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The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Keza MacDonald

Pushing Buttons: why games don’t have to be hard to be good

Sifu game still
Fight or flight … is Sifu too tough for some players to actually enjoy? Photograph: Sloclap

Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian’s gaming newsletter. If you’d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below – and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.

Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! First off, thank you very much to everyone who’s emailed me to ask a question, recommend a game or express their appreciation for the newsletter since it launched. This is fast becoming my favourite part of my job – and though I very passionately believe that video games ought to be taken seriously, I love that this newsletter provides a moment of enjoyable levity in the week for so many of you. That’s part of why games matter: they make us happy.

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