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We get Venice postcard, smell Assassin-shaped rat

Now. We received a postcard from Italy this morning, showing a Venice scene. The postmark, however, isn't Venetian. There's nothing written on it at all.

There's a few reasons why there's almost certainly something fishy going on here:

  1. The image shows Venice. Seen Venice in the news recently?
  2. There's a plaque on the right sporting the words "Da Vinci". Seen Da Vinci in the news recently?
  3. We don't know anyone in Venice, from Venice, or related to Venice in any way.
  4. It's highly unlikely anyone we do know in Italy would send us a postcard of Venice.
  5. We run a videogames website. This is probably about a videogame.

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.

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