STILL PLAYING

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch One of the weirder aspects of the Animal Crossing community has always been the trade of popular villagers. Sure enough, players are still cursing Tom Nook’s good name, and in the same breath selling anime cat Raymond into slavery for 100 Nook Miles Tickets. We’re more baffled than ever, especially as New Horizons lends such personality to animals: Iggly the penguin might be ‘ugly’, but we fall in love the moment we see him stare down a massive tarantula until it walks away, whereupon he takes a victory swig of fizzy pop. Legend.

Horizon Zero Dawn PS4 Not so much still playing as finally playing. With the newest member of the team a refugee from the sadly shuttered Official Xbox Magazine, there’s a rare frisson of taboo to his finally being allowed to get hands-on with a PS4, safe in the knowledge that Phil Spencer won’t burn down his house. Guerrilla’s sci-fi adventure is a fine place to start, deft and clinical dispatches of mecha-dinos providing tutelage in the ways of Square, Triangle, Circle and Cross.

Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories PC We’ve long had a soft spot for this series, finally adopting its US title in Europe – though Granzella’s latest entry makes the endearingly wonky Raw Danger! look like a Naughty Dog game. Beneath the creaky design, terrible camera and myriad technical wobbles, however, it retains the series’ haphazard charm. How would we react in an earthquake? By donning a tengu mask and convincing a group of credulous survivors that rainwater has miraculous healing properties, of course.