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Windjammers 2 and the Thrills of Fictional Sport
I have often considered it an injustice how unwilling most video games are to let us assume the role of a German man who…
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The Faded Glories of God of War
The first thing you see, in God of War, is its hero, Kratos, all scowls and skin like cement, standing by a tree. The…
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Unpacking is clever, but it needs more mess
Unpacking has you doing just that. It’s a great name—one of those brisk, fuss-free titles that bears an elegant weight. There are stacks of…
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Does PlayStation VR2 need a Game Pass-style boost?
The second PlayStation virtual-reality headset has been revealed. Well, sort of. We have yet to glimpse the beast itself, but now we have a…
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2022: Twenty Games That Give Us Hope
2022 is here, and it’s time to begin anew. Are you struggling to feel the spring of optimism? Have you taken a hopeful walk,…
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The Year in Games: Reflections, Resolutions, and Loops
Highs and lows, to begin the year. January whisked us to the cloud-lapped summit of a skyscraper, in Dubai, where Agent 47 was hard…
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The Ten Best Games of 2021
It’s that time of year when critics, like Santa, start making lists—though I’ll be damned if I’m checking mine twice. For me, the end-of-year…
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The Matrix Awakens is a wondrous game in its own right
The Matrix Awakens, or, to give it its full title, The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience, is upon us. If you have…
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The First of December: A Festive Gaming Poem
It is the first of December, and you must now feel, Festive and wrapped in fuzzy-jumpered zeal The leaves have dropped, and so has…
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Kid A Mnesia Exhibition review
The strangely titled Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is an interactive art installation, furnished with the writing, recordings, and highly pressurised gloom of two albums,…