Guardian's take seems more positive www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

We got a two year anniversary of the GTA6 trailer before we got GTA6

Games that don't work well have been the exception for a while now. A more powerful device running SteamOS should hopefully encourage developers of more, er, powerful games to ensure they work via Proton. Which is enough really - Linux ports are nice but not essential and can break.

I've played four of those and what have I done with my year

(In a dramatically well animated scene, Hornet slices Lace for the last time to an intense but mournful classical score)

You are goated with the sauce, FaZE

I don't know if this was intentional but the repeat sequence where the statues blow up after you defeat a colossi has this similarity to how the Taliban blew up Buddah statues in 2001. There aren't many games that have an undercurrent message about cultural destruction

Erm, this is an Xbox?

See I'm still relevant to *this cohort of people who tell me I am*

Please keep it up though, gaming journalism seems to be going off a cliff and it keeps me extremely grounded in the Things That Are Happening. I hope that the Patreon is helping making it work

I mean, honestly the fact that you guys talk about having kids and responsibilites, and having a gaming memory that extends back to SNES/Genesis makes me feel less dead.

His cider isn't bad tbf

This is also why the Besties basically works

I felt this in Neir Automata - soundtrack is spectacular, but I can't hear it over the bullets

Death Stranding 2 is, if you dodge the violent moments, quite cosy really if all you choose to do is run about making people happy with your backpack skills