At first, it’s not obvious. A Piranha Bites RPG ditty looks nothing like the brilliantly bleak Blasphemous. But look a bit harder, then go down to the library and borrow any random Tintin, Asterix and Obelix, or Diabolik comic, and you’ll see that it they all have a certain je ne ses quoia that makes them quintessentially European. And I love it.
Author: iamsirgaulian
When I sit down and think about it, my gaming habits have been mostly shaped by option value. So is it time to rethink how I buy videogames?
A couple of weeks ago I travelled 1500 kms to see 1990’s alt-rock legends Smashing Pumpkins, Jane’s Addiction, and Australia’s own pub punks Amyl and the Sniffers, live. And it had me thinking: is there a video games equivalent of live music?
I don’t play online games. There was about a month there in 2010 where Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on the trusty PlayStation 3 was the Sandy to my Danny Zuko. And it’s about to fly away.
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Two racing games and a rotary engine
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