The Best Ps4 Games Of All Time
The 10 most popular stories of the day, delivered at 5pm UK time. Death in games is so commonplace that it's rarely much more than a nuisance - a blip on your journey, a small stumble on the way. How refreshing, then, to have a game that offers a playful, touching meditation on the ways death has touched the myriad branches of one comically unfortunate family. Arcade isn't dead, of course, regardless of what Housemarque has said of late. And Nex Machina, the death machine, is a brilliant argument for why arcade games will live forever. Yes, we mashed the buttons in panic-stricken rage, but thankfully the on-screen action was still thrilling to behold. You played a young boy with a wooden sword who finds a ghostly young girl trapped in an old fort full of nasty shadow spirits. It was your job to get her out, rather charmingly by holding her hand and escorting her through puzzles and mazes, letting go occasionally to batter back the ghosts. It’s small and meditative, as you gu