More From Edward Smith
Until Dawn: One of the best written horror games and well worth playing this Halloween
Until Dawn is the surprise PS4 hit of 2015 and it has one of the best video game characters of the year.
Oct 30, 2015
What Spectre and whole Bond franchise can learn from N64 classic GoldenEye 007
The James Bond films could learn a lot from its most successful video game outing.
Oct 29, 2015
Ten years on, Team Ico's Shadow Of The Colossus is a powerful take on video game sexism
PS2 classic Shadow of the Colossus examines the male power fantasy.
Oct 22, 2015
Rainbow Six: Siege's lack of single player confirms what we all knew about big games
A loss of focus on single player in shooters shows gaming is becoming less of a storytelling medium.
Sep 30, 2015
Why video games should embrace sex and violence, not shy away from them
Are games that avoid adult subjects as bad as those that treat them with immaturity?
Sep 23, 2015
Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps looks awful but guns still belong in horror games
The latest Resident Evil is far from a horror game, but that doesn't mean guns don't belong in horror.
Sep 18, 2015
Open world games like Mad Max are becoming the bloated fast food menus of this industry
Open world games are never interesting when the player is the focus of everything in it.
Sep 09, 2015
Metal Gear Solid 5: It is time to admit Hideo Kojima is a terrible writer
Hideo Kojima is lauded as a video game visionary auteur, but he can't write for toffee.
Aug 27, 2015
Zombi and Resident Evil: Why zombies in video games will never die
IBTimes UK ponders the undying nature of video game zombies.
Aug 20, 2015
Everybody's Gone To The Rapture review: Boring video game narrative survives the apocalypse
The Chinese Room's follow-up to Dear Esther is one of the year's most anticipated indie games.
Aug 13, 2015
Mirror's Edge Catalyst: Reflecting on script, combat and syle issues that tarnished the original
Ed Smith asks if we are looking back at Mirror's Edge through rose-tinted glasses.
Aug 07, 2015
Gamescom may be open to everyone but games are far from inclusive
Gamescom 2015 opens its doors to everyone next week, but the industry still needs to work on its inclusiveness.
Jul 31, 2015
Call of Duty and Battlefield need a World War 2 resurgence
Now is the right time to return to WW2 in our first person shooters.
Jul 24, 2015
Satoru Iwata: His games offered childlike joy, raw delight and unadulterated pleasure
Nintendo's Iwata always put fun at the heart of his games, helping a generation of people get excited about the medium.
Jul 13, 2015
Video games as art: Stop pandering to audiences and worrying about underlying technology
If video games want to be held up alongside other art forms then they need to stop pandering to their audiences
Jul 09, 2015
Technology in video games like Destiny and Call of Duty sucks the humanity out of stories
Technology is amazing, but in games it can hold back great storytelling.
Jul 02, 2015
Gamers vs Art: Attitudes to video games like Her Story & Sunset are killing this industry
Questioning whether games are games at all and calling creators 'social justice warriors' will kill creativity.
Jun 25, 2015
E3 2015: The Last Guardian PS4 retains Fumito Ueda's artful loneliness from Ico and Shadow of the Colossus
The Last Guardian's re-reveal shows us that Fumito Ueda's vision is still intact.
Jun 17, 2015
E3 2015: The Last Guardian, Shenmue 3 and Final Fantasy 7 make for historic Sony press conference
One of the greatest E3 press conferences of all time.
Jun 16, 2015
We don't need to see the fallout before Fallout 4
Bethesda's impressive Fallout 4 announcement trailer features flashbacks to the time before the bombs fell.
Jun 04, 2015
Resident Evil Zero HD: Why remakes and remasters are killing video game preservation
Video games should be remembered, warts and all, not with glossy HD remakes.
May 29, 2015
Doom 4 should avoid latent psychoanalysis and embrace mindless blockbuster action
Games lately have delved too far into the psyche of characters who are meant to entertain us and Doom 4 should avoid that at all costs.
May 20, 2015
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Is Ubisoft exploiting feminism for easy PR?
New 'Evie' character is nothing more than a cynical marketing tool and will do nothing to advance gender equality in games.
May 15, 2015
Save Konami's P.T. because it's great not because of sexist overhyped Hideo Kojima
The campaign to save P.T is commendable but not if Kojima's name is behind it.
May 08, 2015
Call Of Duty risks getting sucked into the past by going into the future
There are so many real-life stories that would make videogames - we don't need to warp reality.
May 01, 2015
Assassin's Creed: Why Ubisoft's flagship franchise should be killed off
To keep rehashing the same series is to ignore what people respond to in videogames.
Apr 22, 2015
GTA 5 is just a stupid game, PC or not
After two years of playing, reading and writing about Grand Theft Auto V, the best I can think to say is 'it's just stupid.'
Apr 16, 2015
eSports Olympics would damage the image of video games
eSports demand plenty of skill, but doesn't do justice to the artistic and cultural world of video games.
Apr 09, 2015
Germanwings crash: I have depression like Andreas Lubitz - and I'd never dream of murdering 149 innocent people
Daily Mail makes me sick - how can people blame depression for what Andreas Lubitz did?
Mar 27, 2015
Zayn Malik quits One Direction: Parents of 1D fans must treat 'Zayn Pain' seriously
It seems ridiculous that kids are treating Zayn Malik's departure like a death in the family, but in reality it's entirely warranted.
Mar 26, 2015
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