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The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 10: making fun of that Ready Player One metaverse gamePlus, the games we weren’t allowed to play as little’uns

Plus, the games we weren’t allowed to play as little’uns

Image credit:Warner Bros

Image credit:Warner Bros

Ready Player One protagonist Wade Watts stands in his ramshackle home, playing VR.

You wouldn’t know because shehardlyevermentionsit, but Alice Bee is not a Ready Player One fan. In fairness, the newly revealedOpen(or Opthreen), an RPO-themed metaverse battle royalething, does look, sound, feel, and smell horrible, so a solid chunk of this week’s Electronic Wireless Showpodcastis just us despairing over it. But there’s also some honest-to-goodness games chat, as we field a question from EWS listener Pete (thanks Pete!) on the games our younger selves were parentally forbidden from playing – and how we feel about them as ostensible grownups.

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