Gaming

Lost Masters is a series of articles that endeavours to take a fresh look at brilliant games that flew under the radar at the time of their release. This month Gaming Editor Andrew Carroll looks at Sleeping Dogs.  If there's one thing…

A good video game story is nothing without a good protagonist and a good video game protagonist is nothing without their companions. From shooters to strategy and from RPGs to walking simulators games have provided us with innumerable…

A 2016 study by the University of Nottingham discovered that teenagers who play video games that depict alcohol and tobacco use may be influenced by that imagery. In fact, those teens were twice as likely to try tobacco and alcohol products…

There’s an old stereotype that gamers are lazy. When people picture avid video game enthusiasts, the reigning stereotype is of someone lazy, sitting in their parents’ basement, eating potato chips.  Fortunately, that’s not the reality for…

No one gives Skyrim enough credit for its military campaign quest line. In fairness it's a combat heavy quest line and combat was never The Elder Scrolls series' strong point but the beginning of that quest line presents you with such a…

A broken warrior trapped in a deep pit, the key to his salvation dropped from above by a mysterious figure in the night. You’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes at the intro to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the latest game from the Dark Souls…

We are in the last days of a generation in 2019. There is little over a year left in the lives of the major consoles: The embattled Xbox One and the lauded PlayStation 4. This time next year we may be considering Halo 6: Infinite or Godfall…

Art is in constant motion, it has to be otherwise it stagnates. Games kept moving forward this decade despite the efforts of some of the most powerful companies and people in the industry. For every rote shooter there was a Spec Ops: The…

Survival horror has changed a great deal in the last ten years. It's still recognisable as what it once was though. The 2010s were the decade where the two juggernauts of survival horror, Resident Evil and Silent Hill, ground to a halt and…

It is pretty amazing to think of all of the tech developments that have taken place over the last couple of decades. Technology has rapidly changed our lives in ways that could be considered either positive or negative. Our grandparents…