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Rock Paper Shotgun Nov 8, 2026, 1:52 AM (32 minutes ago)

Years ago, I had this dream where I was parkouring through a greatly sunken version of Venice, no doubt sourced from the many hours I put into Assassin’s Creed 2 as a teen who should have been studying for their GCSEs a lot more than they were.

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