{"id":389,"date":"2021-02-03T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T12:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/03\/comfort-and-control-video-game-recommendations-for-the-ongoing-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T12:55:30","slug":"comfort-and-control-video-game-recommendations-for-the-ongoing-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/03\/comfort-and-control-video-game-recommendations-for-the-ongoing-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort and control: video game recommendations for the ongoing lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From lonely birds to legal eagles, our critics share their favourite digital diversions to combat the boredom and uncertainty of the Covid era<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure why I keep going back to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2020\/may\/09\/cloudpunk-review-delivers-the-goods-crazy-taxi\">Cloudpunk<\/a> <\/strong>(PS4, Xbox, PC, Switch). The sprawling, dystopian city of Nivalis is every bit the future imagined by the cyberpunk fiction of the 1980s, a technocracy full of staggering inequality and endless skyscrapers rising into the clouds, embroidered with neon. I finished the game, in which you play a driver delivering packages in a flying car, months ago. And yet I keep returning to race aimlessly across its gleaming airborne highways and luxe high-rises, soothed by the hum of my engine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/feb\/03\/comfort-and-control-video-game-recommendations-for-the-ongoing-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a08e8eb9cd39ad9ce8da5b81c7aaaf0c749460fd\/118_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7d7fcf6ad0dd2c0e68cf6b7b2a9d3a06\" title=\"Comfort and control: video game recommendations for the ongoing lockdown\" \/>From lonely birds to legal eagles, our critics share their favourite digital diversions to combat the boredom and uncertainty of the Covid era<br \/>\nI\u2019m not sure why I keep going back to Cloudpunk (PS4, Xbox, PC, Switch). The sprawling, dystopian city of Nivalis is every bit the future imagined by the cyberpunk fiction of the 1980s, a technocracy full of staggering inequality and endless skyscrapers rising into the clouds, embroidered with neon. I finished the game, in which you play a driver delivering packages in a flying car, months ago. And yet I keep returning to race aimlessly across its gleaming airborne highways and luxe high-rises, soothed by the hum of my engine. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From lonely birds to legal eagles, our critics share their favourite digital diversions to combat the boredom and uncertainty of the Covid era I\u2019m not sure why I keep going back to Cloudpunk (PS4, Xbox, PC, Switch). The sprawling, dystopian city of Nivalis is every bit the future imagined by the cyberpunk fiction of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/03\/comfort-and-control-video-game-recommendations-for-the-ongoing-lockdown\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comfort and control: video game recommendations for the ongoing lockdown<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}