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Bertie's paladin Percy raising a stein of beer to the camera. An eerie pale green glow surrounds him.

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What we've been playing - changing perceptions, persevering, and making the familiar feel new

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Aug. 2, 2024 Robert Purchese

A masculine character bobs in blue water with a floating jar nearby. We see the character from the back and they are topless. The jar has a baby in. It's Death Stranding.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Places to swim

Splish, splash, splosh.

July 31, 2024 Robert Purchese

Key of Dreams photo showing the spooky-looking Treowen manner in black and white.

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Levelling up interactive theatre: behind the scenes on Key of Dreams, a live-action weird fiction narrative adventure

Love craft.

July 28, 2024 Tom Phillips

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The Garden Path offers a purposefully slow escape

Allotmenting time.

July 26, 2024 Lottie Lynn

Lucy in her Vault Dweller ensemble and Maximus in his Power Armour in Amazon's Fallout adaptation

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What we've been playing - oil rigs, court cases, and great adaptations

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

July 26, 2024 Robert Purchese

The El Presidente protagonist character from the Tropico series of games. They're white-skinned with fairly bushy black beard, and they have aviator sunglasses and a military dress suit and hat on. Behind them, a tropical paradise has skyscrapers and power plants on.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Presidents

The make-believe kind.

July 24, 2024 Robert Purchese

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Meeting the people of PEGI: talking age ratings, gambling, and why their famous voice only got €200

"We're not a group of corporate men in suits trying to stop everybody's fun."

July 24, 2024 Robert Purchese

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Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition feels like Nintendo for the TikTok era

We'll fix it in the edit.

July 23, 2024 Christian Donlan

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Digital Foundry | Luigi's Mansion 3 is Digital Foundry's pick as Switch's most technically impressive game

A generational retrospective kicks off with a focus on Nintendo first party games.

July 21, 2024 Oliver Mackenzie

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Digital Foundry | Forza Motorsport PC modded: extra detail and improved ray tracing are there for the taking

Plus: a look at performance optimisation since launch.

July 20, 2024 Alex Battaglia

A montage of 3 vertical screenshots from Tetris DS, showing split screens of three different retro modes

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For a belated celebration of Tetris' 40th birthday, here's a highly partisan look back at Tetris DS

When Mario picked up a tetromino.

July 20, 2024 Christian Donlan

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Digital Foundry | Ace Combat 7 is one of the most impressive Switch ports we've tested

An excellent, intelligently handled conversion of a genuinely superb game.

July 19, 2024 Oliver Mackenzie

Dungeons of Hinterberg screenshot showing Luisa in a taxi to the mountains with a thought bubble about weekends doing nothing recovering from doing work all week

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Supporters | Game of the Week: Dungeons of Hinterberg, productivity, and the quest to escape engagement

Carving out time.

July 19, 2024 Chris Tapsell

A screenshot from The Invincible, in which we see in first-person as the player reaches out to touch the domed head of a chrome robot in front of us.

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What we've been playing - space mysteries, From's kind game, and Bertie's Gate 3

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

July 19, 2024 Robert Purchese

A screenshot from the visual novel-style game Vampire Therapist. In it, we see the upper body of a fairly typical looking cowboy - a rugged old white man with a large moustache, longish hair and a cowboy hat and waistcoat and shirt on. He - Sam - looks uncomfortable. Maybe it's because he's standing in a red-lit goth club.

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Vampire Therapist asks: can a game really teach the fundamentals of therapy?

Freud or fraud?

July 19, 2024 Robert Purchese

A masked warrior slices a japanese yokai monster with their sword in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

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Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is a joyful, exuberant dance of strategic action

Monster mash.

July 18, 2024 Katharine Castle

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Digital Foundry | Concord: Guardians of the Galaxy meets a next-gen Overwatch?

A technically solid, well-made hero shooter that has potential.

July 17, 2024 Thomas Morgan

A close-up photograph of a black leather saddle and silver metal stirrup.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Mounts

Stirrup the discourse.

July 17, 2024 Robert Purchese

Elden Ring character rides Torrent into a misty forest in Shadow of the Erdtree

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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's progression issues could do with a bit of Nintendo magic

The Legend of Messmer.

July 16, 2024 Ed Nightingale

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The future of Twitch: safety, growth, and the importance of finding community

"I think there's a lot of positivity around Twitch right now."

July 15, 2024 Ed Nightingale

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EverQuest provided so much pain but I still love it

Anyone for a corpse run?

July 14, 2024 Jennifer Allen

A close-up of Bertie's blonde-haired, masculine human paladin in Baldur's Gate 3. They are messed up. They've got black veins crisscrossing their face and blood all over them, and their eyes glow a menacing red.

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Supporters | Let's get evil in Baldur's Gate 3: Orin and a Bhaal-oody family reunion

Part 8.

July 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

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Digital Foundry | AMD's FSR 3.1 upscaling tested: improved over FSR 2 but DLSS and XeSS are still ahead

Improvements are evident, but core issues remain.

July 12, 2024 Alex Battaglia

A side-on screenshot of a mindflayer character called The Emperor in Baldur's Gate 3. They are topless so we can see their wiry, muscled body. Their squid-like apendages from their mouth tumble down over their reclining body. It's quite hot.

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Supporters | Game of the Week: The secret to Baldur's Gate 3's success is fanfiction

Just give me ursine.

July 12, 2024 Robert Purchese

A very colourful, 80s cartoon-like piece of artwork for the game Anger Foot. It shows the game's main character on the left hand side of the screen, leaping into a group of enemies on the right hand side, foot first.

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What we've been playing - door kicking, cursed oil rigs, and surprisingly still-powerful old games

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

July 12, 2024 Robert Purchese