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Game culture

August 2024

  • Deadpool inside a graphical egg design, on a red background

    Un oeuf is enough: have we had our fill of movie Easter eggs?

    They were once a sweet treat for audiences, but Deadpool & Wolverine proves that gorging on cameos, callbacks and end-credit stingers can leave you gagging

June 2024

  • Teenage,Boy,In,A,Bedroom,Listening,To,Music,Through,His<br>Teenage boy in a bedroom listening to music through his smartphone; Shutterstock ID 1090254734; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

    Ask Philippa
    My grownup son is gaming all day and lives on takeaways

    You may be too much in the parent role, forcing him into the child role

May 2024

  • Benson (L) and Yun Jin (R) of The Chairs on stage at a festival holding guitars and playing

    Texan creativity festival SXSW to launch London edition in Shoreditch

  • Some teenagers were angry adults dodged uncomfortable conversations about sex.

    From doomscrolling to sex: being a boy in 2024

January 2024

  • A group of young men sitting at tables in a school hall with assorted computers on the desks and clothes and sleeping bags on the floor

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘I dreamed of blocky pixels’: the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures

    Back in the early 2000s, multiplayer gaming meant lugging huge PCs to friends’ houses or school halls and connecting them with wires to have Lan parties. Early adopters remember that heady time

December 2023

  • Illustration of the world map with identifying marks from each country - such as road signs, telegraph poles, trees

    2023 Christmas puzzles special
    If you were given a Google Street View image of anywhere on Earth, could you identify the location?

    The competitors at the GeoGuessr World Cup can do just that. The clues are in brick houses, distinctive trousers and unusual telegraph poles

August 2023

  • A woman at gamescom 2022 in Cologne

    ‘Injection of energy’: gamescom aims high despite dwindling in-person scene

  • Made in Shanghai … Genshin Impact.

    Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect

    Lu-Hai Liang

July 2023

  • Young boy playing games on a computer at home

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: Video game addiction is real – but parents shouldn’t worry too much

    Gaming is a huge force for good, but developers using gambling industry tactics are causing nothing but harm

May 2023

  • Link exploring Hyrule in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: Why I don’t worry about ‘completing’ games

  • The survey into online gaming discovered that 49% of British female gamers experienced harassment when playing online, with that figure rising to 75% among those aged 18-24

    Half of British female gamers experience abuse when playing online

April 2023

  • A computer user's hands at work on a back-lit keyboard and mouse

    Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine

    Analysis suggests top-secret documents were first shared on closed gamer chatrooms hosted by Discord

March 2023

  • Laurence Phillips (right) from Poncle Studio accepts the game design award for Vampire Survivors at the 2023 Bafta Games Awards, held at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 30 March.

    Bafta Games Awards: God of War wins six but Vampire Survivors is best game

    The were gasps in the crowd as a cult indie shooter beat the blockbusters to the key award of the night

November 2022

  • Evercade VS console.

    The best retro video game consoles for 2022

    Take a trip down memory lane with six superb retro games consoles you can get your hands on without breaking the bank

October 2022

  • ‘Its discordant piano stab is what I most readily recall’ … The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: the ghostly echo of games past sustains me

    Climbing my first wall in Tomb Raider, playing Sonic the Hedgehog with my dad … snatches of games I’ve played over the years deliver a world unclouded by nagging doubts

September 2022

  • ‘I found it strange how little fiction has treated game playing and game making in a serious way’ … Gabrielle Zevin.

    ‘Video games open us to the whole spectrum of human emotions’: novelist Gabrielle Zevin on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • South Korean capital Seoul at night

    K-everything: the rise and rise of Korean culture

August 2022

  • From 8-Bit to Infinity, a Proms concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames at the Albert Hall on Monday.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: Pokémon goes to the Proms – is gaming respectable now?

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra brought The Legend of Zelda and other game sounds alive at the Albert Hall – and from fashion to fiction, it’s only the latest example of its ascendance to high culture
  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Jim Carrey in "Sonic the Hedgehog 2." (Paramount Pictures via AP)

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best video game film adaptations

    Sonic the Hedgehog 2, like Super Mario Bros, assorted Lara Crofts and all things Resident Evil, seeks the sweet spot between knowing silliness and serious action
  • Technical marvel … Animal Well, one of the many new games on the horizon.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: the fast, furious world of games releases

    Games announcements have become relentless. How’s a player to keep up? Start with our summer previews
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