JhbTeam shared a video in the CODWarzone subreddit of himself using the game’s proximity chat to lead a group of players through the various steps of the Slide. Although one manages to fire off a few shots before they begin, everyone seems to be getting into the spirit of dance and generally behaving themselves. I particularly enjoy when that one lad rushes in from out of nowhere, right on cue for the slide to the right part....
I’m in two minds about the ending. Spoilers, obvs.
Don’t expect Baldur’s-Gate-style roleplaying, however, ‘cos this ain’t an RPG. It’s a satire of one - primarily the tabletop kind, though it takes aim at CRPGs too - and while the tactical bits are played straight, nothing else is. There’s my biggest caveat about this game, then. Its humour is relentless. And while it ended up hitting the mark frequently enough for me to warm to it, it was a close call....
I always find it odd when vampires turn into swarms of bats. What’s it like to be a bat with a small portion of distributed vampire consciousness? And how come some of them fly away when he turns back? Is he leaking? Anyway. Harrowstorm includes trips to two dungeons that set up the main story that kicks off in May. There’s Icereach, a spooky island “hidden within the Sea of Ghosts”, and Unhallowed Grave, where you confront some grave robbers in an ancient tomb....
This week we also get an important fish update from Nate, who has a tank full of monsters that it turns out are slightly less inbred than we thought, and also I made an unwise purchase (not fish-related). Matthew delivers a Cavern Of Lies that we have to navigate on pure instinct alone, like Luke turning off his targeting computer, and we have three good suggestions in our Recommendations section....
Now the game is reaching the end of its journey. ACE Team have announced you’ll be able to flee the planetary rolling pin on September 30th. Check out the release date announcement trailer, which explains where the game’s design ended up: You’ll flee across the planetary surface pursued by an endless cylinder, just as expected. What changed is that the cylinder will come to rest at certain points after you’ve entered a new biome....
(Click here for Part I) The Ventnor currently unfurling beneath us is a very different resort to the one described in Roman’s antique guidebook. Deprived of its remaining* railway station in 1966, its imposing sanatorium in 1964, and the last remnants of its pier in 1993, it has - reluctantly perhaps - regained some of the sleepy insignificance it possessed in the days before the Victorian tourists and TB sufferers arrived in their thousands....
Ventura was at BitSummit to showcase the successor to this game, Backbeat. It’s a bit of a departure from much of his past work, acting more like a puzzle game with a musical soul, albeit one where the act of creating and playing music together is imbued into every solution. As the crowd began to leave the bustling convention hall for the day, I went to the booth for one last demo, and the chance to speak to the person behind it all… who was sat at his demo kiosk playing the keytar....
Now, time to enjoy your nice joke! Q: What medical procedure is taught to all Vikings upon entry to Valhalla? A: The Valheimlich manoeuvre.
Here’s the update video: The Last Starship let in a small tranche of players to do some testing via Steam last month, and the result is a lot of people building and sharing their ship designs. Much of the video above is spent showing off those user-created ships, which are far larger than anything the developers had built themselves. Large enough that the unoptimised game chugs a bit while rendering them....
Now the sequel, unhelpfully named The Lords Of The Fallen, is getting closer to release. And we thought it high time to summarise everything that we’ve learned about the game so far, and every way in which it strays from the original formula. Below we’ll go over The Lords Of The Fallen’s expected release date and platforms, as well as trailers, story, gameplay, and multiplayer details. The Lords Of The Fallen expected release date The Lords Of The Fallen is expected to release sometime in 2023, but otherwise no solid release date has yet been given by Hexworks, the CI Games studio developing the game....
UGH, physics. Here are 10 games where physics is not boring, but good. Grand Theft Auto V From cruel pushes to comical stumbling, Rockstar’s crime ‘em up is a ragdoll paradise, casting you as both nasty minion of tyrannical physics and its frequent victim. The physical laws of Los Santos will tolerate silly stunts, but they will not tolerate a head smashed against a sidewalk at speed. The mercurial physics engine also makes cars control suspiciously well, whether they are novelty bangers or superfast richmobiles....
According to Overclockers UK’s website, there are at least ten Rift S headsets in stock at time of writing - although there’s currently no telling whether that means 11 headsets or 111. Either way, the good news is that the Rift S can be ordered for its regular price of £399, and there’s free shipping, too, making it a good time to snap one up if you’ve been itching to get one....
Clued-in as they are in small-town USA happenings, the Oregon Country Fair In The Clouds was brought to my attention by the folks at RPS fansite PC Gamer. They also must’ve checked in during peak hours - because while their reporting notes chaotic open-mic crowds, workshops and video-streamed performances, I was greeted by a surreal, lonely artscape. That’s timezones for you, eh? Built with Mozilla’s Hubs Cloud tool for creating “immersive spaces”, the Fair In The Clouds is a fascinatingly janky rendition of the Oregon Country Fair....
To reiterate, The Quarry will still feature local ‘couch co-op’ multiplayer and an interaction-free movie mode alongside its single-player campaign when it launches on June 10th, Supermassive said. It’s just the online part that will be missing. The developers added that choosing to delay the mode was a “difficult decision”, but said it would be arriving as an update “by July 8th”, which suggests we might end up seeing it sooner than that if we’re lucky....
But none more so than what the zombies wear. They favour comfortable clothing, but mainly the gilet. They love gilets. And they now have me questioning my fashion choices. Should I also join them as a wearer of gilets?
Perhaps the full package will pale in comparison to Valve’s polish, but the bit in this trailer where the player scurries down a train while contorting around manhacks looks oh-so appetisingly transportative. I think it’s time I dug out my lighthouses. The mod takes place immediately after the main game, with Alyx returning to City-17 after a chinwag with the G-man. “A mysterious levitating building” has appeared above “the Sector X region”, explains the mod’s Steam workshop page, with Alyx off to find two missing resistance members who went to investigate....
Brave New World is a pretty dang ambitious mod. The creators have recorded 138 voice actors to provide around 7,000 lines for 145 of Vegas’ characters. It’s a serious undertaking that its creators say has been almost four years in progress. “Our team has gone to great lengths to make sure that the project meets the standards of quality expected for voice acting/voice overs within the gaming industry,” the creators say on the Brave New World mod page....
Get the MSI Ventus 2X RTX 3060 12GB for £370 (was £390) The RTX 3060 is the most affordable RTX 30-series graphics card, making it a popular choice amongst folks with 1080p or 1440p monitors. You get excellent RT performance compared to AMD’s higher-tier alternatives, while DLSS allows you to boost frame-rates without sacrificing image quality - something that AMD are now beginning to mirror with FSR 2.0. The RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 tend to offer better frame-rates per pound, but the RTX 3060 gets special compensation for being by far the cheapest Nvidia option from this generation....
With an almost comically gravelly voice-over, Curse Of The Moon 2’s new trailer ditches Koji Igarashi’s live-action introduction to give you more of what you wanted - crunchy, low-resolution demon-slayers whipping, kicking and slashing down gothic beasties. Fair play, it’s mostly the same trailer as last time, with an extra minute of footage tacked onto the end. But that extension does at least confirm that the first game’s characters Miriam, Alfred, and Gebel will be returning alongside Zangetsu, Dominique, Robert and Hachi....
