Matt Peckham: "It's a great time to be sad in video games. Take Fumito Ueda's magisterial The Last Guardian, which explores a harried creature's cheerless odyssey through wrack and ruin. Or Giant Sparrow's What Remains of Edith Finch, which chronicles the slow and strange near-extinction of a family over more than a century. There's Playdead's Inside, which wraps its Mengele-ian discoveries in Kafkaesque gloom. And Thomas Brush's Pinstripe posits a horrible hereafter sprung like a Jungian trap. Even Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with dazzling vistas on par with a Studio Ghibli flick, feels shot through with sorrowful tones."
Fanatical just launched a new bundle that supports Safe in Our World. All of the proceeds go to charity to support mental health awareness.
Greysun writes:
The Nintendo Switch gets bombarded with many, many ports. But most of them actually run pretty well, with only a couple that we would call bad Switch ports.
While I agree with the majority on this list Bloodstained is far from a bad port. Sure it doesn't run as fast as the other more powerful machines and has some sacrifices made to the graphics to keep the game running smooth. But some of the errors that are being mentioned can be patched and addressed. The game is still fun to play, it's not like it's broken or anything.
Ark should have never been released the way it is on the Switch. The game is so so bad.
It's purely down to the incompetence of the Devs. Just go and look at how more demanding games have successfully been ported to Switch and then you have proof that these are just poorly done.
Neil writes: "The start of the month can only mean one thing - you've got money to burn and Xbox games to buy. Bit of luck then that the latest Xbox Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale is kicking into play, with bargains galore hitting the Xbox Store to ensure Xbox 360 and Xbox One titles can be had on cut-price terms. But what games are being slashed in price between the 2nd-8th July 2019?"
