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All of the amiibo announced at E3 2019

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The Link’s Awakening amiibo is ADORABLE.

Lewis Packwood 14 June 2019 Amiibos

The British celebrities that should be added to Watch Dogs Legion as DLC

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BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOBBY

Lewis Packwood 13 June 2019 Features

Check out my article on Amiga Power in this month’s Retro Gamer

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The MIGHTY BEINGS of Amiga Power DISSEMINATE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION on how the magazine was made.

Lewis Packwood 13 June 2019 Features

What impact will game streaming have on indie developers and publishers?

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I spoke to indies about the effect that Google Stadia and its ilk will have on the industry, in an article for GamesRadar+.

Lewis Packwood 7 June 2019 Features

Rise of the Robots: a dark chapter in gaming history

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I wrote a feature for Kotaku UK on the crushing disappointment of this much-hyped game back in 1994.

Lewis Packwood 31 May 2019 Features

Read my preview of Partisans 1941 in the new PC Gamer

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This new Commandos-alike from Russian devs Alter Games is shaping up brilliantly.

Lewis Packwood 24 May 2019 Features

How Lego Star Wars got started 20 years ago

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I spoke with the design director of Lego Star Wars as part of a feature for Kotaku UK.

Lewis Packwood 21 May 2019 Features

Is the games industry sustainable with so many new releases?

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Hundreds of games are now released every month, while ‘games as a service’ ask ever more commitment from players. Surely something has to give?

Lewis Packwood 10 May 2019 Features

That time when Casio made a game console that printed stickers

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I wrote a feature for Retro Gamer about the Casio Loopy, an utterly fascinating Japan-only 1990s console that was aimed solely at girls.

Lewis Packwood 19 April 2019 Features

Downloading games from the radio and teletext in the 1980s

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And from TV programmes, too, not to mention a sort of proto-Internet run by the Post Office. The 80s were crazy times. I wrote about it all in a feature for Wireframe magazine.

Lewis Packwood 13 April 2019 Features

Hey look, I wrote a book (well, bits of one)

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I wrote a couple of chapters and a few other bits and bobs for Convergence, Charlie Fink’s excellent new book about augmented reality.

Lewis Packwood 11 April 2019 Features

The best games of EGX Rezzed 2019

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Guntastic! Partisans 1941! Afterparty! LUNA! Here’s my pick of the greatest games from this year’s EGX Rezzed.

Lewis Packwood 7 April 2019 Features

Saying goodbye to the Wii U – Part 4: THE FINAL FAREWELL

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This is it, old friend.

Lewis Packwood 3 March 2019 Features

Steam Trawler II: Attack of the Clones

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James once again bravely plunges into the Steam new-release list, and resurfaces clutching an excellent horror point-and-click adventure. He is also covered in anime girls.

James Keen 25 February 2019 Steam Trawler

Welcome to Steam Trawler: if Valve won’t do quality control, I will

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James Keen, Esq. has been trawling Steam’s new releases in search of fresh delights – but mostly turns up rotten stinkers.

James Keen 25 January 2019 Steam Trawler

Our 32 most anticipated games of 2019

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Well, 31 really. I mean Cyberpunk 2077 definitely isn’t going to come out this year, is it? Or is it? OR IS IT?

Lewis Packwood 17 January 2019 Features

How did we do on our predictions for the Christmas game charts?

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Fallout 76, eh? Didn’t see that one coming.

Lewis Packwood 7 January 2019 Features

New amiibo: The beautiful Bayonetta twins

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The two Bayonetta amiibo are real lookers.

Lewis Packwood 30 December 2018 Amiibos

The Ridley amiibo is a thing of beauty

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Samus Aran’s nemesis makes for one of the best amiibo yet.

Lewis Packwood 9 December 2018 Amiibos

UPDATED: My six-page feature on Genesis LPMud is in the new issue of PC Gamer UK!

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My feature on one of the oldest online multiplayer games is in issue 323 of PC Gamer!

Lewis Packwood 2 November 2018 Features

First Impressions: The Light Keeps Us Safe

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I previewed the latest game from the makers of The Signal of Tolva for Kotaku UK. Let’s see how that went.

Lewis Packwood 26 October 2018 Features

EVE Online: Seven Days In New Eden

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EVE Online has a reputation for being a scary place for newcomers. But what’s it actually like to play this venerable MMORPG for the first time?

James Keen 17 October 2018 Features

Video game streaming is going to change everything

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The ‘Netflix of games’ is just around the corner, as broadband speeds are shooting up across the world. I wrote a feature about how streaming will change video games for GamesRadar.

Lewis Packwood 15 October 2018 Features

Saying goodbye to the Wii U – Part 3: Pandora’s Tower

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Pandora’s Tower is an old Wii RPG I’ve been meaning to play for ages, and one of the many games in my Wii U backlog. And it turns out it’s great.

Lewis Packwood 26 September 2018 Features

Saying goodbye to the Wii U – Part 2: Darksiders Warmastered

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I’ve finished Darksiders Warmastered as part of my quest to finish all of my Wii U games. It’s great! Next up: Pandora’s Tower.

Lewis Packwood 21 September 2018 Features

The games that should be on the PlayStation Classic

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What games would you feature on the newly announced PlayStation Classic? I’ve picked out 15 PS1 games that I’d revive in a heartbeat.

Lewis Packwood 19 September 2018 Features, Opinions

Saying goodbye to the Wii U – Part 1

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Join me as I reminisce about Nintendo’s quirky, innovative and yet much maligned console.

Lewis Packwood 16 September 2018 Features

How to deal with your gaming backlog

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Do you have more games than you can possibly play? Is it stressing you out? I’m here to help.

Lewis Packwood 14 September 2018 Features

Boundless, Minecraft, and not having anywhere near the amount of time a game demands

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Boundless is a pretty cool looking Minecraft style MMOG. And frankly I’m never going to have the time to play it.

Lewis Packwood 10 September 2018 Features, Opinions

The best modern Metroidvanias

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Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Chasm, Guacamelee 2… there’s a flood of modern Metroidvanias at the moment, but which are worth your time?

Lewis Packwood 30 August 2018 Best-of Lists, Features

The British companies trying to crack the Chinese video game market

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I spoke to Curve Digital, Coatsink and Freejam about their efforts to publish games in China in an article for Kotaku UK.

Lewis Packwood 8 August 2018 Features

The full story of the one-letter bug that broke the AI in Aliens: Colonial Marines

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I spoke to the modder who discovered this tiny, catastrophic bug in Aliens: Colonial Marines as part of his three-year overhaul of the game.

Lewis Packwood 2 August 2018 Features

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