Sketch group Aunty Donna's new parody of Black Mirror's Bandersnatch episode will send you on a 40-minute unskippable walk around Melbourne if you make the wrong choices

Sketch group Aunty Donna’s new parody of Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch episode will send you on a 40-minute unskippable walk around Melbourne if you make the wrong choices

Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch was an ambitious and slickly produced experiment in interactive TV, presenting an episode of the series in the form of a choose-your-own adventure with multiple possible storylines and endings. Aunty Donna’s Bandersketch is… well, a lot sillier. The popular Australian comedy group’s parody version invites you to help them write a new…

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After 9 years of avoiding it, Path of Exile is taking another swing at an old mechanic for its new expansion: ‘This one just kinda felt right’

In the 12 years Path of Exile has been on this Earth, it’s never gone back to an old system and remade it. Game director Mark Roberts tells PC Gamer that there’s a few reasons for that, but mostly it’s a fear that not making something fresh—as Grinding Gear Games has always done—might disappoint its…

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Devs recall ‘sweating bullets’ at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and ‘tough customer’ Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a ‘balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k’

The Beatles: Rock Band was the single greatest thing to come out of the games industry’s plastic instrument craze, an absurdly lavish and beautifully judged tribute to the most important music band in history. It cost me an absolute tonne but I still have an old 360 in the garage somewhere with all the DLC,…

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‘Super Yooka-Laylee Kart Playtest’ Listing Appears On SteamDB After Dev Teases

Plotting something. Yooka-Laylee dev Playtonic Games has been teasing an announcement on social media over the past couple of days, and now a listing for ‘Super Yooka-Laylee Kart’ playtest has appeared via SteamDB (thanks, Gematsu). The listing includes art and a logo, suggesting that the studio’s recent teases (including the couplet “Collecting quills is far…

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PlayStation Blogcast 337: Cast of Medan

Email us at blogcast@sony.com! Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Google or RSS, or download here This week, we’ve got an enlightening interview with two of the minds behind Supermassive’s Until Dawn follow-up, Man of Medan. Plus, Justin reports in with his FFXIV Shadowbringers impressions, and we compare our favorite collections of classic games. Enjoy! Stuff We…

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The Fable reboot won’t have horns and haloes because of its ‘nuanced and complex’ take on morality, and also because you’re going to constantly reinvent yourself

Morality morphing was a big deal in the Fable games of old. Your character would, famously, actually change appearance to match how good or evil they were. Do a lot of murders and you’d grow horns and find yourself surrounded by flies. Help people out (or do a lot of murders but also donate loads…

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An all-new MyTeam experience In NBA 2K21

Hello everyone! Erick Boenisch from Visual Concepts, back once again. It feels like just yesterday that I was writing the MyTeam Developer Diary for NBA 2K20! Writing this piece every year is something I very much look forward to; the team here at Visual Concepts makes it easy with their endless ambition and relentless work…

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