While GTA will likely light up most feeds, the Game Awards happened and that had a few bombs dropped, as you'd probably imagine. Sega announcing 5 games (Crazy Taxi and Jet Set.. let's go!), Kojima collaborating with Jordan Peele (keep in mind his last proper horror was PT), Rocket Racing from the Rocket League folks, Blade coming from Arcane & Light No Fire from Sean Murray. Among many others.

As we see 2023 wrap up content coming from the entertainment world, it's hard to really contextualise how good 2023 was for gaming. The current generation settled in, content production picked up post-Covid and we saw Steam Deck properly bring PC games (notably indies like Dredge or Dave the Diver) to a whole new audience. I'll write my thoughts up as we get towards EOY, but it's been a wonderful one.

Tabs

• The Hidden Politics of TLoU part II. Israeli & Palestinian conflict inform the world building.
• Cyberpunk 2.1 update. Ride the metro, listening to tunes and ... date?
• Adventure game basics. Tutorial for making your own!
• Sony removing content people paid for
• Bad Peach designs
• Fallout teaser
• Vampire Survivors Adventures coming!
• Peakers advantage in CS2
• GiantBomb at Nite
• Polygon's top 50 of the year
• What happened with insecticide?
• Tut Tut port for RC2014 (cpm)
• EA lays off talent at Codemasters
• Analogue Pocket firmware
• Every reveal of TGA23

What I'm playing this week:

• High on Life
• Retrowave
• Jusant
• Cocoon