Simon Parkin

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Simon Parkin·Nov 28, 2016

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Islands, as its titular addendum 'Non-Places' insinuates, is a game about those non-descript patches of no-man's land t…

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Simon Parkin·Nov 15, 2016

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Three weeks before Watch Dogs 2's release, hackers co-opted millions of connected devices around the world - principall…

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Simon Parkin·Oct 26, 2016

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Two amnesiacs, apparently orphaned, on a journey to dethrone tyrants, reconcile kingdoms and suffer the niggling indign…

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Simon Parkin·Oct 10, 2016

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Minecraft has a way of tapping into the deepest parts of us: the primordial instinct to survive the night and, once thr…

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Simon Parkin·Sep 5, 2016

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In 1992's Streets of Rage 2 Eddie Hunter, better known to his friends as 'Skate', wore a yellow vest and red rollerblad…

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Simon Parkin·Aug 22, 2016

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Frame the rivalries between Japanese fighting game series as a pugilistic tournament and, for the past few years, Capco…

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Simon Parkin·Jul 19, 2016

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Tokyo RPG Factory's first game offers an elegant counterbalance to Final Fantasy 15. The teams behind each, steered by …

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Simon Parkin·Jul 1, 2016

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When Star Ocean debuted on the Super Famicom 20 years ago the RPG, an American import that Japan made its own with pinc…

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Simon Parkin·Jun 20, 2016

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The nine are, it turns out, extraordinary bastards. Each one of these robots-gone-rogue is taller, quicker and better e…

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Simon Parkin·May 24, 2016

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Lumo is steeped in the nerdish romance of the British 1980s video game development scene. For those who lived through t…

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Simon Parkin·May 16, 2016

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Few video games have been as well served by their box art as the Commodore Amiga's Shadow of the Beast. Roger Dean's ai…

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Simon Parkin·Apr 8, 2016

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Game designers learn about this power early into their careers. The virtual gun remains the most useful tool in the des…

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Simon Parkin·Mar 30, 2016

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To understand rally and, by association, Dirt Rally, a British video game that conjures all of the long-form drama and …

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Simon Parkin·Mar 7, 2016

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Bezier, despite the French title, lifted from the Renault employee Pierre Bézier, who in the 1960s helped teach compute…