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Grounded 2 is celebrating its release with a chance to win a 10-foot ant plushie you can use to frighten a child

Forget eight inches of Shadow the Hedgehog; forget 22 inches of Solid Snake (until you're alone at least), and behold t…

Grounded 2 is, of course, the follow-up to Obsidian Entertainment's well-received 2022 co-op garden survival game, which cast players as inadvertently miniaturised children - very much in the style of 80s movie favourite Honey, I shrunk the Kids - then set them loose in a backyard now transformed into a perilous landscape of towering blades of grass and truck-sized spiders. Obsidian's sequel doesn't do much to shake up the fundamental premise - you're small again, but this time in a park - but that new location should hopefully spice things up, and then there are mounts. Xbox's giveaway features a monstrous plushie version of that aforementioned mount, sprawling threateningly across your gaming room floor and equipped with a little saddle you can pop your botty on, spread-eagled and ready for more survival.

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