STAR LETTER

Whether it was in the Newsfield office in Ludlow or Future Publishing in Bath, Steve Jarratt spent years reporting on the gaming scene as it went through its most dramatic changes. We join him to look back on a career that includes many beloved and enduring titles, from Zzap!64 and Commodore Format, to Edge and the Official UK PlayStation Magazine

Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic painters, as Carla Passino discovers

BEFORE GEARS OF WAR CEMENTED COVER-SHOOTING AS THE INDUSTRY’S STANDARD, THERE WAS KILL.SWITCH – A BOLD EXPERIMENT THAT MADE DUCKING BEHIND WALLS AS VITAL AS PULLING THE TRIGGER. DEVELOPED FAST AND ON A TIGHT BUDGET, IT QUIETLY BIRTHED MECHANICS THAT WOULD GO ON TO DEFINE MODERN SHOOTERS

Evidence left at the scene suggests the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was the first pornography-driven political assassination

Looking back at Nineties 3D platformers