Gareth Damian Martin

The 2010s was the decade in which video-game story-telling became self-aware

The forthcoming mobile app wants to carry the transactional logic of video games into our unconscious minds

As predictions of climate catastrophe become realities, there has been a shift in game-making, from grandiose blockbuster ‘Anthem’ to the emotionally-charged ‘Sea of Solitude’

The V&A’s annual conference ‘Parallel Worlds’ revealed a medium battling with the formal and the personal

In a medium where ‘flow’ and ‘golden moments’ are designers’ goals, the elegiac ‘Vane’ is decidedly not like other games

There is no violence in games, only its representation – but a suffragette-beating controversy demonstrates that videogame violence is not without meaning

A new exhibition addresses the impregnable fortress of technical detail and corporate hyperbole in game design

Nods to the game in World Cup celebrations show how dance has gone viral – but unwittingly instrumentalized for commercial interests