Chris, Alex and Marsh ponder penguin chicanery, Destiny’s destiny, dialogue-by-card-deck in Signs of the Sojourner, conversation-as-combat in Griftlands, redeem Mass Effect: Andromeda, resist scratching tingles and rejoice at Desperados III.
- What is shape? Shape is crime.
- What is going on with Aiball / Penguin Cretins? Gamesindustry.biz have talked about it here.
- A Monster’s Expedition – the game our Pip worked on – has a demo out! Lovely!
- Be a bally and do a rolly in Stanley Kubrick’s Tiny Wings aka EXO ONE. Also demo-able.
- Destiny 2: put this mess in a box! Then serve up more.
- You might call Bungie’s plan for Destiny 2… vaulting ambition! Ha! Ha! Ha!
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- Imagine being inside the McCartney Destiny Song. Emotional.
- As mentioned last week: Wide Ocean Big Jacket is super, super lovely. It’s also available from Steam.
- Another shout-out for John Walker’s indie curation site Buried Treasure.
- Weirdo puzzler, Ethereal is on itch.io and Steam.
- Conversational card game, Signs of the Sojourner! Itch. Steam.
- Nice game journo man, Chris Schilling.
- Conversation-as-combat in Griftlands!
- Enjoy the beeping and the wooshing of Mass Effect: Andromeda.
- Spread it on toast. Add a chunk of stilton. Perfect. It’s Desperados III.
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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.