GamesReviewPC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; Firaxis/2K
Making good use of the comics, this turn-based strategy games gives players satisfyingly fiendish challenges – and room to chillax afterwards
Playing a turn-based strategy game developed by genre leader Firaxis, creator of the brilliant XCOM reboots, there were several things I did not expect to be doing. I did not foresee having to sort out the love life of macho vampiric superhero, Blade. I didn’t expect to be joining a book club with Captain Marvel (first read: Sun Tzu’s Art of War). Read More...
The Pink House on Loch Glass. Photograph: Stuart KennyThe Pink House on Loch Glass. Photograph: Stuart KennyScotland holidaysBBC show The Traitors featured beautiful glens, castles, forests and peaks as a backdrop for its scheming contestants. But where was it?
As I arrive on the southern tip of the aptly named Loch Glass, the snow-capped ridge line of Meall Mór is perfectly mirrored in its still waters. “What a day for it,” I say to the only other group of hikers currently in sight in this silent corner of Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands. Read More...
The ‘Y2K aesthetic’ has thousands of fans on Facebook and thousands more on Tumblr. Photograph: Babe 2000, by Faiyaz JafriThe ‘Y2K aesthetic’ has thousands of fans on Facebook and thousands more on Tumblr. Photograph: Babe 2000, by Faiyaz JafriInternetFrom fashion and architecture to music and art, the optimism and techno-utopianism of the early 2000s found its way into every element of design
In the year 2000, a shiny new millennium spread out before us, glittering with the promises of modern technology. Read More...
