Welcome back to the WIRED Games newsletter, friends! By the time you read this, hopefully those of you in the United States will be prepping for a nice long holiday weekend. Those of you elsewhere, well, I hope you're having a great day, and that the rest of your week goes quickly so you can get back to your video games. Speaking of which, did you choose Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet? My colleague Megan Farokhmanesh is rocking Violet, but I'm going Scarlet, I think. Wish me luck! I've never really been a big Pokémon person, but this one looks like a lot of fun! First of all this week, Will Bedingfield has a great interview with Josh Sawyer, the game director for Pentiment, which is set in 16th-century Bavaria. It's incredibly deep and just might be a sleeper candidate for game of the year. The two talk about Sawyer's inspirations, why he set the game in Bavaria during the early Renaissance, and why we're seeing an explosion of historical games now, after there have been so few for so long. It's a long read but a fun one, and it'll definitely make you consider playing the game. Speaking of Pentiment, Swapna Krishna has also been playing it, and she covered it for her Casual Gamer column this week. She, too, has nothing but praise for Sawyer's creation, cheering on its narrative design for making the game fun to play and fun to follow while asking interesting questions about history, art, and what we really know today about the past. Next up, WIRED contributor Jaclyn Greenberg takes a look at the nonprofit Games for Change, which was founded with the goal of boosting games and game developers who want to build games for social change. From titles like the Google-backed Kind Kingdom, which encourages players to support their friends and stand up against bullying and harassment, to the Holocaust-memorializing Attentat 1942, which puts you in the shoes of Holocaust survivors, the organization has a number of award-winning games in its portfolio. Did you know that with the newest iOS update you can pair your Nintendo Switch's Joy-Cons with your iPhone or iPad? Reece Rogers explains exactly how to do it, and even offers you some suggestions on games to play once you're finished. Turns out there are plenty of games on the iPhone that work great with Joy-Cons, especially if you have subscriptions to either Apple One or Xbox Game Pass. Finally, with major social media platforms imploding, many of us are spending more time over on Discord. But Discord is for more than just games and gaming communities. Reece Rogers has a great rundown on some of the interest-based Discord servers you can join, along with instructions to find others that aren't in his list. But you should definitely start with his list. I've found a few new Discords that way myself. Maybe I'll see you in some of them! Last, but not least, in our Gear news rundown last week, Boone Ashworth notes that there are now games in Microsoft Teams! So if your company or organization uses Teams for meetings instead of Zoom or Google Meet, no one has to know you're goofing off on the side. Give it a try and let us know what you think, yeah? We'll see you right back here next week. |
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