Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 seems to be a thing

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Outed by the Korean ratings board.

The original Pac-Man Championship Edition revitalised the dot-munching yellow pizza offcut...thingy with beautiful art, a pumping soundtrack, and some clever twists on the traditional Pac-Mechanics. I'm very glad there's (probably) going to be another one, then, in the form of Pac-Man Championship Edition...2.

Bandai Namco recently released Pac-Man 256 on PC—an endless, Crossy Road-ish take on Pac-Man made by Crossy Road developer Hipster Whale. Here's the launch trailer:

(Thanks, Eurogamer.)

Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.