“We have a great team of storytellers, a bunch of people that worked on Titanfall 2, and when we started building the game and it became Legends focused, we realised that there was potential to tell a lot of stories,” design director, Jason McCord, tells me. “It took a while for us to figure out avenues to be able to tell a good story, or any story at all. And honestly, we’re still trying to figure it out to do it as best we can....
Unbeatable is currently running a Kickstarter campaign, though it was funded after only 15 hours. I was immediately reeled in by its slick anime aesthetic, and if you’re curious to see what it’s like, there’s an Arcade Mix demo out right now which lets you blast through a few tracks - it’s a very good time. Unbeatable’s Arcade Mix demo doesn’t contain any story content, but what it does have are a handful of tracks to jam through....
Documents filed with the government’s Companies House say the big change happened on October 1st, as reported by TheGamer. Companies House make clear that they don’t verify or validate documents filed with them, they only run basic checks, but this would be an elaborate and weirdly niche prank. In September, one tweeter posted a screenshot of Rockstar’s careers page listing Rockstar Dundee too, though it’s not there now. Mysteries. Ruffian Games formed in 2008 with folks from a number of now-defunct Scottish studios, including Realtime Worlds and Rage....
I think I speak for both myself and Liam that our collective highlight of the day was visiting the Pinny Arcade trading meet-up, where pin collectors old and new gather together to display, trade and bolster their beloved pin libraries. No money changes hands. Just pins for pins, pure and simple. We had a lovely time chatting with members of the community, so watch out for that video very soon....
If you’re just a hand without much of a brain attached, I’d advise you to take your date to someplace where you can only make so much trouble with your clumsiness. That’s not your fate in Table Manners though. The trailer shows off a few dangerous locations and related overly-fancy food practices that look as like to turn you all thumbs. There’s a plane and a boat. A sushi conveyor....
There are an unfortunate number of small, annoying things in Sable that add up to a constant grate on your skin. Which is itself annoying, because large swathes of Sable are good. It looks as fabulous in the flesh as it did in those early trailers and animated GIFs, with an art style inspired by European comics and particularly the artist Moebius. The world is traced in delicate, almost wire-frame lines, and there is a continuous day and night cycle....
It’s no clone, though. While its component parts are familiar, Salzaar does enough of its own thing to win my affection, and its odd but sincere personality shines despite some muddy edges. For one thing, while many side jobs are boilerplate deliveries or fights, a fraction are tiny, one-off micro-stories. There’s one about a quarrelling father and son having a blacksmithing contest you must judge philosophically. None of these stories are earth-shaking, and the English translation of its original Simplified Chinese text is generally just fine enough to rule out much artistic impact....
Savage Vessels is a top-down roguelike survival game that’s openly inspired by Teleglitch, 2012’s harrowing pixelly survival horror, but it’s doing enough differently do stand out. In fact, I prefer it. “Aaaiieeee he’s got meee leggo leggo no no” - me, apparently The setup is fine. You’ve got hold of a wee ship and stumbled across a heap of hostile drones nesting amongst a chain of asteroids. Each level is surrounded by a wobbly, instantly lethal void, but you can escape if you reach three navigation points and then fly back to your carrier....
At first I thought Dan DeEntremont was simply showing off some pretty fur effects but oh, OH NO! Speaking of cute violence, here’s a cat attack from narrative adventure game Cats And The Other Lives: I dig the Windows Media Player skin/Kai’s Power Tools vibes of the UI in handgun horde survival shooter Splatter: Polish cyberpunk immersive sim Peripeteia is here channelling the concrete thorn fields and “this place is not a place of honor” mood of long-term nuclear waste storage warnings: Some Attack On Titan-y, superhero-ish, anime-as-heck airborne action in this yet-unnamed game from a solo dev: As unhappy as the concept of a world brought to apocalypse by Bitcoin mining makes even me, the world’s foremost NFT-themed cyberpunk young adult novelist, I do like the catastrophe and infrastucture of Roadless: A lovely glide through an origami world in Splanc: A curious mix of styles in Algernon, a game about escaping a coma with the help of an AI implant: The makers of Askaya: Remnants Of Ajuna document a vital part of the development process: downtime....
Rare announced the Steam release last night and whammed up a Steam page. And yup, they do confirm that “cross play will allow Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam users to adventure together when Sea of Thieves launches on Steam”. They don’t mention when exactly it’ll launch but do say they plan to announce the Steam date “soon.” I started playing Sea Of Thieves in December and yeah, this has become a lovely game to hang out and lark about with my seapals....
Devolver teased on Friday that they planned to both announce and release a new Serious Sam game this month, and here we are. The standalone expansion, which doesn’t require owning Serious Sam 4, is off to Russia. It’ll bring five new levels set in places ranging from forests to abandoned villages, weapons including a new crossbow, a snowmobile to ride, a mech to stomp around in (SS4 having already let us ride the Pope’s mech), side-missions to complete, secrets, and presumably a whole lot of backpedalling and circle-strafing....
Having played all three previous seasons of Telltale’s choose-your-own-zombie-apocalypse tearjerker (plus the 400 Days DLC and the Michonne spin-off), it’s no surprise that I was incredibly invested in Clementine’s story by The Final Season. I’m not a big kid person, typically, but you’d have to be beyond heartless not to love little Clem, wouldn’t you? Even though, by the time TFS rolls around, she’s grown into medium-sized Clem, and is a bit bloody scary to boot....
It’s often disingenuous to say a game is the work of a sole developer. Even Bright Memory benefits from collaboration on audio, music, publishing support with Playism, and a tech base built out of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. But even so, FYQD had created something that could easily pass as a polished piece from a team of dozens. When Bright Memory hit early access last January, our Dominic Tarason was enamoured by its “first-person Devil May Cry” mix-up of running, gunning, and sword-slashing foe-juggling....
Traditionally, Sonic games burst with colour and energy. Pulsating music helps drive you through levels that spin and twist, as you strive to reach the finish line in as short a time as possible. But from roughly 30 minutes with Sonic Frontiers’ tutorial bits and open world introduction, it sets the titular hog on a very different trajectory indeed. And this starts with the music, which – aside from one slice I can’t talk about yet – is more melancholic than cheery; in fact if anything it’s largely non-existent....
Update: Valve have now responded to RPS to say they are still investigating but currently “have not found any reason for players to be alarmed or avoid the current builds” of either game. “We have reviewed the leaked code and believe it to be a reposting of a limited CS:GO engine code depot released to partners in late 2017, and originally leaked in 2018. From this review, we have not found any reason for players to be alarmed or avoid the current builds (as always, playing on the official servers is recommended for greatest security)....
In Spacebase Startopia (a spirtual sequel to 2001’s Startopia) you become the administrator of a big donut-shaped space station. A large part of your job (in fact, the largest part) is building rooms that provide different services, and thus fill the different needs of your alien vistors. There’s a berth for sleeping and eating, and a disco for dancing and possibly dropping space Es - although this is not represented in the game, I just assume nobody could dance like those aliens do without chemical help of some kind....
Right from the off, Inscryption doesn’t mess about on the weirdness front. You wake up in front of a dark, candle-lit table, and all you can see on the other side of it is a pair of ominous white eyes that spiral into a mad shade of orange whenever words growl out of their invisible mouth. You are trapped here, it seems, and you’re about to play a deadly game of cards....
While it might be a little disappointing for long-time Star Citizen fans to not see beefier news out of CitizenCon, the clouds are genuinely gorgeous. At around the 1:15:00 mark in the video below, the developers take players on a ship walkthrough hovering over a planet in the upcoming Pyro system. They emerge into the cockpit to show an absolutely beautiful blanket of fluffy clouds, which produce lovely little droplets of water on your front window....
