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Role playing games

June 2024

  • Actor Ben Starr as Final Fantasy XV's Clive Rosfield

    ‘Suddenly I can play anybody’: what it’s like to act in a video game

  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

    ‘I have always felt the world was a harsh place’: Elden Ring’s Hidetaka Miyazaki on why he may never stop making games

  • Phoenix Springs

    14 unusual video games to discover in 2024

  • From left to right; Dragon's Dogma 2 character, Cloud from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

    Best culture of 2024 so far
    The best video games of 2024 so far

May 2024

  • Grand Theft Auto V's Michael takes a hit from his son's bong

    Canada legalizes it
    I tried playing video games stoned for the first time in my 50s – and I have some thoughts

    Dominik Diamond
  • A scene from Minecraft

    ‘A place that made sense’: Minecraft is 15 years old and still changing lives

  • A character running across a bridge in a Japanese-style city-scape

    Simon Parkin on games
    Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes review – rip-roaring adventure from the late Yoshitaka Murayama

  • Dungeons and Dragons dice owned and used by Luke Breen of Dungeon Master for Hire in Melbourne.

    Stop trying to turn Dungeons & Dragons into a Marvel-esque cash cow – it won’t work

    Ed Power

April 2024

  • Searching for the meaning of life … Harold Halibut.

    As if Wes Anderson ran amok at Aardman: Harold Halibut, the visually stunning puppet adventure game

    Fourteen years in the making, this character-driven sci-fi tale is a wonder of technology and imagination so texturally convincing you’ll want to touch it
  • Adventurers in a medieval-themed kingdom … The first edition of Dungeons & Dragons was launched in January 1974.

    It crawled from below 50 years ago: how the global Dungeons & Dragons empire began in a basement

    The fantasy tabletop role-playing game was conceived of by friends at the heart of Wisconsin’s gaming community, and has evolved to become a global phenomenon
  • A ride through the early days of the internet … Crashboard.

    A skate through cyberspace: on the edge with the Now Play This festival of experimental video games

    This week, Somerset House houses a selection of avant garde games on the theme of liminality

March 2024

  • Fantasy war … South Park: Snow Day!

    South Park: Snow Day! review – a crude, enjoyable playground tussle

    The show’s trademark knack for satire staves off the sameness in this wintry brawler
  • Sam Gyseman, left, who has been playing Dungeons & Dragons since 1986, enjoys a game with friends.

    ‘Theatre of the mind’: celebrating 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons

    The role-playing game, largely powered by participants’ imaginations, continues to attract fans half a century after it was launched
  • Dragon’s Dogma 2.

    Dragon’s Dogma 2 review – chaotic, unpredictable fantasy fun

    This gloriously messy, medieval-flavoured silliness will give you the best adventure you’ve had in years. There’s nothing quite like it

February 2024

  • Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

    Final Fantasy VII Rebirth review – a miracle of fan-service

  • A rare all-rounder … Laralyn McWilliams.

    ‘She was a beautiful nerd’: a tribute to game designer Laralyn McWilliams

January 2024

  • Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

    ‘At this point it’s not just a game’: the making of Ukrainian RPG Stalker 2 – during wartime

  • A character with a beared, at a desk with a lamp in a government office, looks a bit scared in the game Mexico, 1921: A Deep Slumber

    A new kind of history lesson: Mexico, 1921: A Deep Slumber makes you a journalist during a revolution

December 2023

  • From left … Tekken 8 and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s Cloud Strife.

    2024 culture preview
    The best games to look forward to in 2024

  • ‘Dazzling’: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

    Observer critics' review of 2023
    Games: Simon Parkin’s five best of 2023

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