How do I hate you? Let me list the ways.

Spec Ops: The Line considered as an ideological intervention in the struggle for gaming’s soul. First published in Marx21.

Hey, work in the games industry in Scotland? How about a study games-related subject? According to DC Research, operating under the auspices of Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise, you probably don’t exist, and if you do, your work certainly isn’t worth anything.

For those of you who don’t know, the government is currently trying to pass some extremely troubling legislation that will give the state access to your personal communications, without even the fig-leaf of judicial accountability provided by the need for a court order.

Staff at GAME Group stores in Ireland have kicked off an occupation over the company’s abrupt dismissal of its hundreds of employees in the country. Staff member Ben Lamb O’Sullivan, formerly employed in the Monaghan branch of the specialist video game retailer, posted images of...

Deep, cogent and engaging — and refreshingly free of pretension. Not usually the first words that spring to mind when examining an artist’s justification for the format of their own work, but in the case of Banksy, it might be worth a read.