Tacoma – Gone Home meets 2001: A Space Odyssey
Award-winning studio Fullbright Company returns with another intriguing narrative adventure, this time set on a doomed space station where everything is recorded
Microsoft pays out $10,000 for automatic Windows 10 installation
Company withdraws appeal leaving it liable for $10,000 compensation judgment after botched automatic upgrade
We Happy Few – the indie game about Britain that couldn’t be more relevant
Fancy a thriller about a dystopian UK being destroyed by a vast group hallucination? The timing of this intriguing black comedy that won E3 perhaps couldn’t be better
Sea of Thieves – the pirate adventure that heralds the return of Rare
The developer of Banjo Kazooie returns to its roots with this imaginative open-seas pirate game featuring cannons, grog and accordion jams
Forza Horizon 3 – the mission to create the world’s most beautiful racing game
The driving series hits Australia, bringing 350 new cars to a map twice the size of Forza Horizon 2. But to understand its technical ambition, you’ve got to look up
E3 2016 review: from VR Star Wars to the new Xbox One
The annual LA games expo revealed dystopian futures, post-apocalyptic worlds and the odd funny pirate
Psst, want to flog a turkey like LinkedIn? Well, phone up Microsoft
The purchase of LinkedIn makes no business sense – its ship sailed long ago
Microsoft bets heavily on LinkedIn to secure its place in a world after Windows
At $255 per active user, the social network is an expensive buy, but the tech giant is confident that access to so much personal data will soon pay off
Microsoft licenses cloud services to monitor legalized marijuana sales
Company announces partnership with Kind Financial, a Los Angeles firm that sells computer systems to governments that track legalized marijuana sales
PlayStation boss ‘surprised’ by Xbox Scorpio announcement
Andrew House says PlayStation 4 Neo console isn’t ready to show off yet and Sony will wait until there is enough content to illustrate its benefits
E3 diversity report – so was it a white guy-fest again?
The games industry cliche is that every conference panel is full of stubble-faced white men in suit jackets and T-shirts. Is it true this year?
Microsoft unveils Xbox One S and Xbox One Project Scorpio
Due for Christmas 2017, Project Scorpio will support both virtual reality and 4K HD, as Microsoft positions itself to better rival Sony’s Playstation
LinkedIn bought by Microsoft for $26.2bn in cash
Business-oriented social network site hails deal as ‘a chance to change how the world works’
E3 2016: what’s it really like to go to the world’s biggest games event?
It’s loud, chaotic, expensive and some say increasingly irrelevant – but attending E3 is still a games industry rite of passage
Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst review – welcome return of the running woman
Faith is restored to a visually striking world she deserves in the return of the first-person parkour title – but, as with the original, niggles stop it achieving greatness