The player had been traversing the beautifully perilous kingdom of Pharloom for what felt like an eternity. The opening hours were now a hazy memory, swallowed by an endless chain of discoveries that refused to let the adventure settle into a comfortable rhythm. Each time a corner of the map seemed to be closing in, the world would crack open like a geode, revealing a glittering labyrinth never...

I didn’t expect to find myself grinning like a fool behind the wheel of a car that looked like it belonged to my grandfather’s golf buddy. It was a drizzly Tuesday morning in 2026, and there it sat in a gravel lot just outside Birmingham – a 2005 MG ZT 260, cloaked in a muted shade of green and wearing the kind of chrome grille that screams “retirement check.” But...