It’s been a week of gaming contrasts for me, as I juggled playing the rather delightful Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Cities: Skylines 2 for their respective reviews. To be honest, once you’ve got your city to a happy place and want to accrue cash for that next big township expansion, I could have “played” them both at the same time.
With Alan Wake 2 looming large in the release schedule, Nic B has polished off a playthrough of Control. That before he fell into a “proper hole” playing Monster Hunter Now, which he probably meant in a metaphorical sense. “The patches are making the game a lot better, but it has a way to go yet!”
The one that we call Nick P is also keenly aware of Alan Wake 2, but he’s been keeping his fingers busy by trying to get Armored Core 6 finished, and making a little start on Spider-Man 2, which made him very happy.
Aran played Hexarchy for review, “which is a fun 4X deck-building mashup”, before turning his attention to Invincible Presents Atom Eve for a preview and now making a start on Sonic Superstars. Imploring to the gaming gods, he also asked, “Can someone freeze time for a bit so I can catch up with my games please?”
Alas, Ade’s come to the conclusion that “I don’t like Assassin’s Creed Mirage all that much, so I stopped playing it.” Which is kind of disappointing. Thankfully that disappointment was washed away in a flood of arcade racing joy with Hot Wheels Unleashed 2!
Gamoc’s been playing Trepang2 and Ghostrunner 2 for upcoming reviews, as well as his usual Baldur’s Gate 3. Well, he played games when he was able to tear himself away from watching Spider-Man 2 trailers and feeling sad that he couldn’t play it yet.
No such sadness for Dom, who was handling our Spider-Man 2 review for us. He had
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