🚖 Explore #CrazyTaxi and other #Sega job simulators with
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- #ON3mag dives into games that simulate work and blur the line between fantasy and reality

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‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death From lurid pranks and late-night drives, to why playing in the Revolution was like joining the marines – Prince’s friends and collaborators recount their memories of one of the music world’s most maje...

This is a really beautiful feature 💜

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

I feel like my human rights have been breached

Ahead of my NYU talk on the history/future of games journalism, I want to test a theory about how small/big games media is:

Please share links to where you get games reporting/criticism.

They can be a site, blog, YouTuber, streamer, social handle, podcast. They must be places/people you trust.

Are games art?

Also, please I beg you, literally ANY angle will be more interesting than “it’s not just teenage boys in their bedrooms anymore!”

TV news people: when covering the London Games Festival this month, maybe concentrate on the profound cultural impact of the medium rather than leading FOR THE BILLIONTH TIME on how much money they make. Thanks byeeeeee

Super Mario what?! The seven best obscure Mario games As The Super Mario Galaxy Movie storms the box office, we look back at the best forgotten games inspired by Tetris, Lemmings and … vitamins?

Hi, have you ever played Wrecking Crew, Super Mario Bros Special or Dr Mario 64? Why not come and read about them as well as many other Mario oddities?!

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

The flyer for the London Games Festival: an illustration of a kind-of weird mecha made of various London landmarks, looming over the London skyline while some humans frolic, blue sky behind, title reading "LONDON GAMES FESTIVAL 13 April - 19 April 2026"

Hello! Are you someone in London who's interested in weird playful experiments and commercially implausible games? I've written up some of the stuff happening as part of this year's London Games Festival that I think you should check out

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Yes, Marathon is hard – but that is liberating Opinion | Cruelty is the point

Hiiiii, I wrote about Marathon for GamesRadar - specifically about how its demanding difficulty level has released me from the curse of inventory anxiety. No point in hoarding good guns when you’re gonna get killed anyway 👍

www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/ye...

How games capture the awe and terror of cosmic isolation As real astronauts vanish behind the moon, games have long tried to evoke the fragile quiet of drifting through space

Hi I wrote this week’s Pushing Buttons newsletter about Sci-fi games that seek to capture the existential fear and vulnerability of cosmic travel. Enjoy, space cadets! 🚀🪐

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

This massive space arse will devour us all!

They’re still going!

Newspaper story about Apple’s stock market debut

I bought an old copy of the Guardian - dated 15 Dec 1980 - in a charity shop and found this story about Apple’s stock market debut! It was valued at $65m… I think it’s worth a punt

Happy International Asexuality Day! Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart

🖤🩶 Happy International Asexuality day! 🤍💜

I’m excited to announce that my next game "Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart” is coming soon to Steam and itchio! Sit down and have a heart-to-heart with several characters across the asexual and aromantic spectrums.

Please share and wishlist! 🙏 shorturl.at/wgIN2

Yes this definitely counts! Like Elite, it allows a sort of self-imposed solitude if you avoid dog fights, etc. just drifting alone through space…

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Hello, can I ask: what are you favourite games that capture the solitude, beauty and existential dread of space? This is for something I’m writing

40 years ago, ZZAP! invited some of the best programmers of the day (Archer Maclean, Jeff Minter, Chris Butler, Tony Crowther, Andrew Braybrook) to play one another in contest using their own games (plus one chosen by the ZZAP team). Minter won, with Braybrook coming a close 2nd.

‘I am trapped in a sweet-smelling cycle of video game-branded toiletries’: Lush’s Mario Galaxy range, reviewed From a subtle Princess Peach lip jelly to a Yoshi egg that’s been traumatising children, the cosmetic chain’s latest tie-in is out of this world

Hi I wrote about Lush’s sweeeeet range of Super Mario Galaxy products. Come on, you’ve got nothing better to do today

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

'The stench of it stays with everybody': inside the Super Mario Bros movie In 1993, the makers of The Killing Fields and Chariots of Fire bought the film rights to the world’s biggest video game. The result was a commercial disaster. But that’s only part of the story

Now that the new Super Mario Bros movie is out, come and read about the making of the original. I promise you it’s a hell of a ride!

www.theguardian.com/games/2018/m...

Nice to see you too! There was no room at the car boot casino for me 😭

Pixels and paintings: video games return to the V&A From an interactive session of Sex With Friends to improvised Robot Karaoke, the Friday Live celebration of play and performance amid the museum’s venerable halls was a reminder of gaming’s cultural c...

Hi I went to the V&A player/performer event on Friday night and it was extremely fun

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

If we did it as a drinking game this story would have killed us

Lovely to see you too! Thank you for the brilliant comic! Xx

DreamHack: Gaming's Glastonbury arrives in Birmingham DreamHack brings 50,000 fans to Birmingham's NEC for the gaming festival's first ever UK edition.

Oh my god, the BBC story is worse. It ticks every box on the fatuous mainstream games coverage list:

Present lazy stereotype of gamers ✅
Shock at global games revenue ✅
Realisation that adults play games ✅
Trite ending of newfound respect ✅

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Look, I don’t want to be horrible, it’s great that ITV News is reporting from Dreamhack BUT “gaming has graduated from armchairs to arenas”?! “Dreamhack is evidence we’ve moved on from an arcade era”?! arcade era?!! What year of Dreamhack were they attending?!

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I mentioned Itchy, Tasty in the Guardian’s Pushing Buttons newsletter last week. It’s a brilliant book

Greater Manchester school library censorship: who is accountable? - Index on Censorship Now that Lowry Academy has been publicly named, Index has written a follow-up to last week's book banning story

The book banning school in Manchester has now been named, the Lowry Academy. Some of the books have been returned to the shelves but not all. Glad to hear CILIP are supporting the librarian ://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greater-manchester-school-library-censorship-who-is-accountable/

Amazing collection!!