Black Girl Gamers, a sci-fi veteran and Swedish Fortnite star Loeya are just a few of the YouTube video-makers and Twitch streamers bringing diverse voices to the gaming sphere

Little discussed outside its fanbase, it amassed 75 million registered users who provide a brilliantly welcoming community for neurodivergent gamers

YouTubers Rose and Rosie had very different experiences of games growing up – then they fell in love. What happens when one partner loves Sonic, Tetris and GTA but the other doesn’t?

This horror thriller shocked the games industry with its tense world of terror – and its monstrous vision is as fearsome as ever

Thanks to the popularity of open-world video games – and Stranger Things – a new generation has rediscovered the communal pleasures of the 80s role-playing phenomenon

This gloriously messy, medieval-flavoured silliness will give you the best adventure you’ve had in years. There’s nothing quite like it

Many of us are finding it hard to concentrate on books during lockdown – so here are some games that do fascinating things with words and stories

You’re pirates on the ocean wave, fighting sea monsters and digging up buried treasure, but you’re also larking about playing musical instruments

This is a genuinely fraught topic: is it generational, habitual, or explained by neuroscience? I asked the experts

Presenter Jessica Curry says she wants to prove it’s not all about soundtracking battle scenes – there are plenty of beautiful, relaxing sounds, too

The weather’s as bad as ever, but this smart, inventive and witty open-world game is a veritable Viking feast of adventure

Striking a perfect balance between friction and flow, could this battle royale hit be the perfect shooter game?

Part newspapers, part fanzines, these titles were a lifeline to information-starved gamers and generated a sense of community to rival any YouTube streamer

Players can swap between Peter Parker and Miles Morales in a lovingly envisaged whirlwind of superhero violence set in an astoundingly detailed and beautiful New York City

Game will be first in series since Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was released in 2007

At a moment when real life is wracked by crisis, designers say that games should offer a respite from violence, rather than celebrating it

As it celebrates with a teaser of a new update, the strange, metaphysical space exploration has survived a tricky take-off and retained its vital spirit

Want to build worlds, become a crime kingpin, get lost in space, or enter the afterlife? Then our countdown of the 50 best games of the era has something for you

Game worlds are becoming ever more beautiful, and the appeal of photo modes and enemy-free mods shows we are keen to interact with them without guns and fists

I taught my son how to play video games. Now he’s teaching me

Interview | John Romero casts his mind back over the last 30 years, and looks to the future of a tried and tested genre

On the threshold of a new console generation with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, here are the industry’s most influential and impactful machines over 50 years of gaming

Drawing on her own cathartic relationship with role-playing games, Leilani uses gaming as a narrative device and an inspiration in her acclaimed debut

They seemed like the future … and here we are. We remember the key PC machines that inspired a generation of gamers and programmers

In 1993, a team of five coders released what would become one of the most influential video games ever made. Three decades on, they explain how they did it

In 1998, the Sega Dreamcast changed the whole face of console and games design, but it was haunted by an unbeatable competitor