22 June 2022
From global chip shortages to the war in Ukraine, major games studios have to delay their big releases. Luckily, eager players can find solace in smaller games like Silt or Spacelines from the Far Out, says Jacob Aron
5 May 2022
This lo-fi role-playing game set aboard a decaying space station sees you play as a Sleeper, a human mind in a robot body. Multiple storylines to explore create a fantastic sci-fi tapestry, finds Jacob Aron
20 October 2021
Deathloop is the most ambitious of the recent glut of time loop-based games, but the end is ultimately unsatisfying, says Jacob Aron
7 October 2020
Choice is a defining feature of video games, but the post-apocalyptic world of Wasteland 3 takes it to extremes. Such flexibility has a price, finds Jacob Aron
9 September 2020
Computer game 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel isn't for the faint-hearted because it means keeping track of all the possible threats to every king that ever existed
17 June 2020
Playing as a murderous shark on a rampage isn't nearly as fun as being a horrible goose terrorising a village, finds Jacob Aron
22 January 2020
Ancestors is the latest attempt to gamify millions of years of evolution but doesn't have the excitement gene, says Jacob Aron
11 December 2019
Playing Death Stranding, a new game set in a post-apocalypse US, helps me understand how it feels to be a gig worker dependent on good user ratings, says Jacob Aron in his latest column
27 November 2019
Brexit may seem important right now, but whoever wins the election will be in charge halfway to 2030 – a crucial time in efforts to limit dangerous warming, says Jacob Aron
13 November 2019
Video games like The Outer Worlds are beginning to match the imagination and flexibility of tabletop RPGs. Just add bigger data sets and computing power, says Jacob Aron in his latest column
