Author: Christian Donlan
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Marvel’s Midnight Suns review – crush evil, DM the Avengers, and find that perfect bedside table
[ad_1] Great tactical fun nestled in a sweet-natured superhero dollhouse One night last week I went to a book club with Blade. It was Blade’s idea, actually. Captain America and Captain Marvel were there, so we were pretty much knee deep in captains. Blade had arranged the whole thing to spend time with Captain…
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Evil West review – an absolute blast
[ad_1] A gleeful splat-’em-up featuring a lovely bag of tricks. God I love a good werewolf. Werewolves, I propose, are a chance for game designers to be unreasonable. Werewolves do not wait politely to attack. They do not shamble and bunch together like zombies, taking blind swipes at you with the wrist rather than…
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Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope review – snooker in space
[ad_1] Knockabout XCOM fun in a galaxy-hopping adventure that makes Mario’s brother a true star. Who is Luigi? The brother. The palette swap. The cringer and creeper, chattering Mario’s name as he quakes and trembles in various ghost houses. All true. But there is another Luigi. The Luigi of the hard stare in Mario…
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Paradise Marsh review – surrender to the calm and colour of nature
[ad_1] Explore an endless wetlands in this glorious study in nature and solitude One of my clearest lockdown memories is of going for a lunchtime walk with Olaf Stapledon. It was somewhere near the start of things, I think, no cars on the roads and those government mandated exercise breaks still feeling weirdly illicit.…
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Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way
[ad_1] Oh, it’s a challenge to describe Evercore Heroes. A pleasant challenge. The name doesn’t tell you very much. The team, which contains a number of people who worked on League of Legends, describes it as “competitive PvE”. My own notes from a recent online presentation suggest it’s a WoW raid mixed with a…
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Batman’s dead in Gotham Knights, but are you really playing as Batman in Arkham Asylum?
[ad_1] I don’t know if you’ve read much about the new Batman game, Gotham Knights. I’ll call it a Batman game for simplicity’s sake. The truth is – as far as we’ve been told – this is actually a Batman game in which you don’t play as Batman. Batman’s dead, so instead you play…
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Slime Rancher 2 is glorious and ghastly and that’s what’s fascinating about it
[ad_1] A few weeks back a friend recommended Jonathan Crary’s 24/7, a short, vital book I have just finished reading. I suspect a lot of it went over my head, but the basics are pretty simple. Crary, who is a professor of modern art and theory at Columbia, makes the case that the contemporary…
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Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin’ with Coolio’s incredible scallops recipe.
[ad_1] The highest praise I can lay on Cookin’ with Coolio: Five Star Meals at a One Star Price is that when I went to look for my copy the other day I realised I’d leant it out to someone and would probably never see it again. This is the life of cook…
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Dorfromantik’s on Switch and I love it more than ever
[ad_1] In a weird way, I feel ever so slightly sorry for the team of students who made Dorfromantik. Call it Joseph Heller Syndrome: first time out and they’ve made a classic. Does that leave them confused? Fearful? I suspect not, and this is why I only feel ever so slightly sorry for the…
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The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow review – an adventure game with depth
[ad_1] Hob’s Barrow is a game that refuses to leave your brain until the whole thing is untangled. SPOILER WARNING: I try not to reveal specifics of Hob’s Barrow in this piece, but to get at what’s special about this game, I’ve had to talk about certain elements of the design that you might not…