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Minit, the quirky, critically acclaimed 60-second puzzle adventure from Willem Nijman, Dominik Johann, Jukio Kallio, and Kitty Calis, is currently free on the Epic Store.

This week we're looking at some of the gems of Apple Arcade. Next stop, a dreamy puzzler.

Stranded Sails, developer Lemonbomb Entertainment's really rather lovely looking single-player tropical-island-themed "open world farming game", will be washing ashore on PC, Switch, PS4, and Xbox One later this month, on 17th October.

Apple Arcade, which launched this Thursday, seems absolutely wonderful so far. We're going to be digging into the games next week, but so far Grindstone by Capy seems like a puzzler for the ages, a gory spin on Twofold Inc that gives me the distinct sense that someone, somewhere, is getting bloody revenge on the development of Below. Equally, Mini Motorways is taking my Mini Metro brain and turning it inside out: everything's so similar, but so completely different. It's glorious.

This week we're looking at some of the gems of Apple Arcade. Next stop, a game about ghosts.

A huge part of any creative endeavour, I suspect, is learning how to stick things together. It's so strange, really, that at the heart of such a mysterious process should be something so deeply, infuriatingly practical. So how do you stick things together? Some of the best film-makers find their movies in the edit, in that frightening, abstract landscape where time is fractured and can spin backwards, forwards, sideways if you want, while, simultaneously, the cutting suite is littered with old Hula-Hoop packets, its tables haloed with coffee stains. It's not just film: Ralph Ellison, when asked why his second novel was taking so many decades to finish, generally replied by saying that he was working on "the transitions." (Also, his house burned down at one point, which can't have helped.)

Mutants are often metaphors when it comes to stories. They're ostracized by an uncaring society, say, because of differences that frequently translate into a secret kind of strength. They're a means for stepping outside ourselves and looking back. That's great and all, but in Mutazione, I'm delighted to report that the mutants are people more than they're metaphors. They live their lives, they bicker and develop obsessions. And they have their own histories which they sometimes struggle to make sense of, like everyone else.

Hello! This week we're looking at some of the gems of the Apple Arcade line up. Who fancies a bit of reading?

Hello! This week we're going to be looking at some of the games that are now available on Apple Arcade. First up is something that already feels like a bit of a classic.

This week we're looking at a few of the gems on Apple Arcade. Next up, the latest from UsTwo.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford and the Borderlands studio's former general counsel are currently embroiled in a messy legal dispute, accusing each other of, among other things, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duties, resulting in some extraordinary allegations being made.

Sega's classic light gun arcade shooters House of the Dead 1 & 2 are officially getting the remake treatment, although it doesn't look like they'll be releasing for a while.

The announcement of Shenmue 3 several years ago is one of those moments I never expected - something which seemed like an impossibility became reality. Over 18 years after the release of Shenmue 2, the story of Ryo Huzuki would continue on modern day hardware with PlayStation 4 and PC versions confirmed. The game is set for release on November 19th but a select tier of original Kickstarter backers received access to a playable demo earlier in the week. It's our first proper taste of the game - and I'm excited by what I've played.

It's October now, which means I'm legally allowed to start writing about Halloween, and what better way to kick things off than with another Apex Legends leak? Or several, in fact.

Speed Demons looks like Spy Hunter and plays like Burnout, and it's by App Store royalty. Is it good? Reader, it is wonderful.

Where Cards Fall is at least two things at once: it's a puzzle game about getting from A to B, and it's a series of rather touchingly sketched-in vignettes about growing up, about isolation and memory and the predatory nature of depression. That's what I've been taking away from it, anyway. It's a lovely thing.

You spend years waiting for someone to do a game based on Spy Hunter, and then two arrive in the same week. Agent Intercept isn't as polished and pure as Speed Demons, perhaps, but it's still a lovely knockabout chase-'em-up game, and true to the Spy Hunter template your car can transform into a boat whenever you hit water.

At first, I thought Skate City had started with an impossible choice. Los Angeles or Barcelona? (Okay, or Oslo.) In truth though it was even worse. I could go to Los Angeles now, but I would have to unlock Barcelona! Still, what a line-up. What a selection of temptations.

Hello. Last night I almost leapt out of bed and ran into the street wearing just my pyjamas, grabbing anyone I could find and loudly yelling, "Apple Arcade! It's this new thing on iOS! First month's free! The only game you need is Painty Mob!" I had been playing Painty Mob for about five minutes by that point. Now I'm several hours deep. The only difference is this: now I would yell even louder.

It's the indirectness of control that makes pinball so uniquely rage-inducing, isn't it? I love pinball, but it also makes me angrier to play than almost anything. And that's because while the ball is my avatar, so to speak, my only means of controlling it are the flippers. I've tried thinking of the flippers as my avatar, but I quickly get that woozy spectral aura that means a migraine is approaching. So I fire and then hope for the best. There goes my little guy, carrying all my hopes, and there's almost nothing I can do to help them.

I am aware, obviously, that you're not supposed to explain jokes. The thing is I'm not sure there's any way for me to explain what What the Golf is without at some point explaining a joke.

Apple Arcade's games are surprisingly good at suggesting there is still untapped potential in the iPhone's touchscreen. (Pun not intended but I'll take it.) Skate City turned a radial system of swipes into a whole bag of tricks, and now Bleak Sword is being widely cited as the game that redeems touchscreen sword-fighting. Honestly? It is brilliant: simple and thrilling and kinetic. What a game this is.

I have not seen all, or perhaps even most, of Cricket Through the Ages. I do not know how deep the tunnel goes, how dark and terrifying the discoveries. However, if you were worried that Apple Arcade would launch without a game that allowed you to hit an astronaut in the head with a lump of rock or whatever it is, worry no more.

I think I remember that Popcap once had a rule about hexes. Never use hexes in a casual game, the rule went (and let's agree not to unpick that term casual at the moment), because hexes are the absolute opposite of casual. Games that have hexes are about war and history and tactics and placement. No hexes in Peggle!

Neo Cab is set in a neon stand-in for San Francisco and features one of the last human cab drivers as its protagonist. Its tale of trying to get by in an AI-driven world might have been a little heavy handed, but in truth, Neo Cab is so beautifully judged the satire never gets in the way of the people at the heart of the story.

I should probably never be put in charge of an evidence board. You know, one of those densely cinematic affairs where photos and newspaper clippings and the odd shell cartridge are connected by bits of string. It is weird to go to C&H Fabrics and think that so many of the people buying red wool may be detectives working hard to crack the big one.

More than 90 million people have downloaded Mario Kart Tour during its first week, making it Nintendo's biggest smartphone launch by quite some margin.

It's tough to see how anyone can do much better than this latest speedrun record for Titanfall 2's Gauntlet.

A few months ago, my friends and I decided to start a new Minecraft server. This wasn't something new for any of us - we've dabbled with Minecraft here and there for years, and the need for a chilled out experience away from competitive multiplayer games would occasionally draw us back into its peaceful cuboid world. But we weren't the only players with the bright idea of jumping back in. Minecraft celebrated its 10th anniversary back in May, and whether players like us realised it or not, this brought the game back into the forefront of everyone's minds.

We knew a console port was arriving sometime soon, but the date of Return of the Obra Dinn's maiden voyage on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Switch has finally been set: and it's later this month.