Nick Gillett 

This week’s games news

Crackathon | 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil | Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
  
  

Crackathon
Crackathon. Photograph: PR

Rob Ford, the crack-smoking, drink-driving mayor of Toronto, has inspired a web game that's unlikely to be endorsed by his re-election campaign. In Crackathon, you hop a corpulent cartoon Ford through crack pipes and marijuana leaves positioned on patriotic maple leaf platforms, while avoiding policemen and paparazzi as your public opinion points tick down to zero. Canada really puts the "party" into politics. Also out this week is 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (Xbox 360, PS3), Electronic Arts' latest modest update of its football simulator, gearing up for what its chief financial officer presumably expects will be a bumper year; and Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (PC, PS3, PS4) arrives on PlayStation 4 having solved the technical challenges that almost destroyed its PC and PS3 launches, leaving a complex but conservative subscription-based game.

 

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