GamesmasterSeptember 2017的目錄

With milky, blood-speckled eyes, rotten skin held fast by rusted staples, and ragged teeth behind permanent snarls, Nazi soldiers have never looked more disturbingly dead. Where Call Of Duty: WWII’s story wants to grip your emotions, and team-based multiplayer aims to challenge you, this survival-based co-op is all about shredding your nerves. The aim is simple: to hold out for as long as possible against undead foes. Killing them earns cash used to open new areas, buy weapons, and unlock power-ups in a story that sees you team up with three others and scout a snow-swept Bavarian village in Mittelberg for priceless works of art stolen by Axis powers. What started life as an addictive spinoff in 2008’s Call Of Duty: World At War has since morphed into its own…

“WITH SUCH AN ARRAY OF MOVES, YOU’RE RARELY RESTRICTED IN YOUR APPROACH TO AN OBJECTIVE” Format Switch Publisher Nintendo Developer Nintendo ETA 27 October Versatility. It’s one of those words that mightn’t sound particularly exciting, but what it meansabsolutely is. Away from the bustle of E3, the chance to spend more quality time with Mario’s latest adventure means an opportunity to really dig into what makes it so special. And versatility is one trait it has in – well, not so much spades as whacking great shovels. Without having to race the clock, it’s easier to properly appreciate Mario’s most flexible, diverse moveset ever. Odyssey’s sandbox worlds might be closer to Super Mario 64 and Sunshine than the plumber’s recent adventures, but in handling terms this feels closer to the…

“TESTIMONY BECOMES A SHOOTING GALLERY WHERE YOU GUN DOWN FALSEHOODS WITH BULLETS MADE FROM EVIDENCE” Format PS4, PS Vita Publisher NIS America Developer Spike Chunsoft ETA 29 September If there’s one dev we wouldn’t cross, it’s Kazutaka Kodaka. The Danganronpa series traps teens in situations where the only way to escape is to pull off a perfect murder – and it’s Kodaka’s job to devise these terrible crimes. “I really look forward to betraying the player,” he chuckles as he shows us around his latest slaughterhouse. Like the earlier games, V3 revolves around talented students, each one an ‘ultimate’ in their field. Our hero is the Ultimate Pianist, and soon bumps into the Ultimate Cosplayer. Kodaka says it’s worth keeping an eye on their traits, as “when coming up with…

Format PC Publisher Phoenix Labs Developer Phoenix Labs ETA Winter Monster Hunter: World may look set to widen the series’ audience in the West, but Capcom had better watch out – it’s already got competition. Dauntless is the right kind of imitator, taking the best bits of the established formula for itself and… well, probably making a hat and a sword out of them. The twist? This indie effort is both free-to-play and aimed squarely at PC players. Where Monster Hunter has struggled with online functionality, Dauntless is launching with networked co-op at the core of its vision for the game. Basically, Phoenix Labs is adding a sprinkling of MMO magic – you’ll start each session in an online social hub and join up with your team before heading out…

Format PS4, XO, PC Developer Beethoven & Dinosaur ETASummer 2018 Webhttp://bit.ly/gmartfulescape Unless you’re loading up the joys of Edith Finch or Firewatch, the first thing you do when you hit the start button is try to jump. There’s something reassuring about that little skip at the start of a game. Well, what if we told you that there is a game that makes jumping everywhere else look frankly boring? Not only does The Artful Escape Of Francis Vendetti look frankly edible with all its neon lights, it hands you an electric guitar to strum every time you double jump, and you can airwalk by hammering the jump button. See? Told you. Originally announced as part of Microsoft’s E3 conference, The Artful Escape follows the titular Francis…

For a character who’s built his entire career on being fast, Sonic has had a remarkable amount of trouble keeping up with the evolution of the videogame industry. In recent years the Blue Blur has lagged way behind the competition – but things haven’t always been that way. Back in the early- to mid-1990s Sega was a serious contender, and the company loaded its sling with the Mega Drive and Sonic for a David-versus-Goliath-calibre battle against the monopolistic king of videogames: Nintendo. Showcasing extreme speed, a too-cool-for-school attitude, and bold, bright gameplay, Sonic The Hedgehog burst onto the gaming scene in 1991 spurring nothing short of a revolution. With Sonic leading the charge, the Sega Mega Drive became the king of videogames consoles, if ever so briefly. Drive time “It…

You bring up the map by pressing X (jump is now on B), which obscures the screen but lets you super-jump to a team-mate’s position. D-pad commands let you communicate with your team without voice chat. It’s context-sensitive, so you can yell ‘ouch!’ when you’re splatted. Watch your ink tank to ensure you don’t run out during a fight – though the Splat Dualies let you dodge-roll twice to avoid harm. You can now see which weapons everyone’s got, with a highlight for players who’ve got a special stored up. Downed Inklings will be greyed out.…

“ALL THESE YEARS LATER, CRASH’S SIMPLISTIC APPROACH TO LEVEL DESIGN CONTINUES TO ENTICE” Format PS4 Publisher Activision Developer Vicarious Visions ETA Out now Players 1 Back in 1996, Crash Bandicoot’s debut was a milestone in PlayStation history. The revolutionary 3D platform game spawned two sequels and a popular kart racer before developer Naughty Dog moved onto pastures new, but its fans held on, continuing to show love for their favourite marsupial. They’ve had it tough – a series hiatus following a selection of mediocre sequels appeared to all but confirm the demise of the PlayStation icon back in 2010. But now, Crash has resurfaced with a remaster of his most famous adventures. Pinch yourself – the bandicoot is back. N Sane Trilogy represents Crash’s heyday (with the exception of the…

“BATTLES ARE FAST-PACED, WITH THE SCREEN QUICKLY BECOMING AN EXPLOSION OF DEADLY COLOUR” Format PS4 (reviewed), PC Publisher Housemarque Developer Housemarque ETA Out now Players 1-2 Some things are meant to go together: peanut butter and jam; ice-cream and summer; and tequila and bad decisions. Another pairing seemingly meant to be is that of Resogun developer Housemarque and veteran arcade game developer, Eugene Jarvis. The result is Nex Machina, a sublime slice of colourful, crazy, retro chaos that takes the intense action and stylings of Smash TV and Robotron: 2084, and gives them the polish of modern day twin-stick shooters. If you lament the lack of pure, unadulterated arcade antics, this is the game for you. In true old-school fashion the narrative elements of Nex Machina are pretty light on…

Format PS4, XO, PC (reviewed) Pub Telltale Dev Telltale ETA Out now Players 1 By the time we reach the end of this third season of the series that put Telltale on the map, fatigue has definitely set in. Despite featuring some of Telltale’s best-ever writing and character work, we find ourselves tired of the two ubiquitous formulas at work here: the beats of the zombie story, and the now well-established and slow-to-change structure of the Telltale game. Despite this story having an almost entirely new cast and location, there’s nothing here we haven’t seen before in The Walking Dead seasons one and two. Survivors coming together as a community, then turning on each other. Baddies with a touch of good and goodies with a touch of bad. Two characters…

“AN EPIC TALE OF LOVECRAFTIAN CONSPIRACIES AND HISTORICAL HORROR SPANNING 2,000 YEARS” Throughout its long history, Nintendo’s cultivated a family-friendly image. Consider a picture of Mario, for instance. He may wear dungarees, carry a spanner, and (most sinister of all) have a moustache , but there’s something just so nice about the little guy. But there was a moment in Nintendo’s history when it didn’t want to be so wholesome, a moment when it was filling out actual applications for a patent on the idea of a sanity meter. A time when Nintendo went dark. The origins By the time Nintendo and Silicon Knights struck up a conversation, the Canadian studio was already known for Legacy Of Kain: Blood Omen, an unapologetically adult game that spun a…

Iconic Boss! Resident Evil 4 Format PC, Wii, GameCube, PS2 Developer Capcom Released 2005 El Gigante is very big – some would even say toobig – but this Plaga-infected beast is no match for floppy-haired agent Leon Kennedy. To prevail, you had to dodge the creature’s massive fists and feet. Best of all, if you offered aid to a distressed dog in the game’s opening mission, the pooch lent a hand in this scrap! Classic Moment! Dino Crisis Format PS1, DC, PC Developer Capcom Released 1999 You might not think that meeting a T. rex in Dino Crisis would be particularly surprising, but Capcom somehow managed to make it scary. You searched the research chief’s room, stepping over his lifeless body to ghoulishly rifle through the dead man’s safe. Then,…

THE MOST DEDICATED TEAM IN THE BUSINESS This battle-tested squad braves the front line of games journalism every day for your entertainment. In many ways, it’s tougher than real war. But, er, in many more ways, it definitely isn’t. Ben Griffin Our senior staff writer has had a taste of true fame this month, after a tweet about the movie Dunkirk unexpectedly went viral. He’s become insufferable, of course, and now spends his work days on the phone to his agent trying to sort out a book deal. What’s your weapon of choice? My army of new Twitter followers Rob Crossland When he’s not living the mind-numbingly dull life of an art editor on an international games magazine, Rob’s disappearing into the thrilling world of a German haulage driver via…

Even the humble Goomba is scarier than people realise. Think about it: it can kill you just by touching you. And I don’t know about you, but I can’t jump very high… Robin Valentine, Editor Skyrim’s frostbite spiders. That would not end well for humanity. Alex Walker, Facebook The final boss in the The Evil Within. Still gives me shivers… Games For Days, @GamesForDays2 Even Bowser would give you the s***s in real life. Drew McDowell, Facebook Trevor from GTAV… Jaster Mereel, Facebook Kirby. He would eat you and steal your soul. Andrew McGrae, @TGNProfessor…

“THE RETURN OF A FAN FAVOURITE, THE FINALE OF A FRANCHISE, AND THE FOLLOW-UP TO A HIT” Telltale has detailed its next wave of narrative-driven adventures. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin our story. First up is Batman: The Enemy Within, following on directly from 2016’s debut. It focuses on both bat and billionaire’s growing relationship with Gotham’s villains. “In season one,” says Batman voice actor Troy Baker in the first footage, “we got a chance to set up some of the villains that people were the most familiar with. But in The Enemy Within we get to see those villains, those monsters, in repose.” Or in other words, when they’re not hamming it up. To defeat rogues like Riddler and John Doe – or ‘the proto-Joker’ – you…

From the people who brought you Don’t Starve comes a game they might as well have called Don’t Suffocate. A sci-fi colony-building sim about mining out a hollow asteroid in space to get the resources you need to make air, food, and water to survive. Leon used to be a scientist (honestly) so this should be easy… 5 MINUTES My off-world exploits start with Gossmann, Travaldo and Hassan. These three brave explorers are ready to start life on a new planet, or in this case in a small hole in an asteroid made of resource blocks. They’re a good-looking bunch, especially Hassan, who appears to be dancing to ‘She’s A Maniac’ in his profile. Remember the good times, my friend, because they won’t last… For example, I can already see…

In terms of coverage, you might think literally the biggest conflict Earth has ever seen reached peak exposure some time ago. It’s a classic story: good guys team up, successfully stop German control freak with dodgy moustache ruling the world, then celebrate with some old timey dancing and fireworks. What more is there to say about the Second World War? How do you portray it both respectfully and entertainingly? And can you make a videogame feel modern in a setting that isn’t? To find out, joined by the heads of Sledgehammer Games, Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, we delve into what could be WWII’s ultimate interactive interpretation. One compelling reason Activision’s industry-dominating shooter returns to WWII for the first time since 2008’s World At War is story. Call of Duty:…

“IN CO-OP MODE, PUNCH WHILE STANDING BEHIND PARTNERS TO FIRE THEM LIKE BULLETS INTO OPPONENTS AHEAD” Format PS4 Publisher Sony Developer Sony ETA 6 September Launching in pride of place with PS4 in 2013, Sony envisioned the original Knack as a 21st century Crash Bandicoot or Spyro, a kid-friendly counterweight to the grown-up likes of Killzone Shadow Fall, Driveclub, and Battlefield 4. It wasn’t. Mark Cerny – Knack II director, PS4 lead architect, and the man sitting next to us on the sofa for a one-to-one demonstration – is honest about its failings. “Part of the thought was that it could be one of those old-school challenges like Crash or Spyro, which are one-hit-kill games and need a lot of precision to get through. Well, it turns out PS4 was…

“YOUR DOG STEALS ENEMY WEAPONS AND BRINGS THEM TO YOU, PANTING HAPPILY” Format PS4, XO, PC Publisher Ubisoft Developer Ubisoft ETA 27 February This is a series with dislocation at its core. Whether it’s being strung out in malaria-ridden Central Africa, trapped on a remote tropical island with crazed mercenaries, or thrust into a neon nightmare populated by dragons and sinister scientists, misplacement is a springboard into creative violence. Story is the vital component, and in the fifth mainline game in the open-world shooter series, Ubisoft turns a traditional framework into the hottest of hot buttons. “We tend to try to surprise,” says Far Cry 5 narrative director Jean-Sébastien Decant. Decant adds, “We fell in love with Montana because of that giant space, the ‘Big Sky Country’, the feel of…

 Format PC, Mobile Developer Ben Esposito ETA Autumn Web http://bit.ly/donutcounty “MAKING THE WORLD FALL INTO A PIT IS EXCEPTIONALLY SATISFYING” What’s your favourite doughnut? Perhaps one with jam inside, or custard? Or maybe one of those gloriously indulgent American peanut butter varieties that sends you soaring through sugary stars before crashing in a sticky heap? Well, good, now that’s out of the way, it’s time to admit that this isn’t really a game about doughnuts at all. Instead you play as, well, a hole. Yep. That’s it. Dough not enter Lone dev Ben Esposito actually took the game’s inspiration from fake Peter Molyneux social media account Peter Molydeux, who once tweeted about a game where you play as a hole. Before he knew it Esposito had run with it and…

 Format Switch Publisher Nintendo Developer Nintendo ETA Out now Players 1-8 “COMBINE THE SPLASHDOWN WITH A SUPER JUMP AND YOU’VE GOT A POTENTIAL TEAM-KILLER” It’s been barely a year since the final whistle blew on the last of the first game’s Splatfests. So if this quickfire follow-up to Nintendo’s gleefully gungy shooter feels familiar, you can understand why. That’s not to say there’s nothing new here; far from it. And while Splatoon 2 does suffer a little from second-man-in-space syndrome – a terrific feat, but less thrillingly new than the first launch – you’ll quickly find yourself engrossed. You’ll grin, you’ll giggle, you’ll grimace. You’ll punch the air in triumph – or maybe the arm of your chair in frustration. Inkopolis, it’s good to be back. Seasoned players can leap…

St-inky Salmonids Killing the rapidly-spawning waves of pan-toting fish is one thing, but clearing up after them is important, too. When things really heat up you’ll need an escape route, and the thick trails of green ink the splattered salmon leave behind can easily leave you prone to missile or bomb attacks from the various boss Salmonids. Clear as you go, if you can. Golden snatch Gathering salmon eggs is your aim. Once you’ve downed a boss, be prepared to quickly pick up the eggs it releases, since Snatcher Salmonids are only too happy to scoop up a couple and scurry back towards the sea with them. As such, it’s sometimes wise to stay by an unguarded egg until a teammate can help haul it back to the net. Boss…

 Format PS4 (reviewed), XO, PC Publisher Codemasters Developer Codemasters, Just Add Water ETA Out now Players 1-12 “SOME SORT OF CHOICE IN WHAT YOU GET TO PLAY AND WHERE WOULD’VE BEEN NICE” When you think about it, it’s weird that there hasn’t been more toy-to-game licensing without a cartoon or movie as a middle man. Videogames – some, at least – are essentially toys that it’s socially acceptable to play with at any age. Don’t stop playing with those little cars just because you are (or should be) far beyond the point where you have the urge to shove them up your nose. Go digital! This game leans heavily on nostalgia, though the more we play, the more apparent it becomes that it wheely needs something more. The first game…

“ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS RANGE FROM FROZEN GROUNDS TO RUDDY BIG SPACE WORMS” Format PS4 (reviewed), XO, PC Publisher Team 17 Developer Mothership Entertainment ETA Out now Players 1 City building games have always run the gamut between zen-like calm and stressful chaos. When everything is ticking along nicely there’s little to do but rub your hands and admire your well-oiled, metropolitan machine, but when things go wrong, they go wrong , snowballing in catastrophic fashion. Aven Colony’s galactic take on the genre leans towards the tranquil most of the time, sometimes to its detriment. In the campaign – in which your general aim of “keep your colony’s inhabitants alive” is accompanied by frequent requests from your advisers – it’s quite easy to breeze through most levels without engaging…

Format PS4 Pub Sony Dev Wish Studios ETA Out now Players 3-6 Who’s most likely to get lost in the woods? Who would come away from pottery class with a grey blob? Who can you see asking the teacher for extra homework? These are some of the questions you’ll nominate friends for in this relationship-testing quiz game. Points-scoring comes by picking the most popular answer. Your smartphone is your controller, and although you have to download a free app to play, it means you can choose answers and send them to the TV with a swipe of the touchscreen, which is basically magic. Questions are actually the dullest bit, often boiling down to ‘who’s the butt of jokes?’. More creative challenges are better. One has you snapping selfies to emulate…

1 Cyber Empires (PC, Amiga, Atari ST – 1992) Silicon Knights first made a name for itself as a purveyor of curious strategy-action hybrid experiences for home computer systems. Its first effort handed players control of a vast cyborg army and split the action into two distinct phases. In the first, players made strategic decisions on a continental map screen. In second, players could assume direct control of a robo-soldier to duke it out with enemy forces. 2 Blood Omen: Legacy Of Kain (PC, PS1 – 1997) In 1993, Silicon Knights’ president made a decision – he wanted to make a game that was targeted directly at adults. He set about crafting a pitch for a densely written fantasy world of vampiric nasties and moral ambiguity, and Crystal Dynamic soon…

Games don’t vanish after they’re released. In many cases, developers support them for months and even years post-launch, adding in new modes, fresh features, and even entire locations – often for free. The following four titles have undergone massive transformations since launch. If you’ve played them, give their latest incarnations another go. And if you haven’t, now’s the perfect time to try them out. ELITE DANGEROUS Space to grow Format PS4, XO, PC Publisher Frontier Developments Developer Frontier Developments Frontier’s space piloting simulation looks mighty different to how it launched on PC in 2014. For one, you can land on planets now rather than gawp at them from thousands of miles away. Transitions are seamless: approach a planet at a shallow angle and you’ll enter a glide. From here you…

Format PS4, XO, PC Developer Hazelight Publisher EA ETA March 2018 Forget all that drop-in/drop-out malarkey. Co-op is the sole focus of this prison break drama, so if you don’t grab a friend, you won’t be able to experience gas station robberies, motorbike chases, and jailbird scraps. Although online-enabled, playing sat next to your buddy is the way to go. Here the screen divides down the middle to show each person what the other’s up to. For instance, as Vincent arrives in a prison bus on the left side of the screen, Leo prowls the yard on the right. Both characters are independent of each other, so while Vincent tenderly touches a family photograph in his cell, Leo absent-mindedly fiddles with his reading light. Jail of a time In fact,…

Format PS4, XO, PC Developer Rebellion Publisher Rebellion ETA November Before Twitter and iPhones, the world was a place of great mystery, and in this thoroughly British four-player co-op shooter from the Sniper Elite studio, you’ll embark on a safari to its most remote corners. This is far from a summer holiday, however. Seteki the witch queen, a ruler so despicable she was wiped from the hieroglyphs, has summoned up an army of evil to take over the world. Now mummies, minotaurs, and hulking great Anubis statues stand between you and your steaming hot cuppas. Mummy dearest Your ancient amulet will come in handy, then. Charge it by shooting enemies and you’ll unleash character-specific havoc. During a hands-on we pick double-barrel shotgun-wielding engineer Gracie Braithwaite, who can instantly dissolve dusty…

Format XO Publisher Annapurna Interactive Developer Aurora 44 ETA Autumn 2018 This stylised survival game tells the story of a character seeking shelter in a sunless world. At the start of the game, an eruption blocks out all natural light, and you’re forced to forge a path in an effort to save your home town from devastation. (Never mind the fact that you, and everything else on the planet, will eventually starve and die without plants.) Bodycount aside, that global devastation looks quite nice, with Aurora 44’s fetching art style managing to make muted colours and faceless people somehow charming. And so you’ll push on through caves and valleys with a torch and trembling hands – but you’re not alone. Souls you encounter out here are actual human players who…

“COMBOS SPACE EXPLORATION WITH SHIP BUILDING, AND ROGUELIKE DEATH WITH RUN-AND-GUN BATTLES” Format PS4, XO, PC Developer Radiation Blue ETA 2018 Web http://bit.ly/gmgenesisalphaone Sometimes indie games just do one thing very, verywell . Super Meat Boy is your one-stop-shop for jumping and spikes. The Witness is all about wandering and those finger puzzles. And what would Braid be without that perfect time mechanic? Then there are the games that want to do everything , all at once. It’s ambitious, but Genesis Alpha One does just that, combo-ing space exploration with ship building, and roguelike death with first-person run-and-gun alien battles. Earth has gone and done that apocalypse thing, and your single ship carries the future of humanity. Launched into a randomly generated universe –…

“SEARING ACTION, ENDLESS COMBOS, LONG LEGS, SHORT SKIRTS, SWORDS, GUNS, GUNSWORDS, GUN-BOOTS, GUNDAMS, AND LUDICROUS STORIES” Sprinting through war-torn streets at 100mph and slicing up bullets with your ninja blade, before hopping over missiles like stepping stones to lunge headlong into the maw of a massive mech dinosaur. Summoning a swirling hair demon to devour an angel, while the heroine winks cheekily at the camera. Sliding like a bodged firework around an arena-like Russian space station, wielding a gun that instantaneously morphs from assault rifle, to rocket launcher, to laser. Searing action, endless combos, long legs, short skirts, swords, guns, gunswords, gun-boots, gundams, and ludicrous stories wrapped in great big blankets of colourful self-awareness. Sweet Raiden on a rocket, PlatinumGames is wonderful, and judging by about 20% of all games-related…

“3V3 BATTLES MIX ARPG PRESENTATION WITH ELEMENTS OF A SPORTS GAME” Format PS4 (reviewed), PC Publisher Supergiant Games Developer Supergiant Games ETA Out now Players 1-2 We love this game, and not just because one of the characters appears to be a dog with a moustache. Almost immediately reminiscent of The Banner Saga, it features a tale told through talking heads, a wagon on a journey, and multiple choices. This is a story and an experience, however, that distinguishes itself in all the right ways. Told in a visual novel style, the story opens with your unnamed character on the brink of death. (Usually it takes us at least a little while to reach that point.) You’ve just finished your journey to the Downside, a dangerous and desolate expanse that…

 Format PS4, XO, PC (reviewed) Publisher Square Enix Developer Sand Sailor Studio ETA Out now Players 1 “BEING SPOTTED MEANS BEING SHOT DEAD, AND MISSING A JUMP MEANS A SWIFT DEMISE” The late ’70s were besieged by space games. Seriously, you couldn’t move for them – gathering at the windows, beating the panes, trying to get in through the air vents… it was a real problem. These days it’s dystopias. In films, on TV, on your Facebook feed, and in your videogames. ‘Art imitates life’ is the lesson. But not all dark visions of the future make for exciting videogames – just ask Homefront. Black The Fall is not Homefront. It’s an intelligent and, at times, brilliant side-scrolling platform-puzzler that will rightly prompt comparisons with Playdead’s Inside, and even has…

N Sane Trilogy implements an array of minor details that all but the most dedicated Crash fans are unlikely to notice. Believe it or not, many of the original versions’ exploits remain intact, allowing experienced players to get the upper hand in grabbing relics and competing on online leaderboards. In one particularly hilarious example, crowds can now be seen chucking cheese at Crash if you try to exploit a glitch to avoid the lions in Tiny Tiger’s boss fight in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. N Sane Trilogy also incorporates a handful of references to original Crash creators Naughty Dog. You’ll find a portrait of Uncharted’s Nathan Drake in the backdrop of Crash’s home in Warped, while Coco can be seen watching the Crash easter egg from Uncharted 4: A Thief’s…

Format 3DS Publisher Nintendo Developer Arzest ETA Out now Players 1 On his way home, plucky Captain Olimar’s ship smashes nose-first into an asteroid and he once again plummets down to an alien planet. Someone get this man some glasses. Fuel supplies of his SS Dolphin II dry, he scours the terrain in search of Sparklium and encounters something far more precious: Pikmin. Okay, so the two have met before – as long ago as 2001’s debut GameCube instalment, in fact – but never like this. It’s miraculous just how well the basic tenets of that 3D real-time strategy make the transition. You prod a whistle icon to gather the ant-like creatures hiding in bushes, launch them at enemies and blockages by tapping the screen, and navigate environments with them…

When it comes to property, they say there are three things that matter: location, location, location. It doesn’t matter if a house is infested with bloodthirsty spectres, it matters that the local schools are well ranked. Don’t worry about the ghouls in the attic, the property’s transport links are a far more crucial matter. And try not to fret about how many murders have been committed in your new home, concern yourself instead with how many juice bars are located within walking distance! With that in mind, why not join us to view a string of bargain homes, each on the market at a remarkably low guide price. Grab that deposit, dial your mortgage provider, and accompany us for one super-spooky open house. Because getting onto the property ladder can…

“HORROR GAMES WORK IN ’90S 3D… YOU’RE NOT QUITE SURE WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT” The tagline for 98Demake’s channel is ‘turning pretty games ugly again.’ It’s true in a way, as he transforms modern games into PlayStation classics, but false in another. Games weren’t ugly in the ’90s. PS1 games shone as perfect examples of the future. We spent hours marvelling at the beauty of Crash Bandicoot’s lush jungles and days obsessed with the intricacies of the original Metal Gear Solid. PS1 games were beautiful in their own way and so, bizarrely, are these recreations. 98Demake is based in Finland. An avid gamer, freelance graphics designer, and 3D visual artist, he’s only been making videos for a few months so far, but his reworkings of GTA V, Red Dead Redemption,…