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With Halloween just around the corner, let’s take a look at what spooktacular games Sony and Microsoft have for their premium members this month.

With the 14th BAFTA awards having wrapped up a few weeks ago, it seems appropriate to take a closer look at the UK video...

TASTEE: Lethal Tactics is a simultaneous, turn-based tactics game. Command your mercenaries with precision and anticipate your opponents' movements to take them down in...

Has backwards compatibility become the selling point of modern gaming?

Lara Croft and her games have been reimagined more than once, each point marking a decade of game design. While Legend was the first real reboot, building a new engine, gameplay style and backstory from the ground up, I feel like Anniversary is the best one to point out how much Tomb Raider had changed. It was a honest to god remake and not simply a HD texture pack, and took subtle but definite steps to turn Lara Croft into a more fleshed out, more human character. Tomb Raider 2013's reboot overshadows the previous one, but the reasons for that might not be in it's favour.

Kettle on. Shoes off. Jump onto the sofa and grab a controller. Instantly I am transported to another world. For their 'Mind Yourself' campaign, Independent.ie asked me to discuss my happy place. Video games are my happy place. They have the ability to take you to places you've never been, discover civilizations unknown, to be a hero, all from your own home.

It's not the first time the video games industry has been called out the way it portrays women. A recent study co-published by US and...

After falling victim to becoming complacent after the success of the Xbox 360, Microsoft came out swinging with their 2016 E3 press conference.

Game reviewer Alanah Pearce teaches abusive trolls a lesson New Face of Feminism 3.0 Underscores Misdirection of American Values Alanah Pearce, a 21 year old student...

Video games and the people who play them are never far from controversy. Moral panics ranging from school shootings, to stunted development, to misogyny, murder, crime and even Satan's evil influence on the souls of the young have dogged our hobby.