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  • A video game fighter jet pilot in helmet and oxygen mask sits in the cockpit, clouds outside, from Ace Combat 8

    Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve review – brilliant aerial combat game fulfils the Top Gun fantasy

    The game generates blood-pumping moments as you twist, turn and weave through the skies, while your locked-on missiles speed away to obliterate an enemy plane
  • A scene from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 showing a soldier aiming a rifle as a helicopter flies overhead near mountains

    double quotation markPlaying video games with my 22-year-old son has brought me to tears

    Dominik Diamond
  • US-GAMING-VIDEO GAMES-POKEMONPeople attend the 2026 Pokemon World Championships and Pokemon XP at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on August 29, 2026. More than 50,000 fans are expected to be in attendance for the 3-day event from August 28-30 as the Pokemon World Championships return to San Francisco for the first time in a decade and for Pokemon XP, the first fan convention of its kind. The Pokemon franchise has an estimated global revenue of over $147 billion since launching in 1996, making it the world's most valuable media franchise.

    Meet the real-life Pokémon professors, the unsung heroes of competitive monster-battling

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    Why fans are digging their claws into Wolverine over its patronising gameplay

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  • In Control, a person shoots fire from their hand at a monstrous red creature in a rainy city

    Control Resonant review – save New York from paranormal phenomena

  • In Silent Hill: Townfall, a bearded man in glasses reads a glowing red device in darkness

    Silent Hill: Townfall review – shame and suffering on the Scottish coast

  • Animated male figure holding up his index finger

    Roman Sands RE:Build review – marooned in a crumbling vaporwave dream

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  • Jason and Lucia stand back-to-back holding rifles as cash flies through the air

    double quotation markGrand Theft Auto VI: can playing a video game count as cheating on your partner?

    Emma Flint
  • Keza MacDonald

    double quotation markThe Trump White House’s fetish for gamer culture has moved up a level with new arcade

    Keza MacDonald
  • Strange yellow figure runs away from boxing gloves on the end of hoses in a shot from a phone game called Annoying Uncle Punch

    double quotation markHelp! I have disappeared down a rabbithole of horrible mobile gaming adverts

    Dominik Diamond
  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markI put myself in the prime minister’s shoes – and learned some uncomfortable lessons

    Zoe Williams
  • Marvel's Wolverine game screenshot

    Marvel’s Wolverine review – a gloriously conflicted lead is let down by crude, boring battling

  • In Star Wars Zero Company, a small blue character fist-bumps a larger horned, fanged creature

    Star Wars Zero Company review – joyfully absurd heroics with a tight-knit team of misfits

  • A fierce woman warrior holds two curved knives, surrounded by ancient ruins and soldiers

    Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review – picture-postcard retelling of haunting Minoan myth

  • Weathered concrete buildings with a glowing "Officine" sign in a dark, abandoned game setting

    Vholume review – a headlong rush of parkour perfection in a brutalist wonderland

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