{"id":5053,"date":"2022-03-15T16:36:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/from-zelda-to-elden-ring-how-to-make-time-for-gaming-when-you-have-a-busy-life\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:36:35","slug":"from-zelda-to-elden-ring-how-to-make-time-for-gaming-when-you-have-a-busy-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/from-zelda-to-elden-ring-how-to-make-time-for-gaming-when-you-have-a-busy-life\/","title":{"rendered":"From Zelda to Elden Ring \u2013 how to make time for gaming when you have a busy life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: games are nourishment for the soul \u2013 make time to play, even if its only ten minutes<\/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>I have a long, emotionally-significant history with Elden Ring\u2019s developer \u2013 I was the first person in the world to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2011\/09\/30\/dark-souls-review\">review Dark Souls<\/a>, for heaven\u2019s sake \u2013 but I still haven\u2019t found time to play FromSoftware\u2019s latest title. I once flew to California to play Dark Souls for 24 straight hours on a live stream. These games are IMPORTANT to me! And yet it feels impossible to carve out enough time to do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/feb\/23\/elden-ring-review-an-unrivalled-masterpiece-of-design-and-inventiveness\">Elden Ring<\/a> justice. I know I\u2019m not alone in this; most weeks I get emails from people who read this newsletter asking how anyone has time to play massive games and also have a job and a life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/mar\/15\/pushing-buttons-long-games-time-elden-ring-zelda\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/98389c653d43f755eb9845c30b8d5606cca1fd11\/0_34_1742_1045\/master\/1742.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=86d5f2ef696254e893de4e78d07b0be1\" title=\"From Zelda to Elden Ring \u2013 how to make time for gaming when you have a busy life\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: games are nourishment for the soul \u2013 make time to play, even if its only ten minutes<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 \/>\nI have a long, emotionally-significant history with Elden Ring\u2019s developer \u2013 I was the first person in the world to review Dark Souls, for heaven\u2019s sake \u2013 but I still haven\u2019t found time to play FromSoftware\u2019s latest title. I once flew to California to play Dark Souls for 24 straight hours on a live stream. These games are IMPORTANT to me! And yet it feels impossible to carve out enough time to do Elden Ring justice. I know I\u2019m not alone in this; most weeks I get emails from people who read this newsletter asking how anyone has time to play massive games and also have a job and a life. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: games are nourishment for the soul \u2013 make time to play, even if its only ten minutes 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/from-zelda-to-elden-ring-how-to-make-time-for-gaming-when-you-have-a-busy-life\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Zelda to Elden Ring \u2013 how to make time for gaming when you have a busy life<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5054,"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\/5053"}],"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=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}