free download call of the wild beginner guide

The latest Apple, Android and Windows handsets feature powerful processors, large displays and vast app stores crammed with games (you’ll have more choice if your phone is the latest model and your operating system is up to date). If you already have a smartphone or tablet, then great, you’ve got a games machine. Photograph: UPI / Landov / Barcroft Media What you need to play video games Not wasting his life … Avid gamer Snoop Dogg.

Basically, if you’re happy to watch TV for three hours a day or continually peruse celebrity gossip websites and social media streams, you cannot – with any degree of self-awareness – call video games a waste of time. Despite popular stereotypes, games are sociable and inclusive, with large, supportive communities and some brilliant events.

Games have been shown to improve hand-eye coordination, cognitive flexibility, decision making, even vision. Games are respected enough for Bafta to accept them into its remit, enough for Moma to put a range of titles into its permanent collection, and enough for major art spaces like the Barbican and the Grand Palais museum in Paris to run exhibitions. Yes! The medium has matured hugely over the last five years, and there is a vast range of experiences available, from big blockbusting open-world adventures about marauding gangsters, to teeny, highly personal indie games about coming out. So for all the potential gamers out there who are thinking about taking up a joypad but don’t know where to start, or which games to try, or what a joypad looks like, here is a quick guide:

Free download call of the wild beginner guide