Financial Times • 3rd April 2024 Financial Times: Open Roads review Character development is the key to this visually stylish story of family secrets.
Financial Times • 26th March 2024 Financial Times: Rise of the Rōnin review Team Ninja’s ambitious new game is set during Japan’s opening-up to the outside world. The fighting is fun but its world is overstuffed.
Financial Times • 27th February 2024 Financial Times: Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth review — a remake that lavishly upgrades the original The much-loved role-playing adventure is radically expanded in this second instalment of the trilogy.
Financial Times • 25th January 2024 Financial Times: Tekken 8 and how the fighting game is fighting back After a patch of relative irrelevance since its 1990s golden age, the combat video game genre is experiencing a renaissance.
Financial Times • 6th December 2023 Financial Times: Can Grand Theft Auto VI match its $7.7bn predecessor? There’s a lot riding on the release but early signs look good, with stunning visuals, street racing and angry Karens.
Financial Times • 11th November 2023 Financial Times: Can a Zelda film ever live up to the beloved game? This fan is sceptical Video games give players the raw materials to tell their own stories — a vital ingredient that cannot be translated into film.
Financial Times • 28th December 2022 Financial Times: Why do so few video games feature children? ‘Grand Theft Auto’ was no place for kids but newer titles are incorporating them as a way of adding emotional depth.
Financial Times • 22nd December 2022 Financial Times: Best video games of 2022 Whether you like medieval mysteries, robot dinosaurs or gentle ginger cats, there’s something for you here.
Financial Times • 21st December 2022 Financial Times: Can games do battle with unchecked capitalism? The benefits and excesses of political ideologies are a popular theme but honest and intelligent analysis is rare.
Financial Times • 13th December 2022 Financial Times: New handheld consoles are turning gamers into hardware agnostics Steam Deck and cloud gaming have sparked a comeback for dedicated devices.
Financial Times • 6th December 2022 Financial Times: Why shoot baddies when you could tend crops? The popularity of farming simulators persists with ‘Stardew Valley’ having sold 20mn copies since 2016.
Financial Times • 29th November 2022 Financial Times: Pentiment video game review — a thrilling medieval murder mystery Mixing illuminated manuscripts and Reformation-era debates, the game is ambitious and profound.
Financial Times • 22nd November 2022 Financial Times: Beyond the silver surfers: gaming is not just for the young Despite their slower trigger fingers, older people are playing more than ever.
Financial Times • 15th November 2022 Financial Times: God of War: Ragnarök review — a thrilling game imbued with heart Plus other new action-adventure titles ‘A Plague Tale: Requiem’ and ‘Bayonetta 3’.
Financial Times • 8th November 2022 Financial Times: How video games became a new playground for artists Digital artist LuYang is typical of a new generation blurring the boundaries between gaming and fine art.
Financial Times • 1st November 2022 Financial Times: When poetry and games speak the same language A London exhibition explores the overlaps and surprising similarities between the two forms.
Financial Times • 25th October 2022 Financial Times: Return to Monkey Island recaptures the original’s swashbuckling magic The comedic pirate video game is making a witty, accomplished comeback.
Financial Times • 18th October 2022 Financial Times: In gaming today, ‘black people should not be an afterthought’ Black History Month shines a spotlight on games that reflect diverse experience.
Financial Times • 11th October 2022 Financial Times: Trombone Champ and the joy of butchering the classics Rhythm games have declined since the heyday of Guitar Hero but indie developers are giving them a new twist.
Financial Times • 4th October 2022 Financial Times: War games exhibition explores uneasy union of conflict, tech and entertainment The Imperial War Museum’s show examines the role video games play in helping us understand battle.