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Good Games Writing: July 18, 2020
The best games writing from around the web. Good Games Writing Weekly is a round-up of the best writing on games and related fields from around the web. Some themes may be for older audiences.
Kingdom Hearts, Assassin’s Creed to receive the comics treatment later this year
Nothing new for heavy hitting franchises. A pair of major gaming franchises got picked up for the manga and comics treatment recently. Yen Press announced they acquired a rights to produce manga based on Kingdom
Xbox says you, the player, are the future of gaming
Play anything, anywhere Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division, released a sprawling mission statement this week. At the core of it, one message was clear: The future of gaming belongs to you.
Super Mario gets a board game birthday with Hasbro crossovers
Monotonous Monopoly. The legendary plumber turns 35 this year and while the world waits with bated breath for news of a rumoured re-release of the greatest Mario games, Nintendo has instead been preparing cross-branded collaborations
Choice and consequences in the Underground
Breaking the fourth wall. Why would kids actively enjoy steeping themselves in the worlds of happy-go-lucky characters whose lives are disrupted and ripped apart instead of being creeped out and scared? How is it that
Google Meet will soon see an expanded toolset
Zoom zoom. Google has been playing with its Google Meet videoconferencing tool throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, even adding some of its enterprise level tools to free accounts, and upgrading the security of education users to
Celebrate the sounds of Overwatch with a new Sigma skin and album
Don’t get lost in Anubis. Overwatch is celebrating all things musical with its latest event. Sigma’s Maestro Challenge will see players battling it out to earn a new icon, emote, and skin, offering up a
Civ VI’s ‘Ethiopia Pack’ introduces vampires, leader personas
Changes big and small. Civilization VI will continue its quest for world domination for the next year and the latest part of the New Frontier Pass keeps raising the stakes. Details on the society at
LEGO NES interacts with LEGO Mario, out next month
Prestige branding. LEGO and Nintendo are coming together to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System with a massive LEGO set building the console, life-size controller, a Game Pak, and a ‘playable’ tube
Canada, China, and Spain lead list of new UNESCO geoparks
15 overall new additions. A stunning array of new sites have been designated UNESCO Global Geoparks, recognizing their “international geological significance”, UNESCO announced late last week. Canada, China, and Spain lead the pack with two
