26 June 2021
Amazing visuals, cinematic techniques, and inventive weapons - Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is perfectly timed to take full advantage of the PS5 console, says Jacob Aron
13 January 2021
Vikings are rarely portrayed as a civilized people, but new game Assassin's Creed Valhalla has it both ways with people playing nice while still overrunning everything in sight, says Jacob Aron
5 August 2020
Two recent books imagine a different history of science, but one handles the prejudices of the time much better than the other, says Jacob Aron
7 April 2020
The video game Resident Evil 3 was in development long before the coronavirus outbreak, but it holds up a mirror to the strange times we live in today
17 March 2020
Doom Eternal does contain gratuitous violence, but the evidence suggests violence in video games doesn't affect people's behaviour in the real world, says Jacob Aron
2 March 2020
Adrian Tchaikovsky's latest novel The Doors of Eden rewrites Earth's evolutionary history, with highlights including fish that upload their minds to supercomputers and cats that rule over primates
29 May 2019
Building your own Mars colony comes with tricky dilemmas, such as who to exclude for the greater good, writes Jacob Aron in his monthly games column
28 November 2018
The best fantastic novels and comic series of the year mourn a wild past and look with trepidation towards a weird future
12 June 2018
From cyberpunk and hypnotic patterns to warfare in ancient Greece, here’s the highlights from the latest crop of video games released at this year’s E3
