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Revenge of the Savage Planet Review: A cheery and densely-packed co-op metroidvania

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By Jon Hicks
| VGC Verified
Revenge of the Savage Planet sets out to do a lot of things, and it succeeds at nearly all of them. It’s a metroidvania, but there are survival elements, and a potentially quite elaborate combat system based on its variously-powered goo, which is also used for puzzle-solving. There’s a creature-capturing mechanic, and a resource-harvesting system, a lot of actually quite good third-person platforming and a base-building system.
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‘Games are a work of art’ - Inside the new museum that’s putting Mario up against Michelangelo

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By Jon Hicks
| VGC Verified
Rome, the birthplace of Western civilisation and home to world-famous historical artefacts from thousands of years of human history, is an ambitious spot to launch a games museum. The local competition is as strong as they come. In 2012, VIGAMUS did it anyway, based on the conviction – expressed by director Marco Accordi Rickards – that games should be considered in the same way as more traditional museum material. “Games are a work of art expressing culture,” he says.
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Daryl Dixon: Book of Carol Moulin Rouge

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By Jon Hicks
| The Game of Nerds Podcast
A couple things to go over to start, watch out for spoilers. Paramount Plus loaded all the episodes by accident and then tried to quickly delete them but some people downloaded them and have been sharing spoilers. It makes things a bit tough because I wanted to speculate on some things but it’s hard with knowing some things that I didn’t want to be subjected too. Secondly, this episode highlights a big problem with a 6 episode season.
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