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Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game – it’s a bold art film | Dominik Diamond

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With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur moviesI spent Valentine’s Day not with my wife but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It’s a new game called Speed Dates – Winter Edition, which I only chanced upon when […]

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Pieced Together review – poignant narrative game gathers bittersweet fragments of a friendship

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Glowfrog Games; PC Short but very sweet tale asks the player to compile a scrapbook of mementoes telling the story of a heartfelt bond that frays over timeThere are few things sadder than the end of a close friendship. Whether it happens in a sudden moment of betrayal or after years of gradual separation, the

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Anlife: what does an unusual evolution simulator have to say about AI?

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We explore the strange food-obsessed world of a new game whose tech was once called ‘an insult to life itself’ by Hayao Miyazaki, the film-maker behind Spirited AwayA strange piece of software has recently landed on the PC gaming store Steam. And “software” feels like the cleanest way to describe it. Existing somewhere between a

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‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

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Multiple game creators describe ineffective moderation on the platform, resulting in unchecked hatred in forums and targeted campaigns of negative ‘anti-woke’ reviewsFor years, the gaming storefront Steam has let abuse and bigotry pass through its moderation, according to players and developers who use it. The platform is now host to reams of content that violate

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Romeo Is a Dead Man review – a misfire from a storied gaming provocateur

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PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox, PC; Grasshopper Manufacture/Marvelous Inc After some dumb fun hacking at zombies, legendary developer Suda51’s first original game in a decade sadly only delivers a host of incoherent disappointmentsEver since he baffled GameCube owners with 2005’s Killer7, Japanese game director Suda51 has had a reputation for turning heads. From parodying the

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Cairn review – obsession, suffering and awe in a climbing game that hits exhausting new heights

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PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; The Game BakersA punishing, beautiful survival game that turns mountaineering into an intimate test of endurance, fixation and emotional resolve – you’ll be in tears by the endMountaineers and climbers, especially the free-solo kind, are humanity’s most fascinating maniacs: single-minded, daring souls who throw themselves into profoundly optional life-endangering feats. It

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TR-49 review – inventive narrative deduction game steeped in the strangest of wartime secrets

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PC; InkleThe UK game developer’s latest is a database mystery constructed from an archive of fictional books. Their combined contents threaten to crack the code of realityBletchley Park: famed home of the Enigma machine, Colossus computer, and, according to the premise of TR-49, an altogether stranger piece of tech. Two engineers created a machine that

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A beginner’s guide to Arc Raiders: what it is and how you start playing

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Embark Studios’ multiplayer extraction shooter game has already sold 12m copies in just three months. Will it capture you too?Released last October Arc Raiders has swiftly become one of the most successful online shooters in the world, shifting 12m copies in barely three months and attracting as many players as established mega hits such as

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‘It’s a loving mockery, because it’s also who I am’: the making of gaming’s most pathetic character

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The team behind Baby Steps discuss why they made a whiny, unprepared manbaby the protagonist – and how players have grown to love Nate as he struggles up a mountain“I don’t know why he is in a onesie and has a big ass,” shrugs game developer Gabe Cuzzillo. “Bennett just came in with that at

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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles review – remastered 1997 classic is even more politically resonant now

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PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, Xbox, PC; Square-EnixThis landmark role-playing game remains a revolutionary tour de forceAt first glance, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, first released in 1997 and now available in newly remastered guise, does little to separate itself from other boilerplate fantasy fiction. There is a hero, Ramza – an idealistic nobleman

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