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There is one moment in the Mario games when the music suddenly rattles off at double speed with no warning at all. For a few seconds the whole scre...

A hundred coins and the counter flips over into an extra life. Hardly any game has made collecting loose change as satisfying as Super Mario, and a...

The Mandalorian has barely settled into the cockpit before his small passenger reaches for the silver ball on the control lever and calmly unscrews...

An empire that administers an entire galaxy turns out to consist mostly of official channels: reports going up, orders coming down, endless corrido...

Some video game landscapes sit so firmly in your head that you could still sketch them decades later: pixelated hills, a chequered floor, palm tree...

A desk is basically a straight line: the start on the left with the first coffee, the finish on the right with the end of the working day, and in b...

In these games a single golden ring is your entire life insurance: take a hit while you still have one and you get straight back up, with the rings...

There is that one moment in a battle when your opponent sends out their last Pokémon and the thing does nothing but grin. Gengar has had that routi...

In 1980 a new cabinet suddenly stood in the arcades, with a yellow circle of endless appetite racing through a maze while four colourful ghosts cha...

“Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle.” Whole generations of players have heard that line from Toad, usually right after a level ...

Mario has rammed his head into those yellow cubes from below countless times, always trusting that a coin, a mushroom or something even better woul...

Nobody forgets their first night in Minecraft. The sun goes down, somewhere a zombie groans, spider eyes glow in the bushes, and then that quiet hi...

In Minecraft everything starts the same way: you punch a tree, collect wood and dig into the nearest hill. Three hours later there is a complex wit...

Mine sand, set down a furnace, add coal and wait. At the end glass blocks tumble out and the dirt hut finally gets windows. Anyone who has ever bui...

A round slab of Vibranium flies across the room, bounces off three walls and lands back in the hand: the shield of Steve Rogers is probably the onl...

Above the Strip of New Vegas stands a tower where nobody has won a game in two hundred years: the Lucky 38 sits there dark and locked while the neo...

There is that one moment in Fallout: you climb into the power armor, the hatch shuts behind you with a heavy hiss, your whole field of view turns i...

In Fallout: New Vegas you do not just collect bottle caps, you collect rumours. One of them refuses to die: gather enough Sunset Sarsaparilla caps ...

Two hundred years after the bombs, cooking in the Wasteland mostly means opening a can. Three brands still made it onto every pantry shelf in Fallo...

Mastering a breathing style in Demon Slayer takes two things above all: solid footing and plenty of room. Tanjiro grinds away on the mountain for m...

One wheel, one big eye and a mouth with no pause button: Claptrap is the robot nobody in Borderlands ever ordered and everybody drags along regardl...

In the world of Borderlands there is exactly one symbol everybody reads at a glance: the circle with the jagged triangle inside it. It marks a Vaul...

There is that one moment in Cyrodiil nobody ever forgets: the sky turns red, the ground tears open, and out of the rock grows a burning gate with a...

The lid of a laptop is the coat of arms of our age: whatever is stuck on it says more about the owner than any profile picture ever could. Spot a s...

When Final Fantasy IX arrived, it felt like a small rebellion: away from motorbikes and skyscrapers, back to clanking suits of armour, a black mage...

In the Mushroom Kingdom, one question has been at the heart of everything for decades: who will rescue Princess Peach from Bowser's clutches this t...

In Minecraft, one single thing separates the casual digger from the true pro: the diamond pickaxe. Once it's finally in your inventory, you knock y...

Nobody forgets their first night in Minecraft. As soon as the sun sets over the block world, zombies and creepers crawl out of the darkness, and yo...

Where Mario leaps for glory and the princess, only one thing counts for his nasty rival: gold. Wario, the garlic-loving muscleman with the jagged m...

No Pokémon is as famous as Pikachu: the red cheeks, the long ears with black tips and that irresistibly curious look have made the little electric ...

Anyone who's ever survived a night in Minecraft knows that uneasy feeling when the sun goes down and somewhere in the dark a Creeper hisses. If you...

There's that one moment in Minecraft no player ever forgets: you're calmly building your house, you hear a faint hiss and then it goes boom. The Cr...

Hardly any sound is burned as deeply into gamers' memory as the satisfying “bloop” of Mario hopping into a green pipe. For decades, these Warp Pipe...

Anyone who's ever picked Squirtle in a Pokémon game knows: that's the choice of calm, cool minds. The little turtle Pokémon soaks its opponents, du...