The Sunday Papers – Rock Paper Shotgun
Read moreSundays are for resting, supposedly, but it can also be for mopping the floors, washing the bedding, and catching up on work because you simply have too much to do.
Remember the Electronic Wireless Show? Two of its hosts, Alice Bell and Nate Crowley, have started a new podcast “about video games (mostly)”. It’s called Total Playtime and an introductory episode 0 and a Patreon are live now. The third host is Jon Hicks, with whom you may be less familiar, but he used to be my boss and thus may be considered the 5th Beatle of RPS. Anyway, go give it a listen.
Sam Horti (sometimes of this parish) popped up in the New York Times this week, talking to Inkle’s Jon Ingold about video game writing. This one has generated a lot of discussion.Ingold, an author of celebrated narrative-driven games including 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault, acknowledged that his writing tastes were “fussy” and was reluctant to single out studios. But he was comfortable calling the text-heavy Disco Elysium, one of the century’s most acclaimed role-playing games, “massively overwritten and really tedious.”I linked to a Felipe Pepe article last week and buried within it was this link to another. How a 25-year-old German MMO became a Pokémon fangame.
Bertie Purchese at Eurogamer wrote about the Switch 2 reveal, and the fear that Nintendo are no longer the makers of weird tech they once were. I ctrl+F’d this for “Labo 2” but didn’t find a mention.
Jay Castello, sometimes of this parish, made a YouTube video about “the curse of player agency” upon Starfield.
That’s it. Short one this week, because I haven’t had time to read anything among all the playing and the writing of things.
Music this week is gothic scuzz-pop from south London, Goat Girl’s Ride Around. Then relax yourself with a classic, Coolie High by Camp Lo.
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