{"id":7017,"date":"2022-09-13T13:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/pushing-buttons-autumns-gaming-gems\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:39:55","slug":"pushing-buttons-autumns-gaming-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/pushing-buttons-autumns-gaming-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: Autumn\u2019s gaming gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a creeping horror to a funny alien shooter, here are unexpected finds to play before the onslaught of big-name titles<\/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>Games follow a seasonal rhythm, and perhaps because I have spent my entire adult life writing about them for a living (take that, school careers advisor!), I\u2019m especially attuned to it. Absolutely nothing happens in winter, ever. Spring is often when the most interesting games appear \u2013 the slightly offbeat big releases or ambitious indie games that want to make a splash after the Christmas rush. In summer, E3 and Gamescom and all of the other showcases look ahead to the future.<\/p>\n<p>Autumn is truly the season of games, when the Fifas and Call of Dutys and Assassin\u2019s Creeds come out, and everything else either competes with them for attention, or scrambles to get away.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/sep\/13\/pushing-buttons-season-of-the-switch-autumns-gaming-gems\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/808afcf9889e7e9558c3ad4080fa1d8b13595a8f\/66_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bf0c695413a1d6e15a55bb05f5f6cf4e\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: Autumn\u2019s gaming gems\" \/>From a creeping horror to a funny alien shooter, here are unexpected finds to play before the onslaught of big-name titles<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nGames follow a seasonal rhythm, and perhaps because I have spent my entire adult life writing about them for a living (take that, school careers advisor!), I\u2019m especially attuned to it. Absolutely nothing happens in winter, ever. Spring is often when the most interesting games appear \u2013 the slightly offbeat big releases or ambitious indie games that want to make a splash after the Christmas rush. In summer, E3 and Gamescom and all of the other showcases look ahead to the future.<br \/>\nAutumn is truly the season of games, when the Fifas and Call of Dutys and Assassin\u2019s Creeds come out, and everything else either competes with them for attention, or scrambles to get away. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a creeping horror to a funny alien shooter, here are unexpected finds to play before the onslaught of big-name titles Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Games follow a seasonal rhythm, and perhaps because I have spent my entire adult life writing about them for a living (take that, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/pushing-buttons-autumns-gaming-gems\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: Autumn\u2019s gaming gems<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7018,"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\/7017"}],"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=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}