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Text reading "Get Your Game On Wednesdays" overlaid on a screenshot of Chloe, Steph, and Mikey playing a tabletop RPG in Life is Strange: Before the Storm.

Welcome to another Wednesday! I have been preoccupied with other tasks and haven’t had time to play games recently, other than terrible phone games. I’m deep into season three of Love Island The Game 2, which is… I mean… it’s like… I guess it’s okay, but it lacks season two’s awful dramatics and entirely lacks the charm of Love Island The Game. I’ve also just learned that there’s a Too Hot to Handle game, which so far is pretty dull. Why are all these people so respectable? This is not what reality TV is for!

Anyway, here’s what’s been going on in the news lately.

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alt="A screenshot of the opening of Shining in the Darkness"

Thornwood has a problem. And the problem branches off into many discrete lines. Except they are all connected, and the root of all of them is the doorway into the Labyrinth Proper. And I think you know it.

A proper labyrinth has one meditative path. Ours is a maze. You see the difference?

A kingdom may lie over the bones of ravaged knights, but it cannot rest over them.

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Sidequest - Postgame.17: Shit-Ass Wuss Man
Postgame.17: Shit-Ass Wuss Man
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Welcome back to Postgame, Sidequest’s monthly Patreon-exclusive podcast, where the editors lay down hot takes on cold games. This month, we discuss the games that had the most impact on us in 2021. We played (and didn’t play) Disco Elysium, Paradise Killer, various Sherlock Holmes games, Cozy Grove, Nier, Fitness Boxing 2, Breath of the Wild and more.

Yes we did record this well over a year ago, why do you ask?

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Clip transcript below the cut.



A screenshot from Journey showing two red-robed figures wearing scarves running and flying over a scenic desert in oranges and yellows. Journey, thatgamecompany, 2012.

With summer’s arrival, temperatures are rising for those of us in the northern hemisphere and no, don’t think too hard about why it’s so hot or what that strange haze in the air is. Instead, let’s think about summer! What better way to get away from it all than to dream up your very own queer commune, filled with all your gaming faves? That’s exactly what the Sidequest squad is doing for this month’s roundtable!

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