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Hands-on with 'Unravel Two,' a co-op game with double the adorable
Unravel Two is the follow-up to 2016's Unravel, the first indie game published under EA's Originals brand -- and it is just as adorable and emotionally powerful as the original. Unravel Two stars Yarny, the same anthropomorphized ball of red yarn that carried players through the first game, and it adds a second, blue Yarny, instantly upping the cute factor 100 percent. Using the strings hanging from their bottoms (See? They swing from branches and wall-jump up the crevasses between rocks, helping each other along the way. The characters can swing from each other, climb up one another's strings, and even tie those strings together to create a thin trampoline that boosts them up the level.
Agents of Mayhem hands-on: Saints Row meets SHIELD
I'm relieved Volition is making something other than Saints Row V. Which is not to say they'll never make one--or that it's not secretly in development right now. But if it is, it's being developed alongside the all-new Agents of Mayhem, which Volition revealed right before E3. It's set in the Saints Row universe, but trades the town of Steelport for Seoul, South Korea and the Saints themselves for a group of superheroes known as the Multi-national AgencY for Hunting Evil Masterminds or M.A.Y.H.E.M. And yes, they lifted the "Y" from the end of "Agency." But after playing a demo of the game recently, I'm a bit worried--worried that maybe Saints Row isn't quite as enjoyable without the Saints.