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When Nintendo announced its new music app last week, I excitedly downloaded it onto my phone. I thought I would finally be able to listen to the...
There’s been a slight sense of anticlimax after the release of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom . It’s a very good game, of course, but...
A tension inherent in massively multiplayer role-playing games like World of Warcraft is that a lot of the biggest narrative moments, the coolest...
The publisher of Manor Lords , the hit medieval city-building game made by solo developer Slavic Magic, has hit out at critics of the game’s gentle...
This essay on The Bikeriders was originally written for the film’s European premiere at the 2023 BFI London Film Festival. It has been updated...
The coolest sword I ever obtained in a video game is the Phantom Blade in World of Warcraft . In fact, it’s so cool to me that I never parted with...
Jesse Plemons is a brilliant actor. He’s also one of our most memeable stars. It’s not that he’s super expressive — quite the opposite, in...
A few hours into my time with Dragon’s Dogma 2 , I was struck by a critical question that appeared simple, but was unusually difficult to answer....
If you just started Dragon’s Dogma 2, it might have come as a shock that this sprawling open-world, role-playing epic is missing one common feature:...
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movies can seem like a rebuke to Hollywood’s quip era. They are as far as you can get from the Marvel rule that no...
This week sees the release of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth as a PlayStation 5 exclusive. It’s a lavish but bloated release that expands the middle...
Matthew Vaughn, the mastermind of a string of sadistically inventive action movies including Kick-Ass and the Kingsman series, wants to keep things a...
Sofia Coppola is an immaculate stylist, tastemaker, and music fan whose movies are known for their impeccably curated soundtracks. She’s responsible...
I caught up with Pikmin 4 over the holidays — Nintendo had a good 2023, didn’t it? — and it’s been a joy to slip back into the unique...
There were few moments as iconic, during the birth phase of 3D gaming, as the first time Link stepped onto Hyrule Field in The Legend of Zelda:...