A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Video Games
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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.
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Who will win the fight for Christmas number one?
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Set in the Cold War, this XCOM-a-like strategy game spins a complicated, sometimes bewildering web of espionage, intrigue and layers of game systems.
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My preview feature on Night Call is in issue 322 – and I’m very excited to see my words in print.
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Daedalic’s promising futuristic thriller falls disappointingly flat.
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This classic-style JRPG has an excellent battle system – and invites favourable comparisons with Chrono Trigger.
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You know how people are saying Iconoclasts is one of the best games this year? Yeah, about that…
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Yep, it’s a duck-based, film noir Punch-Out. Holy quack!
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Funny, clever and utterly gorgeous, Unforeseen Incidents has quickly risen to become my favourite ever point and click adventure.
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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.
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This Rogue-like Metroidvania is rock hard but thoroughly enjoyable. Reanimated corpses have never been so much fun.
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Four fantastic Metroidvania games are being released this month: Dead Cells, Chasm, Death’s Gambit and Guacamelee 2.
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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.
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Imagine a game where you could print out the trophies you win in 3D…
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The NEXT update completely transforms No Man’s Sky – I wrote about my experiences with it for PCGamesN.
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Don’t let its cutesy looks fool you – Bomber Crew is a hard-as-nails wartime experience.
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OnRush has sunk at retail – have open-world games like GTA killed off arcade racers?
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The Gravity Rush 2 servers have shut down just a year and a half after the game’s release. I spent the last night sampling as much online stuff as I could.
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With just two days to go until the server shutdown, I haven’t even scratched the surface of Gravity Rush 2’s online content.
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I wrote a feature for Eurogamer on the Casio Loopy – a console for girls with a built-in sticker printer.
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Six years after its release, I’ve finally played Gravity Rush. And it’s an absolute belter.
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I chatted with the creator of the RPG that Cyberpunk 2077 is based on in a feature for PCGamesN.
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It’s hockey crossed with Zelda and a dash of Street Fighter II – and it’s a lot of fun with a friend.
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The excellent dungeon crawler Moonlighter is getting a ton of free updates – and there are also rumblings about an incoming Switch version.
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Co-created by an ex-Disney animator, Blacksad depicts a beautiful film noir-inspired world of anthropomorphic animals. And soon it’s going to be a game.
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Moonlighter is a dungeon crawler mashed up with a retail game – and it’s utterly fantastic.
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The crazy thing is that this beautiful game is being made in a garden shed by two completely self-taught developers.
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The Banner Saga 2 improves on the battles of the previous game, but like the first one, it’s really all about the story.
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Pode is a co-op Nintendo Switch game with a cutesy looks but fiendishly difficult puzzles. And you can hold hands. Awww.
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I spoke to academics on both sides of the gaming disorder debate in a feature for GamesRadar – and both sides recognise that gaming addiction is a problem.
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Amid all the ultraviolence and samey sequels, a few genuine delights peeked out from behind the curtain at E3 2018. WARNING: THIS LIST DOES NOT INCLUDE CYBERPUNK 2077.
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Superstar designer Suda51 told me all about Travis Strikes Again on Nintendo Switch, as well as remakes of Killer7 and Flower, Sun and Rain – and possibly Michigan: Report From Hell.
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