Sam White

2 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Robert Leedham |Sam White

All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s been more than eight years since Nintendo’s Switch changed gaming, launching alongside The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and reviving the maker of Mario, Metroid and Pokémon after its Wii U proved a failure of existential proportions. Come 2025, Nintendo’s Switch 2 is more or less overdue. No wonder, it’s already become the fastest-selling console in the company’s history.

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2 weeks ago | gqindia.com | Sam White

For the first 58 years of his life, Hideo Kojima did not think about the fact that one day, he will die. As a boy, growing up in Japan in the 1960s, time seemed still. Even after he turned 30 and created Metal Gear Solid – the 1998 PlayStation classic that pioneered cinematic storytelling in games – he remembers thinking his next three decades would feel just as long as the first. A flash and they went. Then, in 2020, isolated during Covid as he neared 60, he fell seriously ill.

2 weeks ago | gq-magazine.co.uk | Sam White

For the first 58 years of his life, Hideo Kojima did not think about the fact that one day, he will die. As a boy, growing up in Japan in the 1960s, time seemed still. Even after he turned 30 and created Metal Gear Solid – the 1998 PlayStation classic that pioneered cinematic storytelling in games – he remembers thinking his next three decades would feel just as long as the first. A flash and they went. Then, in 2020, isolated during Covid as he neared 60, he fell seriously ill.

Mar 5, 2025 | gq-magazine.co.uk | Sam White

All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. It is a crystalline February day in Stockholm. Snow has piled up on the roadside. Skaters are slinking on the frozen bay in the shadow of an ice-locked cruise liner. And then there’s Josef Fares; sitting in the lobby of his game studio, Hazelight, devouring a chicken salad with carnal ferocity.