Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game – it’s a bold art film | Dominik Diamond

<p>With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur movies</p><p>I spent Valentine’s Day not with my wife but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It’s a new game called <a href="https://doloresentertainment.com/games/speed-dates">Speed Dates – Winter Edition</a>, which I only chanced upon when I searched “Winter Games” on Xbox Live hoping for some Olympics fare. And boy, did I find it!</p><p>The game is in Turkish, with English subtitles. It already feels arthouse; like those films Channel 4 used to show with a <a href="https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/c4pp/press-pack-case-studies/the-red-triangle/">red triangle</a> in the corner of the screen.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/27/speed-dates-winter-edition-full-motion-video-game-subtitles-dominik-diamond">Continue reading...</a>