STILL PLAYING
Marvel Snap Android After months of matches against strangers whose only means for boiling our blood is a pass-agg Ms Marvel thumbs-up emoji at the wrong moment, it’s strange to find ourselves sitting across a pub table from our opponent. This is courtesy of the new ‘Friendly Battle’ mode, a misnomer if ever we’ve heard one. Its genius lies in switching up the stakes of the betting mechanic from which Snap takes its name: instead of your ranking, the ante here is a growing chunk of each player’s health bar, giving matches the feel of a tense face-off in Street Fighter. As in that game, you’re playing multiple rounds against the same opponent – achance to learn their deck and devise counters that kick out its legs from under it. After one particularly brutal defeat, we almost miss the distance of that old anonymity.