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They built their games in spare bedrooms, on secondhand laptops, fuelled by instant coffee and sheer bloody-mindedness. Now they're rubbing shoulders with BAFTA nominees and turning heads across the global indie scene. How did Britain's one-person studios end up punching so far above their weight?
Mar 13, 2026
AAA games now routinely cost British players £74.99 at launch — and the wallets of the nation have had just about enough. With the cost of living still biting and exchange rates doing nobody any favours, we ask whether publishers have finally crossed the line from expensive to outright extractive.
Mar 13, 2026
Loading screens: the uninvited pause in every gaming session that somehow birthed an entire parallel hobby. From brewing tea to existential doomscrolling, we've ranked the nation's favourite ways to fill the void — plus a hall of shame for 2025's worst offenders.
Mar 13, 2026
From Oxford to Edinburgh, a new generation of British game developers is putting homegrown talent back on the global map. With BAFTA recognition surging, Arts Council investment flowing, and a post-pandemic indie scene bursting at the seams, we ask: is this the UK's greatest gaming moment since the days of Rare and DMA Design?
Mar 13, 2026
Xbox Game Pass has been the darling of the subscription gaming world, promising infinite value for a modest monthly fee. But with price hikes landing on UK doorsteps and catalogue cuts quietly trimming the fat, Dot Hargreaves asks whether we're watching the same film we've already seen — just with a controller instead of a remote.
Mar 12, 2026
Something peculiar is happening on Britain's high streets — and it smells faintly of old cartridges and nostalgia. Physical gaming retail is staging a proper comeback across the UK, and it turns out British gamers have been quietly craving something no digital storefront can deliver. We sent Priya down the rabbit hole to find out why.
Mar 12, 2026
Before fast SSDs robbed us of our quiet moments of enforced contemplation, loading screens were gaming's unlikely life coaches. We've ranked the finest, funniest, and most bafflingly useless tips ever to grace a progress bar — and we want your votes on which one deserves a comeback.
Mar 12, 2026
Multiplayer gaming has gone from squinting at a quarter-screen while your mate hogged the good controller to seamlessly fragging strangers across three different consoles simultaneously. It's an incredible glow-up — but somewhere between the pizza grease and the party chat, we may have left something important on the couch.
Mar 12, 2026
The next three months are absolutely stacked with game releases that are threatening to obliterate your social life, your sleep hygiene, and quite possibly your bank account. From thunderous AAA juggernauts to scrappy indie gems that came out of nowhere to steal everyone's hearts, the hype train has officially left the station. Buckle up, because Yuki has done the research so you don't have to.
Mar 12, 2026
From Concord's legendary 11-day lifespan to a growing pile of shuttered online titles, the live service dream is starting to look more like a fever dream. Players have quietly — and not so quietly — started refusing to play along, and the numbers are doing the screaming for them. So is this the beginning of the end for the 'games as a service' gold rush, or just a painful correction?
Mar 12, 2026