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Latest Articles

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 shortlist — from terrorism to Tennyson

The lives and minds of writers are at the forefront of this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist, which also offers accounts of the rise of modern terrorism, the story of slavery in the Ottoman Empire and the pilgrimage of a lone wolf across the faultlines of Europe.

By Lucy Reade
2nd October 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Are you ready to relive teenage angst in a video game?

‘I hope the player feels as stressed as I did in high school,’ says ‘Consume Me’ creator Jenny Jiao Hsia about her weight obsession story.

By Tom Faber
30th September 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Hate your job? Try running a virtual supermarket

Recent years have brought a flood of retail simulation games — but what’s the allure of working after hours?

By Tom Faber
20th September 2025 • Financial Times

A shared future: the age of humanoid robots

[VO artist - video] UBS partner content video on the future of humanoid robots

By Nellie de Goguel
17th September 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: After six years of silence and hype, is Silksong worth the wait?

The follow-up to 2017’s popular ‘Hollow Knight’ has broken many gaming industry rules, including marketing and pricing.

By Tom Faber
9th September 2025 • Financial Times

Are we spoiling the kids?

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By Isabel Woodford
6th September 2025 • Financial Times

Invisible wars: the path to digital resilience

[Exec producer - full campaign] This PC campaign explores European autonomy, innovation and position on the "frontlines" of today's geopolitical landscape.

By Nellie de Goguel
4th September 2025 • Financial Times

The power of risk

[Exec producer - full campaign] This partner content series looks at how organisations can turn risk into opportunity.

By Nellie de Goguel
4th September 2025 • Financial Times

FT Audience Barometer Volume 7

[Exec producer - data scrolly] Welcome to the 7th edition of the FT Audience Barometer. During a year marked by economic uncertainty and geopolitical upheavals, our FT audience survey sent out in Q1 '25 saw more than 900 FT readers sharing their perspectives on global markets, business priorities and the …

By Nellie de Goguel
4th September 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Sword of the Sea and the secrets of mastering movement in video games

What makes interactive motion so satisfying? This balletic indie adventure is the latest title to experiment.

By Tom Faber
3rd September 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Gaming enters its period drama era — but does historical accuracy matter?

The sumptuous detail of titles such as ‘Mafia: The Old Country’ is about its immersiveness rather than authenticity

By Tom Faber
23rd August 2025 • Financial Times

Bolivia votes ruling leftists out of presidency after 20 years

Country set to swing to right in run-off vote as soaring inflation contributes to first loss for MAS in two decades

By THOMAS GRAHAM
18th August 2025 • Financial Times

Bolivia divided in election run-up as ruling party implodes

Leftwing government’s infighting and deepening economic crisis boost opposition candidates

By THOMAS GRAHAM
13th August 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Punk philosopher Paul B Preciado on the true meaning of ‘dysphoria’

In a quiet Parisian square, the radical writer proposes a new way of understanding the world.

By Tom Faber
9th August 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Death Stranding 2 game review: this blockbuster sequel is bigger, better — and weirder

The latest creation from ‘Metal Gear Solid’ maker Hideo Kojima expands and extends its strange, divisive predecessor.

By Tom Faber
5th August 2025 • Financial Times

The FT Reader

[Exec Producer - data insights dashboard] The FT Reader is the first interactive platform built from the FT Global Reader Survey — based on nearly 12,000 responses across every region and format. The brief: to create a data-driven digital dashboard, using the survey results, that would pique the interest of …

By Nellie de Goguel
4th August 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Is the Nintendo Switch 2 worth buying for Donkey Kong Bananza?

The new 3D platformer satisfies two primal gamer desires: to feel clever, and to smash things.

By Tom Faber
28th July 2025 • Financial Times

The madness of making a wedding cake

Move over bridezilla, this is bakezilla’s show now

By Elinor Davies
26th July 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Pac-Man returns as a devourer of corpses

With an abundance of blood and violence, ‘Shadow Labyrinth’ is the latest video game to show how adaptable characters can be.

By Tom Faber
10th July 2025 • Financial Times

How Italian Brand Superlativa Is Turning Pearl Waste into the Latest Luxury Material

By Amy Wakeham
1st July 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: The primal pleasure of survival games

‘The Alters’, in which you control a team of clones, is the latest in a genre that speaks to our need to master an environment.

By Tom Faber
25th June 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Do games have a sex problem?

The new Grand Theft Auto looks set to feature a sincere portrayal of intimate romance. About time, says Tom Faber.

By Tom Faber
14th June 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: In praise of gaming’s eccentric auteurs

‘To a T’, which casts you as a schoolboy with no elbows, is rare for being the work of a single-minded creator.

By Tom Faber
10th June 2025 • Financial Times

FT HTSI | November 2024

By Kira Richards
1st June 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Feel the Sound at the Barbican review — a playground of sounds and vibrations

London exhibition offers a joyful array of interactive and immersive sonic experiences.

By Tom Faber
26th May 2025 • Financial Times

Former US army green beret becomes Trump’s man in Mexico

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world includes a quote and insights from me: A former US army colonel arrives on Thursday to start work as his country’s ambassador to Mexico as Washington puts intense pressure on its neighbour to get a grip …

By Earl Anthony Wayne
15th May 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Is there life beyond The Sims, 25 years on?

The game has been played by 500mn people it began, but new competitors are threatening to steal its crown.

By Tom Faber
10th May 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Will AI be the hero or villain of gaming?

For players it could turn games into living worlds, but many developers believe machine learning is no match for human-crafted experiences.

By Tom Faber
2nd May 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: The view on Dungeons & Dragons from London's new role-play tavern

D&D is thriving, with hit video games, movies, TV series and now a dedicated playing venue for fans.

By Tom Faber
30th April 2025 • Financial Times

Financial Times: Is there such a thing as a British video game?

A new wave of indie developers is playing on a quirky sense of national identity, featuring flat caps, badgers and lashings of tea.

By Tom Faber
18th April 2025 • Financial Times