A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Video Games
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This week: driving a virtual bus for money, the game that can never be remade, Death Stranding, Bayonetta 3, and Little King’s Story. And BAYONETTA 3.
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A Twitter post on a bizarrely proportioned character in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has generated a surprising amount of venom for something so trivial.
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A Metroidvania all about magnets and creepy towers, with some surprisingly dark storylines.
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Help, my hands are trapped inside a strange mechanical box and I can only get free if you click here now!
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Rive is Two Tribes’ swansong, as the company has sadly decided to cease game development. But is this Switch shoot ’em up a fitting finale?
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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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Could this be the game to cleanse the palate of the disappointing taste of EVE: Valkyrie, or will it make my space madness even worse?
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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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Let the sales begin!
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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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Click here for a free game!
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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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Telltale’s latest, but is it the greatest, or is it the lamest?
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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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VVVVVV – from the creator of indie classics like Super Hexagon and Tiny Heist – finally makes it to Switch. And it’s as wonderful as ever.
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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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If you’re after a Zelda-style game that’s all about the puzzles rather than the combat, Ittle Dew 2+ might be the Nintendo Switch title you’ve been waiting for.
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Super Metroid and a roguelike had a secret love child and just left it on your porch
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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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Definitely the best arthritis/ulcer simulator I’ve ever played.
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Perception is a rare example of narrative horror on Nintendo Switch, with the unique twist that you ‘see’ the world through the eyes (or rather, ears) of a blind person.
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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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A bizarre action-adventure title from the ancient past, with a surprisingly small amount of shooting and an even more surprising amount of lite-RPG elements
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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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Something a bit different for the Nintendo Switch – a 1970s road trip along the Italian coast with fascinating conversations and multiple endings. And jazz fusion!
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I have to confess that I’m a useless statistics junkie, and keep records of everything from the number of video games I have to the number of movies I’ve seen this year. The 3DS comes with a super handy tool for geeky people like me called the Activity Log that for each game records a…
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Is this hand-drawn adventure-platformer worth searching for, or should it just be left to die in the woods?
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