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16  avril     09h00
As if Wes Anderson ran amok at Aardman: Harold Halibut, the visually stunning puppet adventure game
Lewis Gordon    Fourteen years in the making, this character driven sci fi tale is a wonder of technology and imagination so texturally convincing you’ll want to touch itTicktock, ticktock. In the dripping confines of the Fedora, an aquatic space colony of exquisite retro futuristic design, it’s not water but...
15  avril     15h18
They even got a real jetpack in there ’: Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan on Fallout
Keza MacDonald    The director of the Fallout TV series and the director of the modern Fallout video games sit down together to talk about the audacity of video game storytelling and hope in a post apocalyptic wastelandIf you had asked director Jonathan Nolan what his favourite film of the year was in the late s,...
14  avril     13h00
How Neopets’ nostalgic revival tripled users in six months
Kari Paul    An icon of millennials’ childhoods languished for nearly two decades. Now it’s attempting a comeback banking on the fact that it hasn’t changed at allIn the early s, Olivia Packenham would get home from school, listen to the familiar sound of the dial up tone as her family computer connected...
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Now Play This 2024 review - the eccentricity is the point
Simon Parkin    Somerset House, LondonA world away from Fortnite and Call of Duty, the UK’s biggest festival of experimental games celebrates quirky one offs and making it up as you go alongVideo game conventions are typically boisterous affairs, as thousands of visitors queue under a constellation of screens for...
12  avril     11h37
Bafta games awards hail one of gaming’s best ever years
Keza MacDonald    Despite lay offs and studio closures, the th edition of the ceremony saw Dungeons amp; Dragons inspired Baldur’s Gate become the runaway winner in a hotly contested fieldIn London last night, the th Bafta games awards celebrated a year that was stacked with critically acclaimed games. Taking...
11  avril     11h00
It crawled from below 50 years ago: how the global Dungeons & Dragons empire began in a basement
Keith Stuart    The fantasy tabletop role playing game was conceived of by friends at the heart of Wisconsin’s gaming community, and has evolved to become a global phenomenonThere are of us crammed into a cellar beneath a nondescript house in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. To the uninformed observer, there’s nothing...