 4 title delayed again
Sony’s (very) long awaited adventure title will now arrive in December, not October – seven years after its original announcement
May 2016
Lionhead: the rise and fall of a British video game legend
One of the UK’s most creative studios was shut by Microsoft in April, we talk to co-founder Peter Molyneux and his staff about the end of an era
April 2016
Have hackers and cheats ruined The Division on PC?
Ubisoft’s New York-based strategy shooter is the company’s most successful ever release – but players say the experience is being ruined by cheats
