I’ve just left the opening area of Sable, and all I can think about is my girlfriend in tears. You see, the Ibexi Camp serves as an hour-long tutorial to Shedworks’ beautiful exploration game, wherein the eponymous protagonist spends their last moments with family and friends before setting off into the wild. There, the Gliding …
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In Song of Farca, you have to experience everything through a computer screen, which is something that feels very familiar in the age of working from home and endless Zoom calls. Sadly, unlike hero Isabella Song, my days involved more spreadsheets, less catching serial killers and spying on goat-obsessed heiresses. …
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I love firsts, and Dark Souls is full of them. Jaw-dropping, head-scratching, gut-wrenching firsts. Like your first encounter with the Great Hammer-wielding Asylum Demon, or your first glimpse at the majestic spires of Anor Londo. Your first tentative steps into the murky Depths, or your first rage quit courtesy of …
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After reading our best handheld consoles list, I was reminded of the time I fell out with my mum’s cat. Not because she’d scratched me, or because she’d peed against the curtains for the umpteenth time that week. Not even because she’d brought in another decapitated mouse from the garden …
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There’s a man stuffed into the trash compactor of my garbage truck. A very dead man. I don’t exactly feel good about putting him there, but, truth be told, my focus is now on how I’ll avoid jail, or worse, joining him in among the bagfuls of dirty diapers, discarded …
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons arrived at exactly the right time. It released during a global pandemic that disrupted all of our lives, which resulted in so many of us seeking solace on its virtual sandy shores. Not only was it an obvious distraction from the chaos happening all around the …
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