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  • Lara Croft does a flying kick while holding two handguns in Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered

    Lara Croft is 30! We look at the video game icon’s biggest blunders

    We all know the highlights of the tomb raider’s storied career – but what about the lowlights? We dig deep to unearth the archaeologist’s less glorious moments
  • Mass Effect 3 video game squad artwork

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    Lucy James
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review – a thrilling airport novel of a game

  • An animated character mid-swing releases a pink bowling ball down a lane in Switch Sports Resort

    Nintendo Switch Sports Resort review – Wii Sports lives on in this effortlessly appealing collection of games

  • A Modern Warfare soldier in tactical gear and night-vision goggles moves through wind and debris.

    ‘The audience gets to be in on it’: How narrative-led gameplay is Call of Duty’s greatest weapon

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  • A penguin stands on snow near a glowing orb beside dark statue-like silhouettes in icy fog

    Penguin Colony review – an Antarctic odyssey of Nazis and Lovecraftian horrors

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    From Mario to machine guns: how Ubisoft Paris made Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Tactics

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  • A scene from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 showing a soldier aiming a rifle as a helicopter flies overhead near mountains

    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: technology/games - ประเด็นร้อนPlaying video games with my 22-year-old son has brought me to tears

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

    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: technology/games - ประเด็นร้อนGrand Theft Auto VI: can playing a video game count as cheating on your partner?

    Emma Flint
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    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: technology/games - ประเด็นร้อนThe 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

    ✨ อัปเดตล่าสุด: technology/games - ประเด็นร้อนHelp! I have disappeared down a rabbithole of horrible mobile gaming adverts

    Dominik Diamond
  • Andrew Koji and Noah Centineo in Street Fighter

    Street Fighter review – nostalgia only goes so far in junky fighting game movie

  • End of Abyss video game screenshot

    End of Abyss review – a creepy dollhouse take on Resident Evil and The Thing

  • In the Silver Pines game, a silhouetted guitarist performs onstage, watched by two seated figures in a dim bar

    Silver Pines review – a stylish, neo-noir detective drama

  • Marcus, in armour, raises a rifle with a chainsaw blade attachment; another soldier stands behind

    Gears of War: E-Day review – an alien invasion shouldn’t be this boring

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