Author: Christian Donlan
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Wolfstride is a mech-battler and a game about the mech-battling biz • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] Wolfstride reminds me, in a powerful but rather hard to pin down way, of Invitation to Love, the make-believe soap opera that everyone’s watching in the first season of Twin Peaks. I’ve heard the game described as an anime like Cowboy Bebop, or even an actual soap opera, and that’s true. But there’s a…
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Ellen Raskin’s picture books are as rich as her novels • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] They’re just harder to come by. Ellen Raskin was a children’s author whose complex, playful novels are enormously rewarding for adults as well as kids. Sadly, she only wrote four of them – four puzzle-mysteries which I return to often, because they are always revealing new aspects, new elements. (I say sadly, but I only…
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a chat with idlemurmurs • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] “I think it’s a very rare thing to make a game or anything, really, to put it out in the world and to be able to return to it not as the author but perhaps as a reader.” Demi Schänzel is a researcher and game designer from Aotearoa (New Zealand), who advocates for “compassionate…
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I cheesed the Fortnite Tones and I event for XP and now I don’t want the Metaverse • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] I haven’t been to a gig in years – I guess with Covid I’m not alone there, but even before that it was getting on a bit. I remember though. One of the magical things about live music, when you’re seeing a band you really love, is that this private relationship – headphones, personal…
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Animal Crossing: The polite battleground for gaming's soul
[ad_1] There’s a screen in the Switch interface that tells me I’ve played Animal Crossing: New Horizons for almost 200 hours. That feels by far the longest I’ve ever spent with a single game – though perhaps Fortnite might tell me otherwise. The weird thing is, with New Horizons, it really doesn’t feel like I’ve…
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Nobody Saves the World review
[ad_1] Drinkbox’s latest is an ARPG that has real fun with the classes. Nobody Saves The World might have the most accurate cats in any game ever. Imperious, judgey, capable of magic. I tend to kill them immediately when they appear -because of their area denial swipe storm attack – so I don’t get time…
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A Tokyo climbing wall like no other • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] Deep in Tokyo’s fashion district I’m told there’s a climbing wall like no other. I first read about it years back in Dezeen. Occasionally I wonder if it’s still there. I hope it is. The wall is in a branch of the ILLOIHA fitness club, and it was created by the design team Nendo.…
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Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon review
[ad_1] Falling block puzzlers are the colourful, sugary, family-friendly games that often model what it’s like to be buried alive. Tetris panic, the screen filled up and the music racing: isn’t that fear you feel at this moment a little too primal to be the result of a simple game you’re about to lose? Isn’t…
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Is there a more cinematic space than the elevator? • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] I watched Die Hard this Christmas – as ever, on Christmas Eve, wearing my Nakatomi Plaza T-shirt. It’s a fantastic movie and, in this house at least, it’s a Christmas movie – the best Christmas movie. It’s also one of the most interesting architectural movies ever made – I am sure I have bored…
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how does a game spread online? • Eurogamer.net
[ad_1] Green and yellow squares. Hello! We’re going to start the year off with a handful of pieces looking forward to 2022. Sometimes we’ll be looking at trends we’ve spotted or themes that will probably be continuing to define things in games for a while. Sometimes we’ll just be thinking about things we’ve enjoyed and where…