What’s the concept: Players receive a themed prompt and build their best creation in Minecraft within a set time, often showing creative problem-solving and design skills. Why it’s engaging: Themes ...

Though not as venerable as novels based on movies, novelizations of video games have been a sturdy publishing genre for decades. Assassin’s Creed, Halo, Donkey Kong Country—all have been rendered in ...

Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

Many video games require players to plan ahead and make decisions under pressure. Strategy games especially encourage this.