It may have looked like something you’d see a bank teller use, but it withstood heavy battering. And it ran the coolest games
January 2024
The 15 greatest Sega arcade games – ranked
From the 80s driving experience of Outrun and After Burner’s dogfighting F-14 to Golden Axe’s high fantasy hack-’em-up – here’s what you wished was in your local arcade
October 2023
Pushing Buttons newsletter
Pushing Buttons: It’s been a fantastic year for games – unless you’re someone who makes them
In this week’s newsletter: The pressures of time, money, expectations and technology are creating a volatile development environment
September 2023
14 upcoming video games you probably haven’t heard of
Sick of space, shooting and samey franchises? Find something to grab you in our critics’ selection of the strangest and most interesting forthcoming video games
July 2023
Pushing Buttons newsletter
Pushing Buttons: Why it’s getting harder to play your old favourite games
In this week’s newsletter: A new report says 87% of games released before 2010 are no longer commercially available – and it’s a huge loss for the art form
June 2023
Pushing Buttons newsletter
Pushing Buttons: Why Sonic and Mario duelling it out in 2D again will be a spectacle
Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator may face jail over alleged insider trading
May 2023
The hottest toy in the Argos catalogue! Tabletop arcade games are back
These tiny 1980s home arcade machines are returning to a table near you – updated, upgraded and packed with classic video games
February 2023
Found in translation: how Like a Dragon brings Japan to the rest of the world
The game series formerly known as Yakuza has been an inroad to modern Japan for its legions of overseas fans. Now, it hopes to do the same for Japanese history
January 2023
Playtime’s over: how 2023 could reshape video games
Keith Stuart
A perfect storm of wider cultural and economic forces have been pulling the video games industry apart. Is this the year it remakes itself?
November 2022
The best retro video game consoles for 2022
Sonic Frontiers review – wild, weird and a bit broken
