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  • The UnderGarden preview: Zen and the art of gaming

    by 
    Mike Schramm
    Mike Schramm
    10.20.2010

    There's good news and bad news. The bad news first: The UnderGarden is not coming to PSN until next year -- while readers were excited to see it on the PS3 when it was first announced, Atari told me during a preview this week that it won't be on that platform until 2011. I asked for a reason, but they said they didn't have one to give. It will, however, be available on XBLA and the PC this November, and the good news is that it plays exactly like we were told it would: the whole experience is very harmless, very zen, dreamy, and blissful. Atari told me that they expected it to serve as a "palate cleanser" between sessions of murderous Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed matches, and the serene little denizens of The UnderGarden seem ready to serve that role very well.