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Video Games, Victorian Style
Category: News
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Just had to share these sweet Monster Hunter World skills.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beloved indie game Retro City Rampage is getting a fancy retail edition for its Switch launch, published by Vblank Entertainment themselves. The collector’s edition comes with a keychain, soundtrack, manual, 3D glasses and game cartridge. But best of all, the cover is reversible, the other side revealing a funky Master System inspired design. Pre-orders go…
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Can’t bloody wait! I’ll post my first impressions as soon as I can. Personally, I’ll be booting up Starfox 2 first, probably followed by Secret of Mana – I missed that JRPG first time around, so it will be great to finally give it a whirl. What games are you lot most looking forward to?
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Stay a while and listen while I break from my usual M.O. of reviewing hoards of games to recount an offbeat tale of railguns and romance. It was some time ago, so far back that I can’t quite recall the exact year, but I can narrow it down to near the end of the previous…
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What do you get if you cross the iconic Sonic Youth album Goo… …with the similarly iconic PlatinumGames JRPG Nier: Automata? This utterly awesome T-shirt, that’s what: I. Love. It. It arrived from the US yesterday, along with a whopping customs charge – but it was worth the money. If you want one of your…
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The other week, I wrote an article about why everyone seems to hate GAME, and I mentioned that about the only other remaining high street video game chains in the UK are CEX and Grainger Games. But I’d never actually set foot in a branch of Grainger Games until now. Grainger Games started in 1996…
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Today I’m going to talk to you about The Witness again. I spoke very briefly about it once before, but this time I’d like to take that analysis a few steps further, as well as discussing what it all means about why and how we play games, why this game has attained the dreaded label…
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You may have noticed it’s been a bit quiet in The Manor lately. Sir Gaulian announced his retirement in February (although he’s promised to pop back in to say hello when the fancy takes him), and I’ve been riotously busy with work, to the point where all blogging duties have ceased. However, things are a…
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Finally, more than two years after its launch, I’ve bought a PS4. Hurrah! After blitzing my way through my backlog and selling a ton of games, I had the cash to hand. I spotted a sweet deal – a 500GB PS4 with No Man’s Sky, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Force Awakens Blu-ray and…
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Happy Birthday us! On this very day five years ago, Sir Gaulian and I first embarked on our grand Victorian gaming adventures – and what a merry time it’s been. Many of the Victorian stylings have been dropped along the way, and the ambitious Choose Your Own Adventure game I started to create using nothing…
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A Most Agreeable Pastime turns five in June and I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve built here. I’m lucky to have an incredibly talented co-author on whoms coat tails I have so joyously ridden on for half of a decade. For every post I’ve written I’ve certainly become a better writer, due in no small part…
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