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I want fewer cables in my life: Fewer plugs, fewer dongles, and definitely fewer moments spent wondering why something isn’t charging. That’s why I own the ASUS ROG 65W Charger Dock. And for thirty big ones, it can also save you from the cable spaghetti and gives your ROG Ally X or Steam Deck some actual desktop or TV stand respect. It’s down to $29.99 at Best Buy, or £39.99 at Amazon in the UK.
Primarily, Lushfoil Photography Sim is – spoilers – a photography sim. Then it’s a walking sim. Then it’s a photography sim again. Then more walking. Then it’s a photography teacher, and a very calm and cool one at that; the kind that would lay down in liquid mud to shoot a daffodil at just the right angle, then get back up and say “Ahhh, that’s lovely” in a gentle New Zealand accent.
This specific quality accounted for much of my initial interest, being someone who owns a DSLR yet has no clue what half the buttons are for. Lushfoil Photography Sim is a pretty effective instructor, though by choosing a series of stonkingly gorgeous natural beauty spots as its classrooms, it’s even more effective at provoking a general wanderlust that has – repeatedly but quite happily – derailed my studies.
Much coverage of Sid Meier’s Civilization VII has compared the Firaxis 4X to Amplitude‘s 2021 release Humankind. As our dirty turncoat strategy game columnist Sin Vega briefly explores in her review for Eurogamer, the game’s Age structure, which hands you a new culture at intervals in each campaign, is reminiscent of Humankind’s Era transitions.
Developers Firaxis have elsewhere observed that the impression of Civ cribbing notes from Humankind is an unfortunate coincidence. According to an interview with executive producer Dennis Shirk last year, the Civ 7 team came up with the concept on their own, pitching it to parent company 2K Games mere days after Amplitude unveiled Humankind. It’s also, of course, worth reiterating that as a historical 4X, Humankind takes plenty of cues from older Civilizations. Still, Amplitude co-founder Romain de Waubert de Genlis was tickled pink when he saw Humankind cited in Civ 7 reviews. “That was probably the best compliment I ever got when I read some of these articles on Civ 7,” he told me during an interview about Amplitude’s forthcoming Endless Legend 2, adding “I did not see that coming, to be frank.”
I’ve heard things, Microsoft, and I think I’d rather die. About Windows 11, I mean, although there’s also that other stuff. Instead, I’m choosing to escape to the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by enshittification: the past (moon’s done for already). Actual human immortality is due to launch by Q2 of 1999, and then all I’ll have to do is upload my soul to HeavenX. This means I’ll miss both the UK TV debut of The Sopranos and Roy Walker’s final episode of Catchphrase but, eh, swings and roundabouts.
But, wait, there’s anomalies in the system. Typical millennium shit. You know how it is. To fix them, you’ll need to enter cyberspace and play with guns and cards. HeavenX bills itself as an FPS deckbuilder but stands out through 1. Exactly the kind of break beats I like writing to 2. Looking like the inside of your eyelids might if you pressed your fingers into your eyes for a bit after staring at a screensaver for three hours. You bet your sweet Roy Walker’s final episode of Catchphrase I’m down. I couldn’t find a trailer so just look at these cards with me for a bit.
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! While cleaning under my bed recently, I once again discovered my copy of the smallest physical book I have ever owned. It’s a tiny handheld edition of the I Ching. What a wonderful thing. I mean, I haven’t actually read it, but wisdom is owning at least one very small book, is what I assume the gist is.
It’s coming up to a year since V Rising received its 1.0 release, and ahead of that anniversary developer Stunlock Studios shared a trailer earlier this week for the game’s first big update, Invaders of Oakveil. The update itself will be free (nice!), and introduces a whole new area to explore, the titular Oakveil Woodlands, a woodsy area where “corruption” is spreading (not nice).
You can cancel your Elden Ring Nightreign pre-order, you can hold off on picking up a Switch 2 for that inevitable The Duskbloods release, because there’s a pretty good reason to return to the original Dark Souls. Earlier this week, modder extraordinaire Yui released the Dark Souls Remastered seamless co-op mod, which, if you can believe it, allows you to play through the game in online co-op with minimal interruptions.
Almost two years after it was first revealed, Bungie have released a first-look at the upcoming Marathon reboot’s gameplay. And you know what? Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s looking really good! And it’s out September 23rd! Much like the reveal trailer it’s incredibly stylish, there’s this clean, almost Mirror’s Edge like quality to its world, but we’ve had hints of that already. The big thing is the gameplay, which looks like more of that chunky, Bungie, first-person shooting goodness.
I won’t lie, sometimes when I hear a string of words like “beautiful hand-drawn Metroidvania with challenging combat etc., etc.,” my eyes do start to glaze over a bit. It can be a bit buzzwordy! But, gosh, that there The Eternal Life of Goldman looks a bit stunning doesn’t it? It was shown off last month during Nintendo’s Not Switch 2 Direct, but earlier this week it received another trailer offering another look, and more importantly, who’ll be composing it.
