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* Valve boss Gabe Newell turned some heads earlier this week when he expressed his belief that the biggest threat to the success of the company’s Steam Box initiative isn’t from Microsoft and Sony gaming consoles, but rather from Apple. The fact that Temple Run 2 is free-to-play probably helped, but it’s an admirable achievement all the same. That’s less than half the time that it took for Angry Birds Space, the previous record holder, to reach the same sales figure (that one took 35 days). Developer Imangi had reason to celebrate earlier this week when the sequel to the wildly popular endless runner racked up a record-setting 50 million downloads in 13 days, making it the fastest-growing mobile game yet. Just note that if you ever get stuck, you can literally escape by pressing the escape button.* Temple Run 2 has sprinted its way into the record books. Instead of just looking to find your way around, it becomes a question of which areas can now be accessed with cubes, and that's only the beginning. Things become more confusing when it introduces you to a gun that shoots and sucks up cubes. The solution often involves thinking outside-of-the-box, and the game hammers this message home in the panels you collect. The overwhelming theme is: how we perceive a problem is what matters.

Sometimes I'll be looking at a sign telling me not to do something, only to be punished for doing just that. There are times when I feel I'm running in circles, and times when I'm running in circles only to turn round and find the solution following me. Even years after I first played and completed this baffling puzzle game from Alexander Bruce, I recently came back to discover that, in forgetting the answers, it feels as fresh to me as it does to these newcomers. "Every level is super mind-blowing" said another. "Made my brain hurt", commented one a few days ago. Years after Antichamber befuddled and flummoxed those who played it, there are trickles of new players discovering this gem for the first time. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.