Emad Ahmed
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Emad Ahmed is a freelance writer covering games (among other things) and what they say about our world. His desk usually has one stack of unplayed games and another of unread books.
Featured articles
FeatureSomeone should make a game about: What's in your Bag?
Backpack me up on this.
Feature2020's best games saw adventures go wrong
Running through Emad's games of the year.
Football Manager 2021 free agents and bargains: the best cheap players and transfers in FM21
The best low-cost and freebie players you can pick in Football Manager's first transfer window.
Football Manager 2021 wonderkids: the best, highest potential players in FM21 listed
A list of the fifty highest potential wonderkids in Football Manager 2021
FeatureKentucky Route Zero's magical realism hides the raw economic realities of abandoned towns
There are no two ways about it.
FeatureThe Double-A Team: Area 51 was one of the finest shooters of the PS2 generation
The truth is right here.
RecommendedTell Me Why review - memory and identity converge in another taut young adult adventure
Ain't nothin' but a heartache.
FeatureDriving towards new memories in Forza
Just a ride.
Football Manager 2020 wonderkids: the best, highest potential players in FM20 listed
A list of the fifty highest potential wonderkids in Football Manager 2020
Football Manager 2020 free agents and bargains: the best cheap players and transfers in FM20
The best low-cost and freebie players you can pick in Football Manager's first transfer window.
FeatureHow games can lend us their sense of movement
Fast and slow.
FeatureToca Mystery House is...The Witness for kids?
A surprise around every corner.
FeatureThe weird ways developers approach hand-holding in video games
From Ico to Fable 3.
FeatureIn praise of cel-shading
Toonstruck.
FeatureThe mysterious appeal of Dandara
Once in a beautiful horizon.
Football Manager 2019 wonderkids list - the best, highest potential young players in FM19
A list of the fifty highest potential wonderkids in Football Manager 2019.
Football Manager 2019 free transfers and bargains list - the best cheap players in FM19
Our picks for the best, cheapest players you can pick up in FM19's first window transfer market.
FeatureHow survival horror reinvented itself
Always watching your back.
FeatureLovely Planet and the joy of frustration
Things are never quite what they seem.
FeaturePassing on the gift of games
And keeping tears at bay.
FeatureSega Mega Drive Classics makes me pine for a blue sky future
The greatest hits are great, but what about something new?
FeatureLonely worlds: gaining insight when surrounded by nothing
Always half empty and half full.
FeatureWhen Sonic and Mario dominated children's television
“If you make seven million kids laugh, that must count towards something.”
FeatureDon't gush: why the vision of Mirror's Edge Catalyst makes it a modern great
Feminism and futurism are at one.