What’s on your bookshelf?: Obsidian vet and Pentiment creator Josh Sawyer

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Did you know that the word ‘book’ was originally spelled with several extra ‘o’s in it? This was changed when it was collectively decided that telling someone to “please, just read a book” was resulting in several more murders a year than anyone could be bothered to keep track of. This week, it’s Obsidian vet and Pentiment creator Josh Sawyer! Cheers Josh! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?

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Nightmare Kart, the Bloodborne-inspired PSX-styled racing game, is out now

I haven’t played Bloodborne and so references to its world or characters mean little to me. Kart racers, meanwhile? There I’m in my element due to a lifetime of Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. It’s those games that make me interested in Nightmare Kart, a PSX-aesthetic racing game which was formerly known as Bloodborne Kart, and which is out now.

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Wolcen: Lords Of Mayhem won’t receive new updates and its multiplayer will switch off in September

It feels as if every action-RPG can be described in terms of its relationship to genre daddy Diablo. Wolcen:Lords Of Mayhem, for example, launched a few months after Diablo 4 was announced and helped to satiate some early click cravings. Briefly.

Early positive sentiment was quickly scuppered by bugs, slow updates and more. Now its developers say that they’re ending support for the game, and multiplayer functionality will be switched off this September.

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