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- Ex-Valve economist says play-to-earn could be "the apotheosis of misanthropy"
- The best gaming microphones for PC: our picks of the best USB mics
- Sucker For Love: First Date review: a Lovecraftian dating sim that refuses to tone down the horror
- Apex Legends' new character Mad Maggie has a giant wrecking ball
- Electronic Wireless Show podcast episode 171: the best inventories in games special
- Two Point Hospital follow-up Two Point Campus is coming in May
- Deflector review (early access): a chaotic roguelike with boomerangs and bugs
- Splitgate gets a map editor in launch of 'season 1'
| Ex-Valve economist says play-to-earn could be "the apotheosis of misanthropy" Posted: 27 Jan 2022 10:47 AM PST  Mostly, I want people to shut up about NFTs and cryptocurrency and the metaverse and play-to-earn games. Maybe if we turn away and pretend they're not there, it'll all burn out when scammers grow tired of being scammed by other scammers. However, one of the few people I do want to hear talk about it all is Yanis Varoufakis, who was Valve's in-house economist before becoming Greece's finance minister then an MP. In a wonderfully long new interview, he is not impressed by much of the hype, and it is DELIGHTFUL. |
| The best gaming microphones for PC: our picks of the best USB mics Posted: 27 Jan 2022 09:00 AM PST  Mercifully, voice comms in PC games aren’t all about being lambasted by strangers. Whether giving a quick thanks to a helpful teammate or settling into an hours-long Discord session, some games are just better with a bit of a chinwag going on – and adding one of the best gaming microphones to your setup will make sure you always come through loud and clear. |
| Sucker For Love: First Date review: a Lovecraftian dating sim that refuses to tone down the horror Posted: 27 Jan 2022 09:00 AM PST  Be honest with me: when you read the words "Lovecraftian dating sim", did your mind go straight to a joke about tentacle porn? Horror-themed dating sims are not exactly new, but it's rare to be given the opportunity to date the eldritch gods themselves, and taken at face value, it's hard to imagine where else this could be going. Well, allow me to dispel your illusions right away: Sucker For Love: First Date is not an H-game. It is, in fact, the most chaste dating sim I think I've ever played, while also managing to be the most obscenely graphic. You often hear games that straddle different genres accused of not knowing what they're trying to be. Sucker For Love does not suffer from this issue: it knows exactly what it wants to be. The challenge is for you, the hapless player, to keep the hell up. |
| Apex Legends' new character Mad Maggie has a giant wrecking ball Posted: 27 Jan 2022 08:14 AM PST  Until recently, Mad Maggie's main claim to fame in Apex Legends was that she had a surprisingly spry 80-year-old mum, and loved to tell people about it. Now we know she'll be emerging from the backstory and joining the playable Legend roster with Season 12 (Defiance), and a new trailer gives us our first look at her rather destructive set of abilities. |
| Electronic Wireless Show podcast episode 171: the best inventories in games special Posted: 27 Jan 2022 08:00 AM PST  This week the Electronic Wireless Show podcast discusses some of our favourite (and least favourite) inventory configurations. A humble beast, the inventory, yet a feature of many games - sometimes even a necessity. Often we only notice one if it's terrible. But boy, a good inventory is worth a dozen mules. So lets talk about them today! In other news this week, Nate thinks he has come up with an original premise for a Pixar film, only to discover he has invented Seth Rogan's nightmare film Sausage Party, and we are officially starting our campaign to get Henry 'Vitamin H' Cavill on the show. We will be mentioning him every week from now on. Plus: what we like doing on our birthdays, school plays, and pro-wrestling adaptations of Dickens. |
| Two Point Hospital follow-up Two Point Campus is coming in May Posted: 27 Jan 2022 07:26 AM PST  After basically remaking Bullfrog sim Theme Hospital with their first game, Two Point Studios are preparing to return with a new comedy management game. Today they announced Two Point Campus will launch on the 17th of May, inviting us to build and run universities. All I need to know is that it seems one of the courses you can run involves cooking giant pizzas the size of a minibus. Is this real? Did I miss megapizza when I dropped out of university? |
| Deflector review (early access): a chaotic roguelike with boomerangs and bugs Posted: 27 Jan 2022 07:00 AM PST  Boomerangs are cool as hell. The sleek wooden objects careen through the air in a perfect circle - in theory, at least - before returning right back to where they began in the palm of your hand. They’re something that fascinated me as a child, and 20-something years later I still don’t really know how or why they work. Deflector is like someone taped two swords to a boomerang, Mad Max-style. How does the boomerang still operate with twin blades slashing back and forth on either end? Don’t know. How does it always circle its way back to where you’re standing after dashing around an arena filled with enemies? Not a clue. |
| Splitgate gets a map editor in launch of 'season 1' Posted: 27 Jan 2022 06:00 AM PST  When warp-tunneling multiplayer shooter Splitgate came zooming out of its beta portal, gun barrels aflame, it was joyful madness. The maps were some of the best things about it. Old-school mega-arenas adorned with portal-zappable walls that functioned as DIY shortcuts. As virtual coliseums of chaos go, they were pretty cool. Well, now you can make your own. Splitgate is launching into season 1 this week (the developers insist the last four months have been "season 0") and alongside a couple of new game modes, there's now a map creation tool. |
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