I may be a couple years too late to say this, but in the unlikely (or likely, depending who you ask) event of a second trip to “Loch Down”, Gartic Phone (developed by Onrizon Social Games) is one of the best free-to-play games for your socially-distanced needs! And stay tuned for a few of my own Gartic Phone highlights!

First, you fire up your laptop, search for Gartic Phone via your preferred search engine, be it Bing, Ecosia, or even Rule34 if you’re in a particularly good mood and would like to ruin it! Then punch in your username, share the room link to three or more mates and Bob’s your uncle! Prepare to enter The Fun Zone!

The Fun Zone (Gameplay): First off, you get to type up a silly prompt for someone to draw. If you’re not creative enough to come up with something yourself, no trouble, an example prompt will pop up until you start typing. Once the time limit to write is finished, you then use Microsoft Paint-like drawing tools to attempt bringing someone else’s prompt to life. Alternatively, you have to guess and type in a prompt to interpret what fresh-hell of cubist insanity someone else drew before you! The end result is a show reel revealing how how hilariously right or wrong everyone got it!

The results are especially rib-tickling if you and your mates are playing with Discord or other voice chat apps in the background to get the best reactions to a picture followed by hilariously unrelated prompt or prompt followed by stick figures in awkward situations.

Various game modes with different rules or adjustments let tailor your improvised competitive shenanigan sessions to you and your friends’ preferences.

1. Normal: As discussed up-top.
2. Knock-Off: Replicate drawings while the clock gets faster.
3. Secret: Your creations are hidden till the grand finale.
4. Animation: Create animations with others.
5. Icebreaker: Ask questions and let your drawings run wild.
6. Complement: You start with basic lines and see the other players’ interpretation.
7. Score: Attempt to gain the highest score.
8. Speedrun: Speedrunning is Awesome, Here’s Why.
9. Sandwich: Start writing and drawing until the end.
10. Crowd: 15+ player battle royale!
11. Background: Create a fixed background for your animations.
12. Solo: Make animations in just five frames.
13. Custom: Does what it says on the tin!

Gartic Phone is available on PC and Mobile in many languages (including Hebrew, Persian, Korean, and Vietnamese).

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Oh, Konami! You sweet, adorable, totally not cartoonishly inept company who dashed the hopes of a Silent Hill sequel featuring Kojima and Del-Toro on the rocks of… Well, not the profit motive, that’s for sure!

Konami forgot to renew it’s rights to the official Silent Hill website domain, leading to a substantially more business savvy individual buying rights to the website from right under the company’s nose. Will things stay like this? The answer is yes, but actually no, but definitely maybe!

Konami does own the rights to Silent Hill (much to the dismay of the fanbase), so they may be able to reacquire the website in the future. Oddly enough though, this isn’t K-Dawg’s first rodeo with not bothering renewing websites of it’s IPs (intellectual property), so I wouldn’t be too worried.

What happened to SilentHill.com? Besides replacing every asset and link with a single screenshot of The Famous Pyramid Head Tweet (that was a fun one to write about), the meta description reads “He Was First”. Perhaps Masahiro Ito had some prior knowledge of this little prank, or it’s generally referring to the designer’s agreement with many fans that Silent Hill games dropped in quality the further they got from the third one.

On a related note, Konami announced sometime last year that games from “new and existing IPs” will be in development in collaboration with BlooberTeam, an indie game company. Will Konami try to replace the ‘P’ in CPUs to stand for ‘Pachinko’? Will BlooberTeam touch their hearts enough to magically make them gift Kojima with the Metal Gear Solid rights on Christmas Day? Find out next time on Dragonball Z!

Product Poems:

Apex Legends. Cokemilk Champions! Racing too? Hell yeah bro!

Gran Turismo 7. Vrewm. Shooty shooty bang-bang? Doom

There was once a young woman called Aloy, who’s south-end faced west like McCoys! Surely forbidden, so purely well-hidden, till coming under Lottie‘s employ.

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Mortal Kombat! B’du, b’du, b’du, b’du, du du du- FOIGHT!

Mortal Kontext: Okay, so I imagine even most of the boomer-shooter crowd know the main gist of things. The warriors of Earthrealm have to defeat the big bad warriors of Outworld lead by Shang Tsung and Shao Cartilage in a tournament, otherwise it’ll cause The End Of The World! Cut to last 3 recent Mortal Kombat games where the bad guys had the bright idea of exploiting a loophole in the divinely-mandated Geneva Conventions and fights being more story-driven outside of the standard tournament layout, so now that leaves us questioning what kind of story Mortal Kombat 12 will tell next.

And those who read my 5 Brilliant Gaming Stories may remember me touching on Jade and Kotal Cartilage’s relationship as being oddly nuanced for a game about increasingly absurd methods of disembowelment and ultraviolence to a degree that would make the Marquis De Sade blush… Well, turns out Jade was always a girlboss feminist since the early days of the series if this handy-dandy clip is anything to go by! +5 Woke Points to you NetherRealm!

Where Could The Story Go? Based on Mortal Kombat 11’s ending (psst! You can get it with a Scorpion movie bundle right hyaa), things seemed relatively open-ended with the exception of that general multiversal timetravel shenanigans. MK11 largely saw handfuls of old-school characters being brought to the “current” timeline, so another logical step would be pulling an Endgame-level reversal of all the older “karacters” having to go back to the past like Samurai Jack! Or maybe a Kill Bill-meets Back To The Future riff depending how things shake out. Alternatively, some theorised the next game will be a prequel or soft-reboot retelling of the first game.

What About The Fight Fighters! While the exact roster hasn’t been released yet, the game is said to feature some 50 ‘Kombatants’, which is a relief to me considering how tiny MK X was. Personally, I’d like to see a Mortal Kombat Ultimate set-up featuring all the main casts from every game!

An Unlikely Unhinged Ask: Mr Boon? Johnny T? Bryke? Incredibly unlikely, but on the 0.01% chance this makes it’s way to you… Avatar Legend of Aang/Korra ‘Kombatants’. Would it work out!? Could it work out? I know it’s technically “a kids show”, but if PUBG can crossover with Baby Shark, maybe one day we’ll see Toph pulling a Melon Lord-inspired Friendship, or Katara chastising Skarlet for her own use of blood bending! Think of the possibilities.

Product Poems:

Apex Legends. Cokemilk Champions! Racing too? Hell yeah bro!

Gran Turismo 7. Vrewm. Shooty shooty bang-bang? Doom

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As there’s soon to be an Activision Blizzard-shaped hole in my heart due to the powers that be, let’s see what fresh hell is getting cooked up at Ubisoft!

A Better Ubisoft, a collective of current and ex Ubisoft workers to end abuse in the company and gaming industry, have posted criticisms of how a recent internal Ubisoft survey only discussed via summary video with few to no specific claims about employee satisfaction (the supposed goal of the survey). The video was shared internally amongst Ubisoft employees, narrated by Anika Grant.

“With the exception of participation and engagement scores, the talking points were delivered with no numbers […] there were vague statements like, ‘You told us…’ or ‘We heard from you..’ This gives no way of knowing whether the statement that ‘you have managers who are approachable and supportive’ means 95% feel this way or 51% — starkly different outcomes”. – A Better Ubisoft.

Why So Vague iBhard? Saying some issues in the survey were “above the external benchmarks for general industry” and then preceding to not elaborate in the slightest isn’t exactly the best look. Needless to say, this ain’t it chief Grant!

Ironic that you allegedly admitted the largest issues brought up in the survey were about transparency and accountability… And then didn’t give a single second of lip-service to the 4 key demands A Better Ubisoft has been making for the last 200 days. The key demands still haven’t been met and Ubisoft employee requests for the survey results are pending.

There have also been reports of past internal message threads with the company being ignored, even after times Ubisoft itself explicitly asked for worker feedback on things.

This Paragraph Was Written By A Racially Diverse Team Made Up Of Various Faiths, Genders and Orientations, So How Could We Possibly Be Bad? Said Ubisoft to literally any criticism of internal systematic racism, sexism, homophobia and harassment! In a world where the folks at PlayStation managed to fire a major figure at the company for attempted kiddy-fiddling within HOURS, there’s literally no excuse for abusers like Hughues Ricour, Tommy Francois or Adrien Gbinigie to maintain high positions of employment after allegations that would make Harvey Weinstein blush!

And don’t even get me started on the “female characters are more difficult and expensive to animate” debacle from a couple years back, but sufficient to say, it’s a lot less expensive when you divert your budget from jiggle-physics to internal networking to replace known abusers you should’ve fired years ago.

And with that legally mandated anti-corporate ventilation out of the way, it’s Product Poem time baby:

WW3, 2o22! Numerical spoonerism!

Gran Turismo 7. Vrewm. Shooty shooty bang-bang? Doom

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