As I write this, I have just finished my first playthrough of Heavy Rain. I have, by turns, felt my heart pounding and ...

The blurb for this column asserts that I write on “the major issues, events and trends that ultimately decide what games end up ...

The games industry is beloved of rather unnecessary cool-sounding jargon such as “blast processing,” “parallax scrolling,” and, er, “going gold” for that matter. ...

Perfection’s not quite the big deal it used to be, at least according to the foremost critics of gaming. Eyebrows have been raised ...

It seems strange to be here: a week after the biggest gaming launch in history, and still concerned about the future of the ...

As Activision’s Bobby Kotick is finding out, the games industry loves to pick on the big guy. For most of this decade the ...

Why are there 27 identical guitar games, but no Shenmue 3? There are some very simple reasons why the games industry doesn’t work ...

Crunch time, a bizarre but necessary fact of life in the games industry, is not conducive to turning an article in to a ...

I had always thought that the hate directed at motion controls stemmed from irrational fanboyism – the usual “It’s not on my console ...

Was it me, or did most of us seem to collectively ignore the sequel to the biggest-selling single-platform videogame of all time? Wii ...

I often wonder why gamers, myself included, always seem to be so unhappy. There seems to be far more complaining than discussion or ...