Simon Parkin

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Simon Parkin·Oct 27, 2022

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A pretty Sardinian village merges with all kinds of hellish influence in this artful, claustrophic horror. Eurogamer's Saturnalia review.

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Simon Parkin·Feb 2, 2018

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In most video games we play the role of restorer. The world we enter is broken in some way, and we must piece it togeth…

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Simon Parkin·Nov 30, 2017

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Rex is a boy whose virtues are so gleamingly obvious and uncomplicated that they threaten to render him friendless. He …

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Simon Parkin·Oct 18, 2017

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For all its idiosyncratic brilliance, Hyrule Warriors - the first time that Nintendo loaned its characters and mytholog…

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Simon Parkin·Oct 10, 2017

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In the early-noughties the beloved proprietor of the only shop in my grandmother's South Devon village died unexpectedl…

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Simon Parkin·Oct 2, 2017

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In the 1930s, employees at Universal Studio Cartoons devised a game to interrupt the bow-backed routine of inking cels …

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Simon Parkin·Aug 30, 2017

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Few sports labour under as much socio-political baggage as golf. It is a game popularised by royalty, spread by Empire,…

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Simon Parkin·Jul 10, 2017

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30 years and 15-or-so games after its debut, Final Fantasy is not a string of sequels but a solar system of discrete pl…

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Simon Parkin·Jul 3, 2017

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MMOs work to a different evolutionary schedule to most living games: grinding rumbles are first heard deep below the wo…

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Simon Parkin·May 5, 2017

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Birthdays the Beginning's premise has a childlike simplicity: take a snowglobe world and fill it with life. No wonder: …

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Simon Parkin·Apr 24, 2017

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For those who view video games as an adjunct to cinema rather than an alternative, the rise and fall of the interactive…

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Simon Parkin·Apr 24, 2017

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Sometimes, in the aftermath of an unexpected bereavement, a family will leave their departed loved one's bedroom unchan…

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Simon Parkin·Mar 29, 2017

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Pity the slugcat, a creature that has never before managed to step from the shadow of the grander, more celebrated myth…

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Simon Parkin·Mar 2, 2017

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In hopeful pitches delivered to panels of drab-suited, stern-mouthed men, game-makers will refer to their games as bein…

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Simon Parkin·Feb 3, 2017

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'Keep your politics out of our games.' Behind the fretful plea (one which has recently become something of a placard sl…