Stop the world, I want to get off and run a video rental store in the 1990s | Dominik Diamond ⊕
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Retail sims aren’t my thing, but the tactile, nostalgic pleasures of hit indie title Retro Rewind have me yearning for the era of physical media, smoking indoors and uncomplicated geopolitics
It’s ea…
46 days ago
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With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur movies
I spent Valentine’s Day not with my wife but with 18…
74 days ago
At a family gathering over Christmas, I took on my 76-year-old mother once again at virtual bowling. Could I finally best her?
My mother bore me. My mother nurtured me. My mother educated me. She has …
3 months ago
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There was no shortage of fun and video games in the Diamond household in the last 12 months. Which ones did we play so much our thumbs hurt? And which one saved my soul? Let the ceremony begin …
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4 months ago
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It’s always crushing when a wildly anticipated game turns out to be a dud, but this RPG’s awful story and clunky dialogue gave my son and I something to talk about
It was an exciting November for the…
5 months ago
When our family board game night got cancelled, I sampled digital spins on the classics instead. I’m not sure I should have bothered – with one exception…
I don’t play video game versions of board gam…
6 months ago
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I tried my hand at this year’s French arthouse gaming hit, but after an intense initial infatuation, the relationship hit the rocks
We don’t just observe art; we have a relationship with it. Whether i…
7 months ago
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I’ve been playing Wheel World. It’s silly hipster fun, but I’d rather get on my real bike and ride. Where are the cycling equivalents of Crazy Taxi or Road Rash?
I have spent a week trying to save the…
10 months ago
I used to mock my wife for spending hours playing the candy-sorting mobile games, now I’m up to my neck in fizzy bottles of shame. It’s like Waiting for Godot with gummy bears instead of tramps
As lon…
11 months ago
The Lake District after the 1957 Windscale nuclear disaster is a great setting for a game – and gorgeously rendered. That doesn’t mean I want to endlessly keep traversing it
‘Fast travel”. The greates…