I’ve fallen in love all over again. The object of my re-affections is Ghost of Tsushima (the PC director’s cut, specifically), but there’s also a damn fine discount on the PS edition today. Please, if it somehow passed you by, give it a crack. Gorgeous-looking. Great characters and plot. The ability to insta-kill multiple idiots with a quickdraw mechanic. What more do you even need?

In retro news, I’ve baked a big “12” cake for Tokyo Jungle, a PS3 cult-hit that’s criminally under-loved and under-remastered. How can I explain this to you in a way that doesn’t make it sound like a fever dream? Humans have just vanished overnight, and it’s every city-based animal—cat, dog, bird, race horse, zoo-escaped lion—for itself. Yep, it’s rogue-lite survival as you try to game the food chain, feast upon the delicious calories of predators well out of your league, and then find some nookie to breed the next generation of Mad Maximals before your 15-year timer is up. Clocking Soulslikes is fun and memorable for me—but not even they have matched the sense of pride I felt when forging a line of Pomeranians into apex wolf-killers with a decades-long reign of terror behind them.

This Day in Gaming

Aussie birthdays for notable games.

– Street Fighter Alpha 3 (ARC) 1998. Remaster

– Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (GBA) 2003. Ebay

– Tokyo Jungle (PS3) 2012. Ebay