My FPS love affair really blew up way back on the PS2, and while the PS1 had a few cool ones, the PS2 was when FPS games really started to flourish on consoles, and that’s thanks to games like these ...

Name your favourite video game franchise that hasn’t had a game in ages. Go on. Knack is an interesting choice. But what if I told you there’s another way to play the kind of games that the big guys ...

Since around 2006, Nintendo has been on a hot streak. Two of its home consoles of the modern era (the Wii and the Switch) have gone on to become two of the best-selling consoles of all time, with the ...

Sifu is Sloclap’s latest martial arts epic, putting players in the shoes of a kung-fu master looking to avenge the wrongful death of their master at the hands of five assassins. With martial arts at ...

Maybe the biggest ever? A few indies were nominated for GOTY awards against much bigger games. A sort of but not really indie game even won the lot! And then you had indie games dominating Twitch and ...

2001: the year of iPods, Wikipedia, and leaving the keys upon the table. It was also the best year in gaming history. Sega went out with a bang, Microsoft entered with a ring, Nintendo got purple and ...

While chess and its predecessors may be classified as the progenitors of simulation wargaming, modern wargame design principles began to solidify only after the introduction of Kriegsspiel in the 19th ...

Aliens has been a multimedia franchise since the first movie released in 1979, from sequels to books, comics, long rumoured cartoons and, of course, video games. Despite seemingly being the perfect ...

The Yakuza series from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and Sega is an unabashed celebration of Japanese culture. The neon-lit district of Kamurocho is digital tourism at its finest, highlighting the nightlife, ...

The skin-suited robot with the world’s most incomprehensible Austrian accent, The Terminator has had somewhat of a tumultuous time at the box office over the past few years. Actually, make that two ...

If this is your first dip into our countdown of the 100 best books of the decade, I highly recommend taking a peek at our other picks too. We’ve got the best of Young Adult, non-fiction, ...

In 2005, Santa Monica Studios unleashed God of War for the PlayStation 2, a brutal hack-and-slash game series that has dominated PlayStation platforms in the years since. The early entries in the ...