Kabuto Sumo brings wrestling thrills to tabletop gaming
![A view of a board game from directly above shows a large number of small green discs and medium brown discs, and four colorful beetles all on a log themed platform sitting on a wooden table. I the lower right two hands hold a blue insect shaped piece up to the board as if to measure a piece between the blue mandibles.](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/tZTcLBCQ6KGIp8v7MCM9SIh_oNQ=/0x0:1920x1080/640x360/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72255479/Kabuto_Sumo_Multicam_Part_2.00_19_50_16.Still010.0.jpg)
A unique board game that’s one part Sumo wrestling, one part A Bug’s Life, and one part Jenga
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A unique board game that’s one part Sumo wrestling, one part A Bug’s Life, and one part Jenga
Something terrible lurks beneath the waves in Dredge. Actually, scratch that. There are a lot of terrible things that call the oceans of The Marrows home in this melancholy fishing adventure, but what they are, I couldn’t possibly tell you. In all my hours sailing these cursed waters, I’ve only ever seen brief flashes of them – their ungodly, slippery masses, long spiny fins, and a dozen different combinations of glowing eyes, teeth and tentacles. They’re forever fading in and out of view, cloaked by the thick fog that blankets the sea every evening. Sometimes your ship lights will catch them for a split second before they slip away, or maybe you’ll only hear them hurtling toward you, with a scream of a jet engine and a maw that’s white hot, ready for gnashing your flimsy wooden carcass into sawdust.
It’s unnerving, being out at sea after dark, but that’s the time when the rarest and most vile catches raise their scaly heads. So the question becomes: are you willing to risk your own sanity for the sake of a quick buck? Or are you too afraid of what you’ll find in Davy Jones’ locker? In Dredge, the answer is always yes. Yes, you will be frightened of what’s out there, whether it’s real or born from your own fearful imaginings, but you’ll sputter out into the darkness regardless, because the allure of this supernatural fishing sim is just too good to resist.
Serious racing games are not, as a rule, my thing. If the goal is to repeat a course 20 times to trim 0.2 seconds off a number, and not to cackle like a petty chaos gremlin as you slam someone off the track at a tight corner, I am probably not going to enjoy myself much.
Rush Rally 3 isn’t all that serious, but it’s still on the wrong side of the tracks for me, I thought, before accidentally playing it for 3 hours. This is an excellent bundle of rally trials, challenges, and simple circuit racing with a cheerfully mid-2000s feel. I might prefer the messy nonsense of Trail Out, but if you value actual driving skill more highly, this is well worth your time.
Train to Busan, Peninsula, and Hellbound‘s Yeon Sang-ho is back and this time the South Korean director-writer is going full dystopian sci-fi thriller.
Netflix dropped the trailer for Yeon’s latest, JUNG_E, an original for the streaming service set in a post-apocalyptic 22nd century — and the whole thing looks like a corporate ad for the fictional facility featured in the film. An AI researcher at Kronoid Lab clones her late mother’s brain (a distinguished army leader) as an AI combat warrior in an attempt to get the upper hand on a raging war on Earth, now a desolate place.
Yeon brings with him Hellbound stars Kim Hyun-joo and Ryu Kyung-soo, as titular cloned mercenary Jung_E and Kronoid Lab head Sang-Hoon, respectively. But most notably, it’s also the final screen appearance from late actor Kang Soo-youn, who died in May at the age of 55. Kang plays the AI researcher, Seohyun.