Video Games

A look at some of the video games from the past ten years featuring our beloved city.

Charity exhibition at the Mayor’s gaff.

Dishonored largely influenced by London and Edinburgh.

Attention, sufferers of controller-thumb and Wii-wrist: the London Games Festival is here to make your condition even worse. From the 22nd of October to the 2nd of November organisers will be laying on talks, music and exhibitions celebrating the culture of gaming. Many of the …

Sometimes, Londonist stumbles across fantastic new bands by accident. (In this case getting drunk on wine playing video games.) We were introduced to Mitch. And now we’re introducing Mitch to you. Meet Mitch. Who’s in the band? Darren – Vocals, Guitars Jason – Guitars, Vocals …

Arguably the best city in the world for a music fan to live, pop legends come to play in London all the time. Often not only do they come for just one gig, but they stay for a while when they could easily make haste …

As the more hoop-savvy amongst you will know the NBA has beaten the NFL to London by just over a fortnight as the Boston Celtics are scheduled to face the Minnesota Timberwolves in an already sold out pre-season game at the O2 Arena on October …

The term ‘wading knee deep in shit’ has taken on new meaning for residents of Harrow in north-west London. Parents in the Kenmore Avenue area were horrified to discover that the floodwater their children were playing in and near contained sewage waste. Mohammed Ayaiz, whose …

“Non Stop Neurotic Cabaret” is a good tagline to attract our interest but calling a club Big Sexy Land? Well the name enough has put a few of our friends off coming to this great night at The Phoenix on Cavendish Square, merely because they …

If you played video games in the 90s, chances are that you also read Digitiser, Channel 4′s Teletext games magazine. It was renowned not only for its incisive, honest gaming news, but also for the surreal humour of lead writer Mr. Biffo, which was responsible …