I attended an all-girls Catholic high school. Religion then, for me, is complicated. It's always been a set of guidelines: don't do bad things, treat others the way you want to be treated. But, by the end of my time at school, I had seen its uglier side. The people who claimed to be good Catholics bullied other girls for being of a different race; they cast out queer people simply for loving the people they loved. Yet, nothing was ever done about it. Why - how could the acolytes of something so inherently good be so inherently bad? It's a question I've asked myself many times during my life: one that I silently, relentlessly seek an answer to. My faith has waned over the years (the degree in genocide history didn't do much to help), but the interest is still there - the silent sense of awe at religious imagery and architecture; the spiritualism, the reverence. It's why I found myself so attracted to Indika. Trigger warning: this article contains passing reference to sexual violence. Reader discretion is advised.

I bought a PS4 solely to play the first game, so you can bet that I was all in when Death Stranding 2 was finally announced. The sequel is everything a follow-up should deliver, expanding the world while still nailing the narrative themes, but also changing the gameplay just enough that it's still fantastic. The PS5 console-exclusive made me laugh, cry, and become frustrated during intense deliveries, and now, Death Stranding 2's PC port has got me feeling all of those things once again.

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Crimson Desert has got off to a shaky start. After launching to huge hype, Pearl Abyss' latest has received mixed reviews from critics and users alike, and has had its fair share of controversy, including its "unintended" use of AI art and problems with janky controls. However, perhaps the most surprising issue of all was that it launched with a complete lack of support for Intel Arc GPUs. Now, the company has promised that it's working on that support, but I can't help but wonder if it has missed the boat on convincing latecomers to buy the game. For full context, Crimson Desert has, by most measures, been a smash hit, with it being the top-selling game on Steam right now and having 192,351 players active as I type, peaking at 248,530 concurrents today. Most game developers would be over the moon at that sort of success. However, there's a distinct sense that many of us will have long since moved on by next week, and that anyone who missed out on playing the RPG at launch because it wouldn't run on their Intel Arc system might wait for the next big thing instead.

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