Plus, the games we weren’t allowed to play as little’uns
You wouldn’t know because shehardlyevermentionsit, but Alice Bee is not a Ready Player One fan. In fairness, the newly revealedOpen(or Opthreen), an RPO-themed metaverse battle royalething, does look, sound, feel, and smell horrible, so a solid chunk of this week’s Electronic Wireless Showpodcastis just us despairing over it. But there’s also some honest-to-goodness games chat, as we field a question from EWS listener Pete (thanks Pete!) on the games our younger selves were parentally forbidden from playing – and how we feel about them as ostensible grownups.
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Music is by Jack de Quidt.
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This weekwe’ve been playingpreviews ofAscendant InfinityandThe Finals Season 2, and have explored the floating bones ofChasing the Unseen.
Recommendationsthis week are the grim yet fascinating podcastWho Trolled Amber?, andTenacious D’s cover of Hit Me Baby One More Time.
