A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Author: Lewis Packwood
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Gravity Rush Remastered! Dillon’s Rolling Western! Horizon: Zero Dawn! So many discounts on such great games.
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Welcome to the November 2017 Spiffing Reads Clipstravaganza!
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Until 27th November 2017, you can save 15% at the checkout when you buy Most Agreeable T-shirts and mugs. And now we have BLACK T-SHIRTS, too!
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The Monster Hunter World beta finally persuaded me to join PS Plus – helped by the fact that Amazon is offering 1 year’s membership for £36.85/$39.99.
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That exciting feeling when you uncover a hidden gem down at the local secondhand game shop.
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Wolfenstein II is not only one of the best games of 2017, it’s also weirdly contemporary for a game set in an alternative, Nazi-run 1960s America.
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Sonic returns in a warfare-themed 3D game that let’s players create their own avatar for the first time.
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This week: when Mario released a CD album, a tribute to Runic Games, Terry Cavanagh’s bizarre new game, Mass Effect Andromeda redemption and a beat ’em up with no attacks.
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The rise of digital games and competition from internet retailers spell doom for high street game stores. I wrote a feature for GamesRadar+ on how long game shops have got left and whether there’s anything they can do.
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This week: cockroaches in a frickin’ PS4, Knight Terror, a troll-baiting Mario list, games we need on Switch and goodbye to Miiverse. AND COCKROACHES.
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Numantia is a rare example of a hex-based war strategy game on consoles, in which plucky Celts face off against the Roman empire. Think Asterix without the laughs.
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The developer behind Torchlight, Torchlight II and Hob has been closed by publisher Perfect World, despite producing a run of fantastic video games. Yes, the world is unfair and cruel.
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This week: the press reacts to the closure of Visceral Games, Reddit reveals the designers behind Switch games, RiME gets praised and Sony gets told off.
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The Thargoids popped up recently in Elite: Dangerous, and I talked to a group that’s working out what they want and where they came from. It involves everything from barnacles to genocide, with a bit of torture thrown in for good measure.
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The members of The Manor recount the scariest games they’ve ever played. And there are a few surprises…
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Proceeds from sales of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice on World Mental Health Day were handed over to the charity Rethink Mental Illness in the form of a lovely big cheque.
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This week: Activision patents controversial bots, sublime Zelda propaganda posters, the games that should be on the Game Boy Mini, and a stunning JRPG from Indonesia.
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The trailer for Super Turrican: Director’s Cut is basically unwatchable because of its extremely rapid cuts.
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Psychonauts, Crimson Skies and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time are among the first OG Xbox titles that are supposedly coming to Xbox One.
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EA has closed Visceral Games and declared that it will ‘pivot’ the single-player Star Wars game it was developing into something with more longevity. But are single-player games really dead?
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This week on Spiffing Reads, we kick off with a fevered discussion on what games should be featured on the N64 Mini, should Nintendo deign to make one… A Massive Argument About Which Games Should Be on the N64 Mini (Kotaku UK) This is an awesome discussion of what games should be on the N64…
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Fire Emblem Warriors is out on 3DS and Switch today, and the Tiki and Chrom amiibos have been launched along side it. I’m still not quite sure what I think about them – they are… odd. Let’s take a closer look. Here’s Tiki, in all her eighties anime glory. Her look seems to be based…
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Our story begins with Lucius P. Merriweather making a most bizarre discovery in The Manor.
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This week on Spiffing Reads we start off by looking back on a wonderful video-game version of Blade Runner that’s all but impossible to play nowadays, and sadly is unlikely to be rereleased. Westwood’s Blade Runner is an all-time classic in danger of being forgotten (Eurogamer) The more I read about the 1997 Blade Runner…
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Jesus, is it Christmas already? Feels like I’ve only just put the paddling pool away. Anyway, as has been the tradition for the past few years, there’s a whole range of nerdy Christmas jumpers out there, and these Crash Bandicoot and Destiny jumpers are the latest entries into the fray. I initially mistook the Destiny…
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Universal Paperclips is a browser game in which you play an AI tasked with making paperclips. And it’s rather brilliant. It starts off innocently enough, with you as the AI clicking buttons to make paperclips one at a time, while making sure your manufacturing levels match demand. Then you learn how to automate the process,…
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The Breath of the Wild Zelda amiibo is here! How does she look?
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Ninja Theory is donating proceeds from Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice to charity for World Mental Health Day.
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Classic SNES games including ActRaiser, Chrono Trigger and Earthworm Jim are going to disappear from sale when the Wii Shop Channel finally shuts down in January 2019. The Wii Shop Channel launched in 2006 and there are now around 300 games available through its Virtual Console storefront. The Virtual Console has also appeared on the…
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Things are getting busy here on A Most Agreeable Pastime. We’ve got a cupboard stuffed full of brilliant writers, but we’ve found that there are just too many games coming in for us to review. We need more help. Are you a writer? Do you want to review new games? If so, then get in…
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