Author: Christian Donlan
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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review – fabulous exploration and combat
Ubisoft ditches its normal formula and finds the ideal way to bring gaming’s original Prince back to life. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review There’s something about a magic door. Who could resist them? I can’t. I don’t know anyone who can. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a lot of things. It’s…
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Game of the Week: Prince of Persia and the question of memory tax
I think I first heard the term memory tax when I was writing about chess. In chess, at the really great levels of play, memory tax is a huge part of what you’re dealing with. You don’t just have to remember what a bishop does and how castling works – I hate castling. You have…
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Pacific Drive is a gloriously horrible trip into the cursed wilderness
There are a lot of ways you could describe Pacific Drive, I think. It’s sort of an extraction looter, in which you tumble into horrible worlds and try to emerge with something worth stealing. It’s sort of a blend of Roadside Picnic, the novel about scavengers who explore a strange area of wilderness that’s been…
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Game of the Week: Enjoy an aimless January day in Garden Galaxy
One of the pleasures of January in Sussex is the aimless countryside walk. If you’re lucky enough to live near a bit of greenery you might know what I mean. One morning, for no real reason, you find yourself heading off to wander around trees and grass and mud and the odd patch of sukebind.…
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The most exciting games of 2024
Hello! A new year, a new slate of games to look forward to. Shall we do this all over again? Why not! In amongst the remakes and sequels, there’s plenty of genuinely new stuff to look forward to in 2024. Naiad promises to take us all wild swimming, for starters, and then Animal Well promises…
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It’s that magical Game Catch-up time of year!
One of my most bittersweet gaming memories is pretty recent – at most it was a couple of years ago. It was the day after we all knocked off work and I pulled the sofa round in front of the TV and played a game that I wasn’t reviewing, or writing about, or checking…
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Game of the Week: Bahnsen Knights and the ideal series
Hello! It’s our last Game of the Week of 2023 – next week we’ll be on to end-of-the-year stuff – and what an incredible week to end things on. How many five star games can one week handle? Quite a few, I guess. I’m choosing Bahnsen Knights as our Game of the Week,…
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Bahnsen Knights review: bringing the Pixel Pulps home in style
The third of LCB’s weird narrative experiences is a reminder of what makes this series so special. One of the special things about games, and a thing that I have always struggled to articulate, is that the good ones, the really good ones, take you deep. Have you ever noticed how small a TV…
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You have to play Outer Wilds on Switch (and a chaise longue)
Donald Mustard, of Fortnite, Infinity Blade and Shadow Complex, once told me something very interesting about games that I’ve been turning over ever since. He was talking about the difference between designing something like Shadow Complex and designing something like Infinity Blade. The difference, he made it sound – the main difference…
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Outside of GTA 6 and Geoff Keighley, here’s what else happened this week
Morning! With the GTA 6 trailer released, and the night of Geoff done with, we thought it might be handy to gather together a few of the other things that happened this week in case you missed them. This is not an exhaustive list by any means – it was a busy week. Firstly, don’t…