{
  "id": 868976,
  "title": "I love the Dark Soulful architecture of The Canon of Balls, a rolling open world game inspired by Sega, Fumito Ueda and Minecraft parkour",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/i-love-the-dark-soulful-architecture-of-the-canon-of-balls-a-rolling",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-14T11:22:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/i-love-the-dark-soulful-architecture-of-the-canon-of-balls-a-rolling-open-world-game-inspired-by-sega-fumito-ueda-and-minecraft-parkour"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "What do Dark Souls , Super Monkey Ball, Shadow of the Colossus , and Minecraft have in common? They are all explicit inspirations for The Canon of Balls, a spooky and unforgiving new open world platformer in which you are a horrified statue's face with a fleshy pink tongue, floating inside a rolling cage. You can use your tongue as a springboard. Look, stay with me on this. I think The Canon of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}