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The Island: W.H. Auden and the Last of Englishness by Nicholas Jenkins Faber, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 748 Nicholas Jenkins takes, as a point to navigate by in this rich and [...]

Grade: A Remember the mad 1970s TV series Monkey? Here, excitingly, is the closest you'll get to it in videogame form. In a pre-credit sequence, you are the Monkey King, […]

Grade: B Readers of a certain age (mine, roughly) may have fond memories of 1993's Sam & Max Hit the Road - a joyously silly and absorbing twodimensional point-and-click adventure [...]

Writers, I hope we can all agree, should be paid for their work. That's the principle behind the law of copyright, and it has held for more than a century. [...]

Grade: B+ Games can be exciting, puzzling, scary, competitive and - occasionally - moving. Can they be funny? Not often. But this lovingly crafted indie cartoon adventure has a creditable [...]

Grade: B+ Looter-shooters, match-three games, dragons and spaceships... Sometimes you despair of video games doing the same thing again and again--and then a lone developer gets a severe bump on [...]

Strange Horticulture (C) Loop Hero (B+) Marvel Snap (A-) Most of us, once we pass the age when we wash our own underpants, don't play games on a PC or [...]

My wife argues with the children about video games. I argue with the children about video games. The children argue with each other about video games. Consequently, I argue with [...]

Grade: B+ Most video games challenge the player's problem-solving skills, reaction time or hand-eye co-ordination. But a handful of them offer satisfactions of a different sort: the gentlest of difficulty [...]

Grade: A- One thing videogames are surprisingly good at is scaring the willies out of you. Claustrophobia, unease, jump-scares, anxious-making camera-angles... Gamers of my generation will not have forgotten the [...]

Grade: B- There was much to hope for with this game. Its developer is Rocksteady--the studio which gave us the superb Batman: Arkham series. A lot of money was poured [...]

Grade: A Why don't you go outside and get some fresh air instead of playing that stupid game? A) I've been outside, and I didn't like it. And B) there's [...]