Gaming Culture

Feature | Verses Mode: What can poetry do for video games?

We speak to the editors of two new books about what's to be gained from the meeting of two artforms.

Feature | An afternoon with the ultimate Star Trek simulator

Making it so.

Review | Atari: Game Over review

Myth understanding.

Feature | The Football Manager Documentary hints at the game's identity crisis

Passed glories.

Feature | The last arcade

From the archive: Salvaging London's lost video game amusements.

Review | Video Games: The Movie review

A star-studded crowdfunded documentary makes a poor case for gaming's cultural legitimacy.

Feature | Where literature and gaming collide

How games are mining literary sources of inspiration.

Feature | Every step you take: The story of Minesweeper

Meeting the original minelayers, and those who keep sweeping.

Feature | Taking arcades out of the underground

A report from the France's Stunfest, an open-armed event that embraces gaming's more hard-edged communities.

Feature | At the gates of Temple Studios: Where gaming and theatre collide

How Punchdrunk created a virtual world in the heart of central London.

Feature | Block rockin' beeps: What's behind gaming's greatest soundtracks

Play on, play on.

Feature | All is fair in love and Super Robot Wars

Dissecting the history of one of Japan's most enduring mecha series.

Feature | The story behind Nintendo's detective

How Level-5 got Luke and Layton together.

Review | Need for Speed film review

Can Hollywood do what EA couldn't, and spin a story out of street racing?

Review | Kaz: Pushing the Virtual Divide review

This Sony-funded vanity doc about Mr Gran Turismo is more than a puff piece - but only just.

Feature | Bullets and Toothpicks: Inside Hong Kong's gaming scene

Hong Kong nights.

Feature | Democratic gaming in the People's Republic of China

Seeing red.

Feature | Twitch-based: Exploring the Salty Bet phenomenon

Earning your salt.

Feature | You are the hero: A history of Fighting Fantasy

Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone on creating a page-turning legend.

Feature | The story of Yugoslavia's DIY computer revolution

Meet Galaksija, the wooden wonder computer.

Feature | Inside the toy box

Rediscovering the joy of play on a father-and-son visit to the home of the Skylanders.

Video game poetry collection heads to Kickstarter

"Producing books that engage with pop culture is a much more radical idea than it should be."

Interview | Hale to the Commander

Jennifer Hale speaks about her two decades voice-acting, fame and garnering respect in games.

Review | Street Fighter 2: The Movie review

Lights, camera, hadouken! The 1994 anime gets a Blu-ray release.

Feature | The legend of Nave, the Argentinian arcade cabinet

How two friends rediscovered the arcades in Buenos Aires.