The Dark Samus amiibo is a tactile delight

I can’t stop touching my Dark Samus. Send help.

All the stuff I wrote about video games in 2019

It’s been a busy year.

The Most Agreeable Games of 2019

It’s that time again – here’s our pick of the best games of the year.

From The Armchair: 2019 Has Defeated Me

I give up. There are too many games. Who has time for all this?

Read about the making of BITS in Retro Gamer 201

I wrote about the anarchic 2000s TV show for this month’s issue.

The history of UK video-game magazines

Check out this huge feature in the 200th issue of Retro Gamer.

Help! I don’t know what I’m doing!

Outer Wilds and Graveyard Keeper excel at confusion.

The best games of EGX 2019

Beyond a Steel Sky! Iron Man VR! Eastward! More! All the greatest games from EGX London.

Please sir, why were PCs beige?

It turns out it might have had something to do with Germany.

The ludicrously dangerous Noita is out in Early Access today

A rogue-like in which it is thrillingly easy to do yourself a mischief.

My first impressions of The Sinking City on Switch aren’t great

Wonky combat, crappy frame rates, dull environments. This… is not good.

FAR: Lone Sails review – picturesque loneliness

If David Lynch built a landship.

The update for Control makes a big difference to the frame rates on PS4

Not perfect, but a lot better.

Untitled Goose Game review – HONK HONK HONK HONK

HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK

The Link’s Awakening amiibo is a proper cutie

Hey there little fella.

Control is stunning, but it judders along like nobody’s business on a base PS4

This game is amazing – but I really wish I had the PC version instead.

My surprising love affair with sniping

I cant stop playing Sniper Elite 4.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood review – don’t listen to the doubters

WHAM!

I spoke to the coder behind Super Star Wars on the Super NES

For a massive six-page feature in Retro Gamer.

It’s too hot for VR

One of many excuses I have used to avoid donning the helmet of dreams.