Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.>

(Out Of This World if you are not tea-swilling, toothless Brit who cleans chimbleys in old lahndahn tahn). SPOILERS for a 26-year-old videogame follow.

The first time a game broke my heart, or at least left me in a state of shocked disbelief. (more…)

Hey come watch Rab Florence’s new weekly video series, made just for us. Part one is here, part two is here.

In the third part of this series about games, time and loss, Rab remembers Another World.

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Another World’s 20th Anniversary Edition is now available on Steam. In 1992, when I first played it, discovering something so beautiful and strange contained on two disks seemed like an act of science fiction in itself, and realising that I can now download the entire thing in about four seconds is astonishing. Eric Chahi’s enduring voyage is a masterwork of visual communication and companionship, and it has grown in my memory over the two decades since its original release.>

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