{"id":4763,"date":"2022-02-16T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/pushing-buttons-from-the-witcher-to-uncharted-these-are-the-best-and-worst-games-about-love\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T09:36:11","slug":"pushing-buttons-from-the-witcher-to-uncharted-these-are-the-best-and-worst-games-about-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/pushing-buttons-from-the-witcher-to-uncharted-these-are-the-best-and-worst-games-about-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: from the Witcher to Uncharted, these are the best (and worst) games about love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: unlike films or music, not many games are preoccupied with romance \u2013 who gets it right?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! In the spirit of carrying my perennial real-world lateness over into this newsletter, let\u2019s 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\u2019t have, having someone you don\u2019t want, missing someone you <em>once<\/em> had, or sometimes even how much we like person\/people we\u2019re actually with. Not so with video games, though. Games are different. Very few of them are preoccupied with love.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/feb\/15\/pushing-buttons-valentines-day-video-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/12343c4f899116f596fcad400282e8b72c387ac1\/93_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3a091b26a9d2360ad9ec2694fcc8142e\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: from the Witcher to Uncharted, these are the best (and worst) games about love\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: unlike films or music, not many games are preoccupied with romance \u2013 who gets it right?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWelcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<br \/>\nWelcome back to Pushing Buttons! In the spirit of carrying my perennial real-world lateness over into this newsletter, let\u2019s 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\u2019t have, having someone you don\u2019t want, missing someone you once had, or sometimes even how much we like person\/people we\u2019re actually with. Not so with video games, though. Games are different. Very few of them are preoccupied with love. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: unlike films or music, not many games are preoccupied with romance \u2013 who gets it right? Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/pushing-buttons-from-the-witcher-to-uncharted-these-are-the-best-and-worst-games-about-love\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: from the Witcher to Uncharted, these are the best (and worst) games about love<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4764,"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\/4763"}],"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=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}