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Xbox Series Hex: Why Won’t Xbox’s Big Game Problem Go Away?
The Ratings Game: AMD stock ends week higher as post-earnings loss erased by Microsoft AI hopes
This game might have the worst name ever, but it’s actually pretty fun
Over 1M people have bought our favorite open world game of 2023 so far
Oh, bother: Winnie the Pooh gets the bloodlust again in this Eldritch horror game set in the Hundred Acre Wood
Redfall’s counterintuitive traversal solution might just be the best thing about the game
Layla’s blood is type O negative, which is how you know her goth phase is never going to end. And given that knowledge, it’s no surprise her telekinetic powers should manifest the way they do. Her personal shield is an umbrella of the kind Jenna Ortega carries in posters for Addams Family reboot Wednesday. And her traversal skill is a spooky, spectral elevator – the type you might take to visit David S Pumpkins, or Leo’s dead wife in Inception. Then there’s the vampire ex-boyfriend: both Layla’s ultimate ability and the ultimate tribute to Twilight.
It’s the trademark ‘ding!’ of the elevator that’s stuck in my head, though, even after finishing my Redfall review and finding Arkane’s latest FPS wanting. Layla’s lift is a leftfield, bizarre and truly memorable way to get around.
It works thus: at any time, cooldown permitting, Layla can pick a flat surface at short-to-midrange and summon a translucent, pink-purple rectangle that is, unmistakably, an elevator. It’s got one of those Bostwick gates you see in creepy old hotels, with the metal lattice that slides across to let you in or out. Not that Layla uses the door: this being a ghostly elevator, she walks straight through the shimmering membrane and is fired, suddenly, high into the air.
Ice hockey goes roguelikelike in this early access indie game
Arcadey ice hockey action slams into roguelikelike runs with Tape To Tape, out now in early access. Imagine ‘NHL 94 meets Hades’ and you have a vague sense. Across a run, you travel a strange land playing hockey matches and earning upgrades to boost your team with better stats and whole new abilities. It’s an interesting idea and quite a silly game, with a daft tone and some cheery ultraviolence.
What’s the best game that’s uncomfortably pro-monarchy? The Best Games Ever Show Episode 50
Welcome to the Best Games Ever Show episode 50: The best game that is uncomfortably pro-monarchy.
Video games are absurdly monarchist. Nintendo’s biggest franchises both have you running around after a princess. Final Fantasy is littered with royals showing up as quest givers, party members, and protagonists. Fable III is entirely about seizing your divine right to rule, and leads to an infamous sequence where you are tasked with deciding the fate of the kingdom through a series of binary decisions: the point of the sequence is, arguably, to show how difficult it is for a sovereign to keep all of their subjects happy and/or alive. For the most part, video game monarchies are treated sympathetically: the medium plays host to more pro-Royal sentiment than the home stands at Ibrox.
So games are, therefore, hostile ground for most republicans (not to be confused with Republicans, who tend to love video games because they’re also full of guns). But which games are the most uncomfortably regal? The most odiously knee-bending? The most simperingly crown-pilled? And of them, which is the best, according to our esteemed panel? In order to find out, you’ll have to listen to this here podcast here.
The Zombies – Different Game
Different Game rarely recalls their old sound, instead suggesting more intriguing ’70s comparisons
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