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PlayStation 5 Pro: is Sony’s console upgrade worth £700? theguardian.com/games/2024/n…

PlayStation 5 Pro: is Sony’s console upgrade worth £700?

Four years after the PS5’s release, Sony has now put out a more powerful version. But the asking price is steep

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The Sega Saturn at 30: a pioneering games console ripe for rediscovery theguardian.com/games/2024/n…

The Sega Saturn at 30: a pioneering games console ripe for rediscovery

A commercial failure by comparison with its rival the PlayStation, the Saturn nevertheless boasted stylish, genre-defining titles that are still played and beloved by retro games enthusiasts today

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Concord collapses, Firewalk falls – it’s a brutal year for game development theguardian.com/games/2024/o…

Concord collapses, Firewalk falls – it’s a brutal year for game development

Sony is shutting down Firewalk, the studio behind its live-service flop, Concord. It’s the biggest, most expensive casualty of an increasingly crowded hero shooter market – but it won’t be the last

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Tim Walz and AOC play football video game on Twitch in appeal to young men theguardian.com/us-news/2024…

Tim Walz and AOC play football video game on Twitch in appeal to young men

Pair stream themselves playing Madden on Twitch in effort to secure votes just nine days before election

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If Civilization is falling apart, I might as well control it myself | Dominik Diamond theguardian.com/games/2024/o…

If Civilization is falling apart, I might as well control it myself | Dominik Diamond

The invitation to EXplore, EXpand, EXploit and EXterminate that comes with the game’s unfortunately spelled sixth iteration is hard to resist, harder still to play

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Pushing Buttons: Is there even any point in making more powerful games consoles? theguardian.com/games/2024/o…

Pushing Buttons: Is there even any point in making more powerful games consoles?

In this week’s newsletter: With players caring less about advanced graphics and high-spec systems, the industry battleground is shifting away from hardware

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Disco Elysium ‘spiritual successor’ in development at new video game studio theguardian.com/games/2024/o…

Disco Elysium ‘spiritual successor’ in development at new video game studio

A sequel to the Bafta-winning 2019 RPG was recently cancelled by developer ZU/AM. Now, some of its original team have set up a new studio to make a successor

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Bold, bizarre, brilliant – Metaphor: Refantazio is everything I adore about Japanese RPGs theguardian.com/games/2024/o…

Bold, bizarre, brilliant – Metaphor: Refantazio is everything I adore about Japanese RPGs

In this week’s newsletter: JRPGs can be an acquired taste – but fortunately it’s one I can’t get enough of. Plus, a bumper crop of games for horror fans

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Satisfactory, the factory-building game so compelling it has invaded my dreams theguardian.com/games/2024/o…

Satisfactory, the factory-building game so compelling it has invaded my dreams | Patrick Lum

An addictive example of a burgeoning genre, its elaborate widgets and logistics demand long shifts that have re-engineered my unconscious mind

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‘We were only slightly influenced by the Cantina music’: the underworld sounds of Star Wars Outlaws theguardian.com/culture/2024…

‘We were only slightly influenced by the Cantina music’: the underworld sounds of Star Wars Outlaws

Cody Matthew Johnson explains how he has scoured every sonic corner, from spider monkeys’ chatter to gamelan, to write tunes a space travelling street thief would hear

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Pushing Buttons: At Tokyo Game Show, I saw the Japanese games scene I grew up with is still live and kicking theguardian.com/games/2024/o…

Pushing Buttons: At Tokyo Game Show, I saw the Japanese games scene I grew up with is still live...

In this week’s newsletter: Konami, cute RPGs, weird but wonderful indie games – everything I saw at Japan’s biggest gaming convention

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Heaven 17 v Rockstar: are games being fair to music artists? theguardian.com/games/2024/s…

Heaven 17 v Rockstar: are games being fair to music artists?

The band’s Martyn Ware has hit out at the fee offered for Temptation in the Grand Theft Auto franchise. But as music becomes ever more central to gaming, the sums get complicated

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Pushing Buttons: UFO 50 is an anthology of pure nostalgia – and the games are good, too theguardian.com/games/2024/s…

Pushing Buttons: UFO 50 is an anthology of pure nostalgia – and the games are good, too

In this week’s newsletter: From platformers to side-scrolling space adventures and top-down racers, every experience from your gaming youth is recreated with passion and skill

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: a video game that will whip film fans into a frenzy theguardian.com/games/2024/s…

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: a video game that will whip film fans into a frenzy

MachineGames’ long-awaited iteration of the George Lucas and Steven Spielberg franchise looks set to deliver the most authentic Indy adventure yet. Hold on to your hats for an unforgettable ride

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Sony’s big-budget hero shooter Concord failed spectacularly – here’s where it went wrong theguardian.com/games/articl…

Sony’s big-budget hero shooter Concord failed spectacularly – here’s where it went wrong

The live-service shooter is just the latest high-profile multiplayer flop – and points to an existential problem in game development

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Sony reveals £700 PlayStation 5 Pro console theguardian.com/games/articl…

Sony reveals £700 PlayStation 5 Pro console

Extra £300 on a Digital Edition PS5 buys an upgraded graphics processing unit and an 8K mode on enhanced games

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Does the Minecraft movie really look that bad? Only a 10-year-old can tell us theguardian.com/games/articl…

Does the Minecraft movie really look that bad? Only a 10-year-old can tell us

Reactions to the trailer have ranged from ‘awful’ to ‘horrendous’. But what does its target audience think?

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Destiny at 10: the forever game that is also a forever conversation theguardian.com/games/articl…

Destiny at 10: the forever game that is also a forever conversation

As Bungie’s storied online shooter completes its first decade, we look back on an odd game that has always been worth talking about – and ask why it’s like Marks & Spencer

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What the Car? A racing game with a ‘complete disregard for actual vehicles’ theguardian.com/games/articl…

What the Car? A racing game with a ‘complete disregard for actual vehicles’

If you are expecting an authentic driving experience along the lines of Forza or Gran Turismo, think again. Instead, this new absurdist adventure features a car with legs

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