PlayStation

Pushing Buttons: When even PlayStation is cutting jobs, something is seriously wrong with games

In this week’s newsletter: Sony’s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development – it’s go big, or go home

Keza MacDonald

28, Feb, 2024 @12:30 PM

Sony to lay off 900 workers in its PlayStation division

Company will cut 8% of workforce, citing changes in industry and a need to ‘deliver on expectations from developers and gamers’

Guardian staff and agencies

27, Feb, 2024 @5:31 PM

Stroke of genius? How one developer earned over £250k from games made in 30 minutes

More than 120,000 PlayStation users have paid £3.29 to pet virtual hamsters, dogs and beavers. What’s behind this madness?

Ellie Gibson

15, Feb, 2024 @1:30 PM

‘People laughed at it’: the unlikely story behind the music of Crash Bandicoot

For many, the game became the sound of the 90s – but Josh Mancell tells us how the music for PlayStation’s first mascot game originated in Kraft cheese and Kraftwerk

Dom Peppiatt

12, Jan, 2024 @12:00 PM

Building blocks of a new metaverse: Lego Fortnite is a delight to play

This open-world survival sim is a shameless act of corporate synergy, but it’s luscious and relaxing, with a nostalgic, surprisingly emotional charm

Keith Stuart

08, Dec, 2023 @12:33 PM

Pushing Buttons: The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ushered in an era of technical brilliance – but creative timidity

The ‘next gen’ consoles of 2013 invented high-definition gaming and cleared the way for streaming – but a decade on, what did they get wrong?

Keith Stuart

29, Nov, 2023 @3:00 PM

SteamWorld Build review – tinker with a tiny township full of robots in hats

Westworld meets Dungeon Keeper in this characterful city-builder, where you design the perfect town for a population of robots

Lewis Packwood

29, Nov, 2023 @9:00 AM

Metal Gear Solid at 25: ‘It played a big part in making games grow up’

Game developers, musicians and artists reflect on Hideo Kojima’s landmark political stealth-thriller on its 25th anniversary

Tom Regan

26, Oct, 2023 @9:00 AM

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 review – a big, wholehearted fantasy full of conflict and emotion

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

Keith Stuart

16, Oct, 2023 @2:23 PM

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty review: excellent expansion enhances an overhauled game

CD Projekt’s stylish RPG has undergone a radical transformation, and the expansion starring Idris Elba makes the best of the game’s new features

Rick Lane

22, Sep, 2023 @11:57 AM

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 preview: hands-on with the web-slinging duo

The storytelling is superb but Peter Parker and Miles Morales’s vastly expanded New York playground steals the show as you soar from one jaw-dropping encounter to another

Tom Regan

15, Sep, 2023 @3:00 PM

New worlds of adventure: the most exciting video games of autumn 2023

From trips into the vast universe of Starfield, or the Islamic golden age, to a cuddly cat caper, these 10 games will be the big players in the coming months

Keza MacDonald

22, Aug, 2023 @4:00 PM