There used to be a time when you could impress your family by loading up Google Maps, finding a childhood memory, and zooming in until it became a sort of pixellated memory lane. Your mum and dad would be amazed, and you would be lauded because you showed them their old shed viewed from a satellite on the same thing they use to look up recipes.

I thought I was past that sort of technology-as-magic reaction, but since I tried out Google Earth VR on my Vive I’ve been shoving it on visitor’s faces ever since. It s magic.

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Robots! Sneaking! Hacking! Dying! So. Much. Dying. The Swindle is a roguelike sneak ’em up that gets far too repetitive far too quickly, but I do like how most of those deaths are preceded by greed.

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By my estimates, roughly seven trillion so-called roguelikes have come out since Edmund McMillan first offered up The Binding Of Isaac back in (oh no) 2011. But you can’t keep McMillan and his naked infant children out of the basement for long. The Legend Of Bum-bo, a strange deckbuilding/match-four mashup painted in cardboard, embarks on its gross-out adventure today.

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Like a dream that just won’t stop repeating, Pillow Castle’s peculiar perspective puzzler Superliminal hasn’t quite left my mind since I first saw an early prototype back in 2014. Today, five years later, Superliminal has found its way to store shelves, bringing its fascinating concept to the public.

Here’s the deal: however large an object looks relative to the environment while you’re holding it is how large it’ll be when set down. Pick up a pencil and look to the far wall, and it’ll grow to rival even the pride of Keswick. That’s forced perspective, that is.

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A chemistry teacher once tried to teach me what a molecule is, but it didn t stick, thanks to my chronically slippery brain which refuses to retain useful information. Please correct me in the comments below, but as far as I understand the situation, molecules are like atoms but larger and with some fun accessories. If atoms are footballs, let s say, then molecules are those big nets filled with footballs you see hanging outside shops in seaside towns. Some molecules are good and clump together to form chemicals we like, such as water and sunshine. Other molecules are horrible and conspire to form the things we hate, like bad dreams and dangerous knock-out gases.

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Teamfight Tactics had an overhaul with the introduction of set 2. One of the bigger changes is that Riot have now wiped every single champion origin and trait and replaced them with a brand new set. It’s time to relearn everything you know about how traits work in TFT.

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Well, it turns out that Teamfight Tactics set 2 brought on so many changes that it’s the equivalent of a new game. Every champion has been altered or replaced in some fashion, meaning that the meta has been forever changed overnight. So it’s time to learn everything about TFT’s champions all over again.

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It began with the Sword of the Divine, but now many more items have been changed since the introduction of TFT set 2. A whole host of new items and altered recipes mean that every, single TFT cheat sheet needs an update, in particular, the alterations to many of the Spatula based item combinations.

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Landlords might currently forbid me from owning a pooch of my own, but Sokpop’s Pupper Park lets me become one instead. There’s comfort in that, I think. Put aside the troubling concerns that come with being human. Ditch work, to hell with the groceries. Let’s go chase a ball, harass some toads, irritate the hell out of every other pup in a colourful park for a glorious ten minutes.

Nobody even needs clean up the mess.

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Origin Access subscribers will not get to play Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order before launch but will receive cosmetic trinkets instead. Early access to new games is one of the marquee features of EA’s service, with a ten-hour trial usually available for Basic subscribers and the full game for Premier members. EA claim they’re changing the usual deal for this one because of a terrible fear of spoilers, and so are offering skins for your robopal and spaceship instead. Hmm. Weird. Suspicious. But while I can’t imagine story spoilers meaning a damn in Star Wars these days, I do think the spectacle of Star Wars is best as a surprise.

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