Simon Parkin

Contributor

Simon Parkin is an award-winning writer and journalist from England, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Guardian and a variety of other publications.

Review

Recommended | Saturnalia review - a horrible nightmare in all the right ways

Resident Evil Villa.

Oct. 27, 2022 Simon Parkin

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Review

Quake Arena Arcade review

Rocket fool.

Sept. 28, 2021 Simon Parkin

Review

Kero Blaster review

Blast from the past.

Dec. 15, 2020 Simon Parkin

Feature

Shooters: How Video Games Fund Arms Manufacturers

From marketing guns to young people to selling lucrative licenses, Simon Parkin examines the virtual weapons trade.

May 14, 2019 Simon Parkin

Feature

The boy who stole Half-Life 2

From the archive: the story behind the $250m robbery.

May 14, 2019 Simon Parkin

News

What's behind that disclaimer at the start of Battlefield V's new trailer?

A new turn in the relationship between the gun industry and video games.

June 8, 2018 Simon Parkin

Feature

The SD card and the vintage video game revolution

How modern technologies resurrected old consoles, and are now making them more powerful than ever

March 7, 2018 Simon Parkin

Review

Lost Sphear review

Error: asset_unknown.

Feb. 21, 2018 Simon Parkin

Review

Recommended | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 review

Vivat Rex.

Dec. 8, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Recommended | Fire Emblem Warriors review

Hack and mash.

Oct. 26, 2017 Simon Parkin

Feature

How video game difficulty became a cultural battleground

Hard truths.

Oct. 21, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Essential | Stardew Valley review

Dig for victory.

Oct. 16, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Cuphead review

Hanna-Barbaric.

Oct. 2, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Recommended | Everybody's Golf review

Clap Hanz say yeah.

Aug. 31, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Recommended | Final Fantasy 12 The Zodiac Age review

An absolute gemini.

July 18, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Recommended | Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood review

Samurais vs. Chocobos.

July 10, 2017 Simon Parkin

Feature

Lost in Shibuya

How video games taught me to embrace a night of adventure in Tokyo.

June 10, 2017 Simon Parkin

Feature

Vanquish remains the pinnacle of cover shooters

Sliding into your DIMMs.

May 28, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Birthdays the Beginning review

Jurassic Lark.

May 5, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Recommended | What Remains of Edith Finch review

A house of many rooms.

April 25, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Late Shift review

Night trap.

April 25, 2017 Simon Parkin

Feature

Why Bayonetta is still the brawler to beat

So close.

April 15, 2017 Simon Parkin

Review

Rain World review

Take the weather with you.

March 29, 2017 Simon Parkin

Feature

Everything is the most ambitious catalogue of things ever committed to a video game

The Earth and everything in it.

March 21, 2017 Simon Parkin

Feature

20 years on, Bushido Blade remains a fighting game masterpiece

Just a flesh wound.

March 19, 2017 Simon Parkin