F1 25 review

Sebastian Vettel once said over the radio: “We have to remember these days because there’s no guarantee they will last forever.” There’s an odd feeling of that here, and not only due to F1’s stablemate WRC being ‘paused’ by EA. Rather, 2016’s genius revamp of the career mode was arguably perfected in 2018 and here…

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This Little-Known Evangelion Fighting Game Has Been Preserved

Evangelion The Fighting Impact Rebuild launched on mobile in Japan. Preserving Japanese phone games is a tricky and often underappreciated process. These titles weren’t distributed physically but as digital downloads via services such as i-mode, so tracking them down and ensuring they’re not lost forever as hardware dies is effectively a race against time. While…

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CDPR didn’t put harsh themes in Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 ‘for the sake of edginess’, but because ‘you’re probably not making art’ if the devs are never challenged

It’s not exactly news that Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 both grapple with heavy-hitting themes—but there are a few stand-out moments that can really crawl under your skin. For me, just about all of ol’ 2077 was a bit of an existential nightmare, though it was one I was thoroughly enthralled by. Speaking to…

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Dragon Age creator says EA execs thought BioWare fans would eat whatever slop they were given since ‘the nerds in the cave would always show up for an RPG, because it was an RPG’

Peter Mandelson, the oleaginous right-hand of Tony Blair’s Labour Party in the late ’90s, once remarked to a colleague that the party had no need to focus on its traditional voter base, and could safely dedicate itself to chasing more affluent, middle-class, conservative voters. After all, said Mandelson, its base had “nowhere else to go”….

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“You Can Throw Bananas Around” – F1 Champ Playfully Suggests Monaco Should Embrace The Chaos Of Mario Kart

“Honestly, we were almost doing Mario Kart”. If you’re a keen follower of Formula One, then you’ll know that the Monaco GP is one of the most famous races on the calendar—even though it’s ironically one of the less exciting races. The principality’s narrow, winding streets weren’t designed for racing super-fast, open-wheel cars, and, as…

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