In 007 First Light, Amazon is reimagining the spy for a new generation

After more than half a century, Saturday Night Live, the great American comedy institution, has launched a British version (which sounds like an SNL sketch in itself). Employing 300 people and costing over £2m an episode, it’s a huge gamble. Has it worked?

Lorien Testard spent years writing music for video games that didn’t exist. Then one of them did – and its soundtrack is filling Europe’s arenas

Nyamakop’s game sets cultural thieves on a mission to return treasures housed in the west

Flirty, fun, fashionable… book events are the place to be. Meet the 32-year-old academic driving a new wave of literary parties

A wartime enigma machine forms the basis of Inkle’s elegant and intellectually exhilarating mystery

This simple shooter proves there is still space for small, strange games

Simon Parkin on the video games of the year, from a Japanese quest to a boarding school mystery

Why publications such as Broadsheet are turning the tables on a culture of takedowns

The sequel to the Bafta-winning work about the Nazi Lebensborn programme folds child psychology into its design

This moreish video game, built around a relentless ping pong-style volley, calls for just one more go

This chess-like wargame weaves story and strategy with irresistible poise

PlayStation’s winter blockbuster invites players on a journey of vengeance across 17th-century Hokkaido, while raising questions of cultural ownership

In Fulham, Brett Goldstein is renovating a house; in Hollywood, a career. For the standup who became a leading man, both are works in progress

In a medium dominated by destruction or tussles for territory, it is striking to encounter an allegory for rejuvenation

As a highly successful ghostwriter, Joshua Lisec is an invisible weaver of life stories, for clients whose names he can't reveal

This horror game doesn’t simply employ trauma as atmospheric texture, but engages with the mental architecture of suffering

This quirky simulator is a sly satire of modern dating’s relentless abundance

Nintendo’s eagerly awaited iteration of the world’s favourite game console offers plenty of subtle refinements. All it needs now is a new masterpiece to play on it