Pushing Buttons: from the Witcher to Uncharted, these are the best (and worst) games about love
In this week's newsletter: unlike films or music, not many games are preoccupied with romance - who gets it right?
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Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! In the spirit of carrying my perennial real-world lateness over into this newsletter, let's talk about love, even though it is now 15 February and everyone will instantly forget about romance again until this time next year. As 500 different articles will already have reminded you this week, so much of the art that we humans make is about wanting someone you can't have, having someone you don't want, missing someone you once had, or sometimes even how much we like person/people we're actually with. Not so with video games, though. Games are different. Very few of them are preoccupied with love.
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