There’s a Portuguese phrase you’ll be hearing a lot over the next few months: o jogo bonito. No one is sure who first coined the phrase ‘the beautiful game’ to refer to football, but in Brazil, host of the 2014 World Cup and a country where only the Catholic Church can rival the sport in popularity, football and beauty are a natural pair. For your average Brazilian connoisseur, football is not...
With every theorised apocalypse – biblical, nuclear or otherwise – comes the inevitable question of, ‘How would you survive in the wasteland?’ Set 200 years after global nuclear destruction, open-world role-playing game Fallout places this question of macabre fantasy at its core. With well over 30 million units sold to date, and with the soon-to-be-released Fallout 76 offering new, innovative...
Losing weight can often be a struggle, and is rarely fun, but that could be about to change. Researchers from Drexel University are developing a gaming app they think could help people “control unhealthy eating habits and ultimately lose weight”. The app, which would be in the form of a computer game, is designed to improve inhibitory control – the part of the brain that...
Imagine that four handsome, successful men are romantically pursuing you. There’s Li Zeyan, a strong but cold CEO; Zhou Qiluo, a sunny boy band-type; Xu Mo, a brilliant scientist; and Bai Qi, a special forces police officer who’s always at your beck and call. Oh, and he can also fly. Such is life in Love and Producer, a mobile game that has become a surprise hit in China, attracting millions of...
Since its launch in 2020, the PlayStation 5 has been ridiculously difficult to get a hold of. Supply chain issues stemming from the coronavirus pandemic have brought the production of Sony’s latest games console to a near-standstill. Uncoupled review: The jokes feel like stabs at relevance that have already started going staleThankfully, the stock situation has improved massively in recent...