- Seed funding: Melbourne startup raises $9m for mental wellness game based on tending houseplantsFunding for Kinder World mobile app said to be largest venture capital seed investment for game studio founded by women in Australia
- ‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily DickinsonThe 80s-style shooter EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of a game featured in Gabrielle Zevin’s forthcoming novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- 4 out of 5 stars.Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes review – wild battles liven up a familiar anime franchise
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes review – wild battles liven up a familiar anime franchise
4 out of 5 stars.The combination of frenetic Dynasty Warriors-style combat with Fire Emblem’s lovable cast of characters makes this an engaging trip back to the Officers Academy - 4 out of 5 stars.Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest review – lovable gamers on mission to break recordUtterly charming Danish documentary follows a group of complicated geeks as one of their number sets out to beat all comers on a game caled Gyruss
- Pushing Buttons: five new games that look like nothing you’ve seen beforeIn this week’s newsletter: amid endless nostalgia trips, here are a few inventive offerings to inspire you. Plus, a shout-at-the-TV horror game for groups
Opinion
- 3 out of 5 stars.Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong review – a thriller to get your teeth intoPC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One/Series X/S, PlayStation 4/5; Big Bad Wolf
Solve a string of murders as an undead psychopath in this chatter-heavy role-playing game – while feeding on humans, obviously - 3 out of 5 stars.Gibbon: Beyond the Trees review – short, simple and lovely to playA noble environmental message provides the basis for this delightfully uncomplicated adventure, but elements of performance are amiss
- 3 out of 5 stars.Trek to Yomi review – a tropey but reverent tribute to Japanese cinemaThis grainy, gore-soaked katana caper slowly morphs into a compelling meditation on vengeance
- 4 out of 5 stars.Trolley Problem, Inc review – a thrill ride into the world of ethical dilemmasPresenting a series of impossible choices, this darkly comedic game stretches the player’s moral scaffolding to its limits
- 4 out of 5 stars.Citizen Sleeper review – an evocative cyberpunk survival simA decaying cyborg with a human mind struggles to survive aboard a space station in a superbly written, if not exactly original, slice of scuzzy sci-fi
- 4 out of 5 stars.Nintendo Switch Sports review – the return of slapstick funIt’s been a while since a video game got us up and moving like this, and happily it’s as entertaining as ever
What to play
- The 10 best games on PlayStation 5From the very first game on the console to a lonely space-rodent and a rejuvenated Spider-Man, these are our best picks for the PS5
- The 10 best games on Xbox Series S/XFrom Forza Horizon 5’s pure driving thrills to the brain-scrambling fun of Pyschonauts 2 and Resident Evil Village’s massive vampires, here are the Xbox Series S/X must-haves
- The 50 best video games of the 21st centuryWant to build worlds, become a crime kingpin, get lost in space, or enter the afterlife? Then our countdown of the 50 best games of the era has something for you
You may have missed
- Paper view: the return of video game magazinesPrint media were once the lifeblood of the gaming community, and now a new generation of lovingly assembled periodicals are bringing the scene back to life
- ‘A giant grey cube floating above the landscape’: exploring the forbidden reaches of Red Dead Redemption 2A new documentary chronicles the adventures of the Grannies, a group of friends who went looking for the glitchy event horizon of Rockstar’s virtual-western epic
- ‘I just wanted to play Duck Hunt with my kids’: the man on a mission to bring back the light gunNo one believed he could make a light gun that worked on modern TVs. But Andrew Sinden persevered with his dream to revive a dying game genre
- Love Big Jet TV? Meet the flight simulator streamersFeed your newfound interest in aviation commentary with these flight-sim streamers, from former newscasters to retired pilots
Most viewed
- F1 22 review – a stunning racing game sullied by money-grubbing
- Neon White review – an exhilarating speedrun through a celestial dreamscape
- Pushing Buttons: five new games that look like nothing you’ve seen before
- The 25 greatest video game consoles – ranked!
- The best games of 2022 so far
- The 50 best video games of the 21st century
- The 25 hardest video games of all time
- The 10 best games on PlayStation 5
- What is Wordle? The new viral word game delighting the internet
- The 15 greatest video games of the 1990s – ranked!
F1 22 review – a stunning racing game sullied by money-grubbing
3 out of 5 stars.