A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Author: Lewis Packwood
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The latest in the Total War line is a wonderful retelling of the story of Alfred the Great. Although if you’re feeling unpatriotic, you can smite Britons by playing the Vikings as well.
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Terraforming Mars is coming to a PC near you in 2018, with all of its shonky public-domain artwork intact. Depending on your perspective, this is either a very good thing or a very bad thing.
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This beautiful ‘micro-RPG’ from One Bit Beyond may look cute, but it holds a fearsome challenge. If your character dies, they’re gone for forever – and you lose almost everything.
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State of Mind is a promising techno-thriller from point and click experts Daedalic Entertainment, with a distinctive low-poly look.
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Tom Clancy died in 2013, but his brand lives on. In fact, Ubisoft has the right to use his name on video games in perpetuity. I wrote a feature on this unusual situation for PCGamesN.
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Until midnight on 18th April, you can get 20% off Most Agreeable T-shirts and mugs. Hurry!
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Phogs! Smoke and Sacrifice! Unforeseen Incidents! Dead Cells! Regular Human Basketball! Metamorphosis! Hipster Cafe Simulator! Hyper Sentinel! Roll up, roll up to see the best indie games on offer at Rezzed 2018!
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They say never meet your heroes. Just stand a few feet away from them instead and stare with your mouth open.
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It’s halfway through day one, and the coffee has stopped working.
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The video game Dandara is full of symbolism and strange references – but what does it all mean? I asked the developers, Long Hat House, about the thinking behind their metroidvania masterpiece.
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I”ll be at EGX Rezzed for the whole weekend – but I’m already worrying how I’m going to fit everything in. If you’re going to be at the show, come say hi!
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It feels like I only just got my PS4. I’m in no rush to splash out on a brand new console.
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Skating horses in Second Life, an unstoppable virus in World of Warcraft and the one-letter mistake that stuffed the AI in Aliens: Colonial Marines – I sought out some funny bug stories for a feature in PCGamesN.
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This golf-like puzzler for PS4, Switch and Vita is entertaining, but it feels out of place on the big screen.
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I spoke to employees at Grainger Games to find out what they’ve been going through – and what they plan on doing next.
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It’s all gone, just like that. Grainger Games has shut its remaining stores. And it’s another grim disappointment to add to the hardships of North-East England.
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Grainger Games is in trouble – and there are worrying signs about UK video game retailers in general.
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Dandara is a challenging metroidvania title with a Brazilian twist – and the title character has a very unique way of getting about. No simple walking for this lady.
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The Long Reach is an excellently written game in the vein of point and click adventures of old. But thankfully the days of pixel hunting are long past.
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In the early 1990s, BattleTech Centers – later redubbed Virtual Worlds – featured fully enclosed mech cockpits that put pilots into 3D deathmatches against players across the world.
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This week: the definitive ruling on whether it should be Black Ops IIII or IV, a massive mushroom beetle is found in No Man’s Sky, a man plays Nintendo Switch using a 1986 pocket TV, and where it all went wrong for Atari.
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What are you actually purchasing when you buy virtual property in a game like Star Citizen? I spoke to a lawyer to find out what the legal implications are in a feature for PCGamesN.
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This game is just so damn good I can’t stop playing it.
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This week: the amazing Papers, Please short film, what Lucas Pope did next, the disco-tastic turn-based tactics game All Walls Must Fall, a secret trick in Super Mario Bros. 3, and Donald Trump targets video games after school shootings.
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The first EA Original from indie studio Zoink is a magical forest adventure with a heavy emphasis on exploring and discovering things by yourself. And purple.
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I couldn’t resist blagging a few more amiibo in a recent Argos sale. My name is Lucius, and I’m an amiibo addict.
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I wrote a feature for Kotaku UK on the changes to GAME’s Reward Card and what they say about the retailer’s future strategy.
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This 2007 PS3 RPG from now-defunct Japanese developer Game Republic really was something special – and it’s a criminal shame that it never got the sequel it deserved.
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Burnout is coming back! A remastered version of Burnout Paradise is set for launch on 16th March, with a PC version heading along later in the year.
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Forma.8 was recently given away on PS Plus, and this metroidvania-but-with-spaceships has quickly become a firm favourite in The Manor.
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This week: the Nintendo Switch isn’t breaking records in the UK, Celeste helps out with mental health, Sleep Is Death deserves a reboot, a Twitter bot unearths a lost game, and why cheating was cool.
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