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‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

silverguide.site – Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state…
‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth
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Is the Nintendo Switch the best console of its generation – or just the most meaningful to me?

silverguide.site – For years, the Switch has been ​a companion through life’s changes​, gaming milestones​ and a lifeline to fun in chaotic times…
Is the Nintendo Switch the best console of its generation – or just the most meaningful to me?
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Deliver at All Costs review – madcap driving game goes nowhere fast

silverguide.site – This 1950s-set game offers a gorgeous, fully destroyable map but makes baffling decisions on how to use it…
Deliver at All Costs review – madcap driving game goes nowhere fast
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Farm Simulator: 16bit Edition review – the simple joy of ploughing your own furrow

silverguide.site – It may be seem horrendously old-fashioned, but the seemingly dull repetition of working your wheat fields has a nostalgic pull like a combine harvester…
Farm Simulator: 16bit Edition review – the simple joy of ploughing your own furrow
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Baroque breakout hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is unlike any game you’ve played before

silverguide.site – This might be the most French game ever – but there is more to the small-scale development of this belle époque-inspired beauty than you think…
Baroque breakout hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is unlike any game you’ve played before
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Despelote review – a beautiful, utterly transportive game of football fandom

silverguide.site – Set during Ecuador’s 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign, this fascinating, semi-autobiographical game gives you control of the life of a soccer-mad eight-year-old…
Despelote review – a beautiful, utterly transportive game of football fandom
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‘It was just the perfect game’: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB

silverguide.site – The man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigning…
‘It was just the perfect game’: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB
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Does video game monetisation harm children – and what is Australia doing about it?

silverguide.site – Games like Roblox are played by millions of children globally – but some researchers warn dark design patterns embedded in them are difficult to avoid…
Does video game monetisation harm children – and what is Australia doing about it?
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Doom: The Dark Ages review – id Software gets medieval in a dramatic rewrite of the shooter’s rules

silverguide.site – This prequel takes a blunt force trauma approach to problem-solving and demon-killing, with a slower pace but more spectacular weaponry…
Doom: The Dark Ages review – id Software gets medieval in a dramatic rewrite of the shooter’s rules
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GTA6 gets it on: can the notoriously cynical action series finally find time for romance?

silverguide.site – The newest trailer indicates Grand Theft Auto VI may have a soft centre, with its focus on outlaw lovers Lucia and Jason…
GTA6 gets it on: can the notoriously cynical action series finally find time for romance?
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When video games journalism eats itself, we all lose out | Keith Stuart

silverguide.site – As industry giants trade beloved brands like commodities and AI offers easy content, independent games outlets are ​rising up. Here’s why they’re sorely needed…
When video games journalism eats itself, we all lose out | Keith Stuart
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Drop Duchy review – a sprawling challenge disguised as a block-dropping puzzler

silverguide.site – Build a card deck of landscape features; organise your territory on a Tetris-like playfield; battle enemies and bosses to progress. It might sound complicated, but this is an ingenious experiment in game design by combination…
Drop Duchy review – a sprawling challenge disguised as a block-dropping puzzler
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Grand Theft Auto VI delayed until May 2026

silverguide.site – Much anticipated title was due in autumn but fans will now have to wait another year after the announcement by Rockstar Games…
Grand Theft Auto VI delayed until May 2026
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Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches

silverguide.site – Their tech may have been primitive, but for 80s schoolchildren of a certain kind they had a glamour to equal any modern iPhone…
Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches
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I had a passionate crush on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Could it still thrill me 19 years later?

silverguide.site – When Bethesda surprise-released a remake last week, I revisited its world to see if the magic was still there…
I had a passionate crush on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Could it still thrill me 19 years later?
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Skin Deep review – kitty rescue immersive-sim is slapstick fun in a cartoony playground

silverguide.site – This attempt to cosy-fi an immersive sim game is full of ‘zany’ gags as you rescue cats from a spaceship, but it gets a bit too saccharine…
Skin Deep review – kitty rescue immersive-sim is slapstick fun in a cartoony playground
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Playing with words: why novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa

silverguide.site – While the novel remains a high-status cultural form, video game writing is still seen as a throwaway art – despite some of the biggest names in fiction being involved…
Playing with words: why novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa
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Atomfall might have been an apocalyptic classic if it wasn’t for all the walking | Dominik Diamond

silverguide.site – The Lake District after the 1957 Windscale nuclear disaster is a great setting for a game – and gorgeously rendered. That doesn’t mean I want to endlessly keep traversing it…
Atomfall might have been an apocalyptic classic if it wasn’t for all the walking | Dominik Diamond
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Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 review – reality-bending daftness

silverguide.site – What looks like a glitchy dinosaur-hunting puzzler turns out to be a meta game about game development that the player patches as they go…
Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 review – reality-bending daftness
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Lost Records explores the joys and dangers of our cultural obsession with nostalgia

silverguide.site – Designers have long used nostalgia as a narrative device – but how does it reflect our own relationship with games?…
Lost Records explores the joys and dangers of our cultural obsession with nostalgia
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