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Nintendo’s reign over the handheld market has never faced a stronger threat than the bite-sized mobile titles on your phone or tablet. They’re cheap, cheerful and immediately accessible. WarioWare, Inc: Minigame Mania! however, beat them all to the punch. In 2003 the idea of a game split into hundreds of …

For many of his followers, Alex ‘PangaeaPanga (opens in new tab)’ must seem like nothing short of a god. Not only does he have the genius to devise some of the hardest, most grueling Super Mario Maker (opens in new tab) levels imaginable – he also has the astonishing skills …

I wanted to like Splatoon so much more than I actually did. In the review (opens in new tab) I wrote back in May, I remarked that Splatoon is a fantastic shooter marred by a content problem – namely, there just isn’t enough of it. With a brief single-player campaign …

Like its soon-to-graduate participants, Dare ProtoPlay is in a state of transition. The event, which marks the culmination of Abertay University’s annual Dare To Be Digital student game design competition, has been steadily growing over the past few years, and now it’s looking to bolster its offering. Director Dr William …

First, there’s the origin story everyone knows. Following the success of Donkey Kong Country in 1994 a Super Mario World 2 prototype was rejected by Nintendo’s internal evaluation team and Shigeru Miyamoto was told to move the graphics in DKC’s pre-rendered direction. One year later, Yoshi’s Island was the result …

Out of time Note: A earlier version of this article was published in December 2013. By golly, that Metal Gear Solid 5 certainly looks sumptuous now doesn’t it? Even on the old school systems! Who’d have thought that a title as singularly ambitious as this could still appear so sweet, …

One of the horror genre’s oldest rules of thumb is “don’t show people the monster”, because there’s nothing more unnerving than the devil you don’t know. Dreamt up by Turtle Rock and brought hideously to life with Valve’s aid (opens in new tab), the masterful Left 4 Dead takes that …

Out on Friday 25 September Dane DeHaan is James Dean. Andrew Garfield has a twist on househunting. Craig Roberts is the director, writer and star of his own film. Yes, heres this weeks new releases. Click on for our reviews of Life, 99 Homes, Just Jim, Arcade Fire: The Reflektor …

Ghost in the Shell is a Japanese franchise spanning multiple volumes of manga, anime adaptations, movies and more. At first glance you might think of it as just another sci-fi fantasy anime – it does, after all, feature a buxom lead female with purple hair fighting crime in a thong. …

Oh my gosh, that’s…! Let’s face it: Destiny’s voice actors don’t have much they can chew into. In the year since its release, Destiny’s expansions – including the megaton additions in The Taken King – have done a lot to flesh out the story, but you won’t find too many …