Author: Christian Donlan
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An hour with Sludge Life 2: more jokes, more graffiti, more cynicism, more brilliance
[ad_1] One of the purest videogame ideas is a room whose interior you can see but not access. Not yet, anyway. This is games’ four four beat, its Alberti bass and its cadmium yellow. Sludge Life, which exploded into my life a few years back, a two-hour long game that has kept me…
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Tchia review – an archipelago of delights and horrors
[ad_1] A glorious spell of island hopping, with some surprisingly nasty moments. Not bragging, but on our street, today is bin day, and I celebrated by standing for ten minutes or so at the bedroom window while a stray yogurt carton ran up and down the path outside our house. It sounds a…
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Garden Galaxy is a game about beautiful clutter
[ad_1] I’m finding Garden Galaxy torturously difficult to play, in part because it has so few rules. This is a garden designing game at heart. You start with a small patch of tiles and a magical pot. Strangers come by and as you click on them they drop you a coin. You put…
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Idle hours with Pentiment and A Month in the Country
[ad_1] I spent a few idle hours this week reading A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr’s wonderful – and wonderfully short – novel of a Great War veteran who spends the summer of 1920 uncovering an artwork on the wall of a village church. I had never heard of Carr or the book…
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Game of the Week: Today’s Game of the Week is also the game of forever
[ad_1] The biggest game this week is undoubtedly Resident Evil 4, a remake/remaster of a classic that’s been thrilling fans of video games ever since that Edge cover which, to my memory at least, was so gnarly it had to be hidden inside a plastic bag. Am I wrong? Is my mind playing tricks?…
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Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon review – luxurious art and ingenious controls await
[ad_1] A beautifully crafted exploration game brimming with combat and puzzles. Better even than starting a game with no expectations, can be starting a game with the wrong expectations. When I first heard about Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, I clocked the child protagonist, the hand-drawn illustrative art and the flutter…
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Let’s go bookshelf snooping in games
[ad_1] A few years back, browsing on Instagram, I was delighted to see a book I knew. The spine of it, anyway: a perfect bolt of cheery gold, stacked neatly on a shelf by some plants. The book was Kenny Shopsin’s life-changingly great cookbook Eat Me, which I absolutely recommend, and the shelf it…
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Fortnite’s grind rails are just super
[ad_1] It says a lot about the pace and invention of Fortnite that, as soon as we heard the new update would add grind rails, as a team we started questioning whether the game had ever had grind rails before. Things come and go here, who can tell? There have been ziplines, and those…
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Idyll is a gentle social world from the creator of Library of Babble.
[ad_1] For now, Idyll exists for me as a few notes in my diary – things I read, bottles I opened. It’s kind of similar to the way a distant holiday might live on in the form of pictures on my phone’s camera reel. Reading back through the notes now, a surprising amount of…
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After a lifetime of Mario, Kirby is pleasantly weird
[ad_1] Kirby and I, it seems, have grown up alongside each other, while remaining largely separate. I have been living my life, Kirby has been living his. A lot of what I’ve been doing in my life, though, is playing games that are almost, but never quite, Kirby. Over the last few years I…