Having abandoned them entirely in a fit of fury in the late 90s, I recently made a return to platform games. How long before the rage takes over?

My dreams of reliving the good old days of NHL 94 on the Sega Mega Drive were thwarted by the unexpected difficulty of getting online play to work

Marijuana is legal where I live in Canada, so I decided to give it a try and see whether it would improve my gaming experience – or just end in a panic attack

It may have looked like something you’d see a bank teller use, but it withstood heavy battering. And it ran the coolest games

While religion doesn’t feature much in video games, I find the theory that we are all characters in a huge sim ever more believable – and appealing, writes Dominik Diamond

After a labyrinth of menus as intuitive as dadaist poetry, players are rewarded with knockoffs of decades-old games too maliciously bad to have been designed by AI

I hoped the cat-herding for a family gaming night would be worth it to enjoy one of the most soothing games ever. But the bricks did not line up

The plague finally caught up with me – so of course I passed the time banished to the basement playing a contagiously fun game about spreading a plague

I hate real life golf – too many things can go wrong. So why do I love playing PGA Tour 2K23?

We’ve lived in more places than we can remember, but home is where the games are

The parents of the home computer gamers of the 1980s presumably hoped we’d become programmers or accountants, but instead their kids ended up like me

Dominik Diamond finds himself, once again, on the fringes of the gaming conversation, as the world is taken over by Zelda-mania

I love games but they’ve never affected me like music or books … then I found one about parental regret and bad life decisions