Club PA Newsletter #57 (Patreon)

When I saw Starlink during Ubisoft's E3 offensive, I was prepared to not give a shit - a policy I maintained until I saw Gabriel feasting on it, seated on the couch where he occasionally feasts on things.  

The genre called "Toys To Life" - which might just as well be called the "Skylanders Genre" because even Disney can't make this shit work - just makes me itch in general.  The idea of toys whose soul is conditional in some way, toys beholden to the chaos winds of the market to retain access to their True Form, just feels a little weird.  That's why I found it novel that Starlink doesn't even require you to own the toys - there's a version of the game that's purely digital, one that offers heaps of customization and amusement straight away without the realspace Hunt that accompanies the rest of the genre.  

It wouldn't matter especially if the game weren't interesting, but I'll be damned if Gabe isn't playing some kind of Star Fox slash No Man's Sky mashup thing on his Switch and it looks cool as hell.  If my Switch weren't stuffed for the Aus flight, I might have snatched it myself after what I saw.  Speaking o' which... 

PAX Aus!  I will be down to see you very shortly.  VERY shortly.  I leave tomorrow.  I'm very excited to get down there and go to a bunch of favorite spots I have which are incredibly inconvenient to visit the rest of the year. Here's what you should know: 8:00pm, Friday, Fruit Bat Theatre.  I'll see you then!