GameStop is the meme stock company that became famous a few years ago when amateur traders on a Reddit forum piled in furiously in an attempt to burn the short-sellers who were betting on the struggling retailer's demise. Surprisingly, the Redditers succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The squeeze drove up GameStop's share price hundredfold, inflicting hell on serious hedge funds and making the company's chief executive, Ryan Cohen, an anti-establishment hero. Even more surprisingly, GameStop is still around and showing better trading numbers.
Town to City is a meditative, low-risk city builder that allows you to customize a 19th century Mediterranean landscape and grow its population, slowly unlocking new houses, businesses, social hubs, animals, jobs, crops and architectural pieces along the way. Even in the campaign, Town to City is incredibly forgiving and there's really no fail state. You're able to carve out streets and place buildings wherever you'd like, with no grid, and there are also challenges that can unlock more features and larger city sizes.
Amazon Prime members can claim these 11 PC games and six more via the cloud for a total of 17 freebies in May. This month, the selection includes a classic gangland drama that has been overhauled for modern systems, some escape room fun, and one of the best Alien games of all time.
Set in a near-future fictional Japanese city filled with skyscrapers, fast cars, and neon signs lighting up the night sky, you'll fight against anomalies by using your character's Esper powers, neutralizing them before they cause too much havoc.
At the end of the day, fighting is not easy, but it's simple. There is no better way to sum up the dynamics of a fight because stripped down, there are always only a handful of ways things are going to go, but how we arrive at those outcomes is a complicated, layered, nuanced adventure.