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Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game – it’s a bold art film | Dominik Diamond

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With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur moviesI spent Valentine’s Day not with my wife but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It’s a new game called Speed Dates – Winter Edition, which I only chanced upon when […]

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Resident Evil Requiem review – there’s plenty of life in the undead yet

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Fear, fights and feverish fanservice collide in this celebration of Resident Evil’s recent and retro legacyPC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 2; CapcomThere’s often an undercurrent of existential fatigue in games that look back at their legacy. Dark Souls III’s dying kingdom, Metal Gear Solid 4’s decrepit Snake. So when Capcom showed us an ageing

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Why Xbox’s corporate shake-up matters for everyone who plays games

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With its longtime figureheads stepping aside, Microsoft’s gaming division faces a pivotal moment, raising questions about whether it can still balance creative ambition with corporate strategy in the age of AI• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereAnd so it’s all change at Xbox. Last Friday it was announced that the

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Pieced Together review – poignant narrative game gathers bittersweet fragments of a friendship

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Glowfrog Games; PC Short but very sweet tale asks the player to compile a scrapbook of mementoes telling the story of a heartfelt bond that frays over timeThere are few things sadder than the end of a close friendship. Whether it happens in a sudden moment of betrayal or after years of gradual separation, the

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Anlife: what does an unusual evolution simulator have to say about AI?

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We explore the strange food-obsessed world of a new game whose tech was once called ‘an insult to life itself’ by Hayao Miyazaki, the film-maker behind Spirited AwayA strange piece of software has recently landed on the PC gaming store Steam. And “software” feels like the cleanest way to describe it. Existing somewhere between a

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Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums

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Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armiesA new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies.Players of Relooted become South African sports scientist and

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The QuickShot II joystick review – 80s clicks and waggles lovingly recreated

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The updated QuickShot II brings retro gameplay into the modern era while preserving the no-frills button smashing and endearing flaws that fans lovedNostalgia is big in the modern games industry. It’s ironic that the most technologically obsessed art form on the planet is just as watery-eyed about the past as cinema and music. And to

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Roblox sued by Los Angeles over claims platform ‘makes children easy prey for pedophiles’

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LA County says the gaming company does not carry out adequate moderation and its age-verification systems are not fit for purpose, which Roblox deniesOfficials in Los Angeles have said they are suing Roblox, alleging the popular online platform exposes children to sexual content, exploitation and online predators.In a lawsuit, Los Angeles County said the company

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Mario Tennis Fever review – serving up banana peel-laced multiplayer chaos

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Nintendo Switch 2; NintendoThis ruthlessly competitive game will have everyone from your granny to semi-pros trying to set fire to their opponent’s side of the court with powered-up ‘fever rackets’Tennis has been a regular hobby of Mario’s for the past 30 years, beginning with the headache-inducing Mario’s Tennis on the Virtual Boy and most recently

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The Winter Olympics feel like a 90s snowboarding game, and I’m here for it

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Milano Cortina has cutting‑edge replays, chase‑cam drones and exuberant commentary bringing a wave of unexpected nostalgia for anyone who grew up on 90s extreme‑sports games• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereAs someone whose childhood holidays consisted of narrowboating along the Grand Union canal or wandering the harbour-side at Whitby looking

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