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.
Gaming Culture
Review
Video Games: The Movie review
A star-studded crowdfunded documentary makes a poor case for gaming's cultural legitimacy.
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
All is fair in love and Super Robot Wars
Dissecting the history of one of Japan's most enduring mecha series.
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
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.
News
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.