Thanks to the Quakecon sale on Steam, I dipped my toes into Dishonoured 2. I'm not entirely sure how that title skipped me, but it did. I played the first game and thought it was a masterpiece. And the second, particularly running on Ulta on the Steam Deck, is just as marvellous. I've sank a few hours into it over the weekend and look forward to the iterative loop of me being so bad at it that I die over, and over, and over again. Shout out to the visuals and audio design. Absolutely breathtakingly good.

Tabs

• Gaming in the forrest
• Best looking CS2 map yet?. I wasn't expecting a visit to Petra to shine a light (pun intended) on a CS2 map.
• What will the future of gaming look like?
• Excel eSports
• Giantbomb reviews Quake from 1997
• Nintendo registers patents for Tears of the Kingdom including loading screens & physics
• Bitmap books' art of the box
• Luck be a landlord banned by Google
• 8bitdo's latest controller
• The story of Cart Life, the disappeared game!
• Sound design
• Face generator update from an indie
• Recent LTT controversy explained

What I'm playing this week:

• Dishonoured 2.