Keza MacDonald    The annual event which faced years of Covid disruption will not return in E the video game industry s biggest annual expo has been cancelled The show had been due to make a return after years of Covid disruption this June in Los Angeles but in a joint statement the US s Entertainment

Keith Stuart    The were gasps in the crowd as a cult indie shooter beat the blockbusters to the key award of the nightIt must be one of the biggest shock wins in the history of the Bafta Games Awards Up against huge blockbuster titles such as Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarök the best game winner at this year

Keith Stuart    Animal friendly cosmetics brand Lush is releasing a range of Mario themed products so our reporter tried them for scienceThe announcement that cosmetics chain Lush would be running a collaboration with the Super Mario Bros Movie was met with some incredulity in the video game press last week

Malindy Hetfeld    PC smartphones via Netflix Free Lives Devolver DigitalThe rewarding environmental restoration game plays like a puzzle and is satisfyingly simpleIn the beginning there is nothing before you but cracked brown earth This landscape of toxic soil and dried out riverbeds is yours to restore in

James Tapper    Farming Simulator lets customers test out new trailers balers and other machinery before buying the real thingTractors are commonly sold to farmers at agricultural fairs and announced in the trade press But machinery makers are falling over themselves to get a slice of a much more unlikely

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell    PC Xbox Whitethorn GamesThis brief raw and unsettling reimagining of a celebrated environmentalist s campaign against pesticides presents a sickly vision of nature contaminated by humansVideo games are often getaways to ravishing natural worlds The Forest Cathedral transports you to one whose