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Games create phenomenal environments, vast landscapes and immersive surroundings to discover as you carve your path through the story. All this exploring can be thirsty work.

Games create phenomenal environments, vast landscapes and immersive surroundings to discover as you carve your path through the story. All this exploring can be thirsty work .

Games create phenomenal environments, vast landscapes and immersive surroundings to discover as you carve your path through the story. All this exploring can be thirsty work though, galavanting around the broad plains of Red Dead works up a mighty craving for a beverage, a lust for liquor.

How CD Projekt Red added Polish to every detail of the game world.

Cards Against Humanity is everywhere. Beloved by your non-gaming friends, you’ll find a copy of it in most pubs and social circles as an accessory to drinking the night away.

Before lockdown started, I played a whole lot of board games. I would meet with friends numerous times a week to get my fix, visiting my local board game café more often than I’d like to admit, and like most board gamers I enjoyed the process of learning a new game with pals.

“The rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience”

Diary of a Warlord: Tabletop gaming in lockdown

Some time ago, one of the things that seemed worth discussing was the rising coffee prices and ever more elaborate cafés popping up in cities around the world. I found myself sitting in some kind of Japanese arcade-inspired cocktail bar in Dalston, the heart of the Hipster community of London.

There are 1000 arcade games in my local burger joint. It is obscene, to the underemployed 32-year-old I have become, that there be so many distracting colours concentrated in one place.

If you’re anything like me and love to scroll aimlessly through categories on Twitch, you may have noticed a couple of odd ones out. Games that catch your attention.

When you were a kid, lying on your front on the living room carpet, playing with your green plastic army soldier set, what was your preferred machine gun noise?

It is 17 March and I am pinballing down the high street in the rain buying last minute essentials.
The weekend previous had seen a bunch of large social event games cancelled due to covid-19
and people are hoarding toilet paper, eggs, pasta and hand wash as we realise the country
would soon be going into lockdown.

Like a lot of things in life, EToo started out because of petty professional jealousy.

How video games were used as a social currency for a bunch of military brats growing up in Germany.

Legend had it there was a black cab rank by Kings Cross that housed an arcade machine that the best gamers in London would use. We tried investigating with… varied results.