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An alien visits an industrial estate for a kickabout, a slacker gets knocked up at a sperm bank and a Russian prisoner discovers a wormhole in a shoebox.
Some are more obviously nominees than winners, but this year’s crop of BAFTA shorts offers an eclectic mix of promising talent and fresh ideas.
Highlights include Yousif Al-Khalifa’s watery love story Sleeping With The Fishes , Jane Linfoot’s dirty weekend tragedy Sea View and Jamie Stone’s dazzling use of lo-fi FX in absurdist space mini-epic, Orbit Ever After .
They may be short, but they linger longer than most features.
Metaphor: ReFantazio wanted to fix the JRPG grinding problem, but Atlus went too far at one point and accidentally broke the whole combat system
Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth battle director says combining everything he learned on Monster Hunter: World with Square Enix's technology and unique skills created a "chemical reaction"
"Minutes after Palworld released," Pocketpair was already getting game pitches from "some really big names" before it even set up its own publisher: "No one has money at the moment"
