TheGamer’s Best Features Of The Week: Old-School Assassin’s Creed, Stylish Pokemon Villains, And More
Rings of Power is out, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet has a new trailer, and Assassin’s Creed is back in the spotlight with a seemingly return-to-roots sequel set in Baghdad. Oh, and Liz Truss is prime minister - you might wonder how that ties into media, let alone gaming, but I’ll get to that.
Simply put, it’s been another busy seven days here at TheGamer, so here are the best features of the week handily compiled for your reading pleasure.
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Microsoft is in the middle of buying Activision Blizzard and is planning to put one of the biggest gaming franchises onto one of the biggest gaming services - Call of Duty on Game Pass. This has ruffled Sony’s feathers with worries of exclusivity, but Xbox boss Phil Spencer offered PlayStation three more years of CoD after the current deal expires.
PlayStation boss Jim Ryan wasn’t too happy, but editor-in-chief Stacey Henley argues he doesn’t have a leg to stand on. PlayStation 4 “won” the console race of its generation in many’s eyes because of its extensive library of exclusives from The Last of Us to Spider-Man to God of War, while it’s historically had timed exclusives in Call of Duty itself.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage looks to be a return to form with a dense city and a focus on stealth, with the key art paying homage to the classics in a way that has fans giddy with nostalgia. But what do we actually want from a game that goes back to basics? As features editor Andrew King points out, there’s a big risk in getting trapped in the past and falling into dated mechanics rather than building something new.
Return to Monkey Island is a long-awaited sequel that creator Ron Gilbert has been working on for
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