Video Games

A forthcoming release from fantasy video game franchise The Legend of Zelda and a Bettye LaVette throwback remix also make this week's highlights

As COVID-19 intensified, video games about disease spread

The artist’s solo exhibition at GAO Gallery, London, is brash, demented and necessary

The 2010s was the decade in which video-game story-telling became self-aware

‘It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.’ Aren’t so many of us feeling like that these days?

Why are recent blockbuster video games so obsessed with religion?

Super Mario Bros. and Metroid had a profound influence on game soundtracks

As predictions of climate catastrophe become realities, there has been a shift in game-making, from grandiose blockbuster ‘Anthem’ to the emotionally-charged ‘Sea of Solitude’

The V&A’s annual conference ‘Parallel Worlds’ revealed a medium battling with the formal and the personal

In a medium where ‘flow’ and ‘golden moments’ are designers’ goals, the elegiac ‘Vane’ is decidedly not like other games

Narratively, the ‘choose your own adventure’ film is a dead-end, with repetition and wheel-spinning increasingly producing frustration

There is no violence in games, only its representation – but a suffragette-beating controversy demonstrates that videogame violence is not without meaning

A new exhibition addresses the impregnable fortress of technical detail and corporate hyperbole in game design

Nods to the game in World Cup celebrations show how dance has gone viral – but unwittingly instrumentalized for commercial interests

The problem with Apu, time-travelling with the sari and the Instagrammable moment’s predecessor: what to read this weekend

The dystopian promise of the fidget spinner, 'family values' and neoliberalism, and visions of art after social collapse: what to read this weekend

The successful deployment of melancholy as a marketing tool to sell war-based video games