Educational and interactive experience design firm ESI Designs is setting up team games in bars and pubs to promote a more social approach to the future of gaming. With the pub industry losing customers, could integrating video games into venues revive drinking culture?

Activity drinking used to involve a game of pool at a bar or a few pints at the bowling alley. But venues and event organisers are now offering good value and a full evening of entertainment by combining food, booze and social games of bingo, ping pong and crazy golf – all in one location.

Urban populations may be growing, but with an abundance of green space, fresh air and peace and quiet, there are still plenty of reasons to live outside of the city. Canvas8 sat down with 20 Britons to find out exactly what they love about their villages, small towns and suburbs.

Pubs have had a torrid time in recent years; roughly 20% have closed across the UK over the past decade as people opt for cheap booze from supermarkets, while many Gen Yers are spending their money elsewhere. Is there anything that can save this British institution, or is time for last orders?