Latest articles by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Witches, physicists, Tarot readers, game designers, and amateur botanists weigh in on how magic is portrayed in video games
Interview Interview | Play Magazine talks magic with the professionals to see what it means to them, in real life and in game systems
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl's brutal wasteland has grown more thrilling with age
Opinion Opinion | A classic that gets better, and more terrifying, with time
You can pet the animals in After Us, but can you save them?
Features Hands-on impressions of Piccolo’s vast, vivid and powerfully conflicted ecological action game
The rise, fall, and curious afterlife of splitscreen multiplayer
Features Charting the winding path of one of video games' most familiar yet unusual features
From Wordsworth to GTA 5: Exploring the unexpected intersections between video games and poetry
Features This might surprise you, but poetry and video games have inadvertently crossed paths over time
"Still the best opening of all time": Developers look back on Gears of War, the shooter that kickstarted a bold, new era of console gaming
Features Looking back on the game that started it all
"It’s ingrained in humanity to be scared" – How games are challenging the taboos of disability and mental health
Features From intimate indie stories, to AAA blockbusters, disability is a fact of life that games are now addressing from all kinds of angles
