Here's an interesting look through video game history from Redditor and Imgur user zadoc, who posts a picture of every control pad he has in his extensive collection.

I have played the Star Wars game, and I have this to say: Oggdo Bogdo can get stuffed.

Sam Porter Bridges, the reluctant star of Death Stranding, is a classic Western hero. His role is to mediate between society and the wilderness. While the remaining population of America is holed up in cities he never gets to visit, Sam braves the eerie land beyond.

I have a problem. Like millions of teenagers before me, I am addicted to Call of Duty. Weirdly, the last time I obsessed like this over Activision’s annual FPS was 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. How has 2019’s Modern Warfare clawed me back? And what does over ten years of extensive hand and brain growth do to a soldier's performance? Time to find out.

League of Legends’ new champion is bonkers. Aphelios, who arrived on the game’s testing servers this week, wields five different weapons, provided to him by his sister, a moon priestess, from her remote location in some sort of moon temple. His kit is so complex that Riot recently put out a 900-word primer to teach players about him before his official debut. According to a former QA tester, however, if Aphelios’ designer had got his way, the Weapon of the Faithful would have been even more unpredictable.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order seems almost guaranteed a follow-up after becoming one of the fastest-selling games in the license’s history. In an announcement Thursday, EA confirmed that Fallen Order is the fastest-selling digital launch for a Star Wars game, and the series’ top-selling PC launch.

One of the best RPGs of the past few years could soon be coming to your tabletop. Earlier this week, Larian Studios and Lynnvander Studios began a Kickstarter campaign for Divinity Original Sin: The Board Game.

The Guardian has a great article today called How Our Home Delivery Habit Reshaped the World. It goes into the logistics side of modern eCommerce, the ways in which it's impacting on our cities and lives, and is well worth a read if you've ever ordered anything online. Halfway through there's a great little nugget about EA's FIFA series, which serves to illustrate just how popular the game is, how loyal its fanbase is, and how Amazon gets it to them so quickly.

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Emiel's message to our Magic: The Gathering Whatsapp group popped up. “Look at this Commander deck I bought. It looks really weird LOL! Should I return these?”

Blizzard hasn’t tried to hide the fact that it’s going very, very dark on Diablo 4. In the game’s announcement trailer, shown at BlizzCon earlier this month, a trio of adventurers were eviscerated, their insides woven into a hideous flesh cape to be worn by the demon Lilith. Minecraft Dungeons doesn’t go quite so hard on the human-entrails-as-fashion vibe, but it’s got almost everything else you might want from a dungeon-crawler.

Here we are. The End was literally the end for many aspects of Fortnite, but mainly we bade a fond farewell to a map we’ve grown to love, hate and know like the back of our hands. Chapter 2 is here, we’re back to season one, and everything has changed. Well, not quite everything, as it turns out, but still: a fresh start.

CD Projekt and Saber Interactive might have sacrificed a little graphical fidelity to get The Witcher 3 running on Switch, but it looks like it was worth it, with a massive spike in UK sales as well as the acclaim of God of War’s Cory Barlog.

During my first year at university, I watched in horror as one of my flatmates drank a horrible concoction of Guinness and some extra-strength vodka they’d purchased from The Ritz. Unsurprisingly, they then proceeded to feel extremely sorry for themselves, spending much of the rest of the evening huddled over the toilet while mumbling in a Scouse accent (they are not Scouse). So I hope you’ll forgive me if I’m unconvinced by The Sims’ ability to capture the authentic British university experience.

If the past few years of mass political protest have taught us anything it’s that, if you really want to stick it to the man, you’d better have a good placard. This weekend, as an estimated one million people took to the streets of London to campaign for a People’s Vote on Brexit, they were joined by the unlikely ally of a horrible goose.

Nintendo’s announcement that a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was in development was one of the high points of E3 2019. So the obvious thing to do, of course, is work out what it would look like if it was announced at E3 1999.

There's lots to Pokémon GO's Halloween event but one thing overshadows it all: Pokémon dressing up as other Pokémon. In the top image we see Bulbasaur wearing a Shedinja costumes, Charmander as Cubone, Squirtle as Yamask, and Pikachu as Mimikyu. Now, I'm just gonna point out that Cubone wears the skull of its dead mother so... well, that's a bit of a weird choice on Charmander's part.

It's easy to forget that the world doesn't run on social media, and nor does social media reflect the world. Ever since the news broke of a Hearthstone player, Chung 'Blitzchung' Ng Wai, using the platform of an eSports tournament to make a political statement about Hong Kong, the fallout has been intense. The player was punished by Blizzard, a decision that sparked internal protests at the developer and much disquiet within the wider gaming community, before a week later this decision was reversed: Blitzchung got to keep his prize money, and the suspension was reduced.

The opening scene of Skyrim has – whether for the reasons Todd Howard and his team wanted or not – become one of the most recognisable in all of videogaming. As you wind your seemingly endless way through the countryside around Helgen, the game’s first line – “Hey, you. You’re finally awake,” acts as your introduction to Bethesda’s enormous RPG.

Wendy’s, the American fast food chain best known for its burgers and lavish helpings of Twitter sass, is branching out into the tabletop RPG market. Announced in a tweet last night, the 100-page handbook for Feast of Legends is currently available to download for free.