Our videogame Christmas cards, rated
We mercilessly judge the papery gifts kindly sent to us by the gaming industry, like big rotten children
Best wishes from... Free Radical
What else can we say, but "Best card ever, EVAR!". Free Radical has gone way above and beyond the call of festive duty here, in an irreverent Christmas card pastiche of "teh Gospel" - entirely in l33t-speak, complete with "ebayjesu5", "KingHer0d_17" and God himself going "OMG!!!!!". It's brilliant.
Visuals | 11 | The gorgeous painting features a winged monkey giving Christ a copy of... TimeSplitters 4!
Festiveness | 11 | It's the Christmas story, wrapped up in humour and using words we understand
Composition | 11 | It pokes fun at the Bible in beautifully styled fashion. Love the spoiler warning
Effort | 11 | Is this why Haze isn't finished yet? We wouldn't be surprised...
Score: 11
Best wishes from... Free Radical
What else can we say, but "Best card ever, EVAR!". Free Radical has gone way above and beyond the call of festive duty here, in an irreverent Christmas card pastiche of "teh Gospel" - entirely in l33t-speak, complete with "ebayjesu5", "KingHer0d_17" andGod himself going "OMG!!!!!". It's brilliant.
Visuals |11 | The gorgeous painting features a winged monkey giving Christ a copy of... TimeSplitters 4!
Festiveness |11 | It's the Christmas story, wrapped up in humour and using words we understand
Composition |11 | It pokes fun at the Bible in beautifully styled fashion. Love the spoiler warning
Effort |11 | Is this why Haze isn't finished yet? We wouldn't be surprised...
Score: 11
Sign up to the 12DOVE Newsletter
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more
Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of 12DOVE. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.
A Deep Rock Galactic player became a real-life explosives miner as "a direct result" of the "silly little dwarf game," and he couldn't be happier with his career
This was supposed to be a chill fishing game with Animal Crossing vibes, but then hardcore players made movement sweaty and turned it into Tony Hawk’s Underground