Author: Garry Smith

It barely seems like yesterday, developer Rusty Lake was wowing us with its wonderfully inventive co-operative puzzler The Past Within, but now the studio is back to announced its next adventure, Undergound Blossom, coming later this year. To date, Rusty Lake has released 16 games under the Rusty Lake and Cube Escape banner – some fully fledged premium offerings, others free-to-play companion pieces – blending casual point-and-click puzzling and room-escape-style conundrums into a wonderfully sinister, narratively intertwined saga charting the lives of the Vanderboom family. As with developer Rusty Lake’s last few titles, the newly announced Underground Blossom ditches the…

Obsidian’s pint-sized garden survival adventure Grounded is back with its big 1.2 update, this time adding the likes of wasps, a construction gnat (exactly what it sounds like), and Steam Deck verification, fixing some previously troublesome issues on Valve’s handheld. Starting with Steam Deck verification, 1.2 remedies a range of problems, meaning initial loading and log-in should now function properly, prompts should no longer flicker between gamepad and mouse/keyboard controls, and the virtual keyboard should now correctly appear as needed. Obsidian has also optimised and tuned Grounded’s default graphics settings on Steam Deck for a more “enjoyable experience”. Elsewhere, Grounded’s…

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Friday the 13th: The Game publisher Gun Interactive’s latest stab at the asymmetrical multiplayer horror genre – arrives on 18th August and will be included as part of Xbox Game Pass on release. Announced at the tail-end of 2021, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which is being developed by Sumo Nottingham, sounds pretty par for the course amid the current crop of asymmetrical horror games like Dead by Daylight and Evil Dead: The Game. It pits a brand-new cast of youthful “victims” against a single, powerful foe – in this case, a killer family…

Metacritic has responded to Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores’ recent review bombing. Please note, there will be spoilers for Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores below. Horizon Forbidden West’s DLC Burning Shores released last week, with many praising its visuals and smooth gameplay performance. However, one plot point has led to the game being review bombed on Metacritic, where the DLC currently sits with a 3.2 user rating. Previously, Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores saw its user rating drop to as low as 2.7. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is…

A demo for innovative first-person puzzle game Viewfinder is now available on Steam. The debut game from Scottish developer Sad Owl Studios, Viewfinder is a puzzle game that plays with perspective. Early on, players must discover photos around the world which they then place and step into to progress. Later, they’re equipped with a camera to take pictures of the surroundings, which can then be placed and moved into to solve puzzles. Check out the trailer below to see it in action. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated…

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a 2021 ruling on Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which both parties had appealed. Epic launched its lawsuit against the iPhone maker in August 2020, following the company’s decision to revoke Epic’s Fortnite developer account, blocking the battle royale game from being distributed on its devices. Apple made the move after Epic deliberately circumvented contractually mandated App Store payment mechanisms within its Fortnite iOS app, which would have allowed it to avoid Apple’s 30 percent platform fees. The following year, California’s Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers ruled against Epic in nine of…

It might have had a bit of a tumultuous development journey – to put it mildly – but Dead Island 2 is off to a flying start, having successfully shifted over 1m copies in its first three days of release. Dead Island 2 finally launched last Friday, almost nine years after publisher Deep Silver announced it was in development. Since then, it’s seen no less than three studios at the helm, but, despite that rocky road to release, its final form – which reached the finish line under the stewardship of Dambuster Studios – has clearly captured the public’s imagination.…

Developer Respawn has introduced the latest member to Apex Legends’ playable roster: disgraced Thunderdome Games champion Ballistic, who’ll be joining the free-to-play battle royale hit on 9th May as part of its new season. As is now customary, Ballistic – real name August Montgomery Brinkman – gets his grand unveiling in a new episode of Respawn’s Stories from the Outlands. Here, we meet him taking a lonely stroll through his lavish mansion before settling down for a recap of his Thunderdome career, which ended tragically with the death of his teammate and brother-in-law. Since then, Ballistic has become a recluse,…

LawBreakers died back in 2018 – but its chief creator now wants it to come back. LawBreakers was a hero shooter developed by Boss Key Productions, the now defunct studio set up by Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski after he left Epic having famously worked on the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises. Despite a big pre-release push by publisher Nexon, LawBreakers flopped, with its Steam concurrent player count peaking at 7482 in June 2017 when it launched via open beta. Nexon later blamed LawBreakers’ disastrous fortunes on battle royale PUBG, which at the time was just about the biggest game…

Ubisoft has said it is unlikely to launch native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, as taking “full advantage” of the current console generation would also mean leaving players on PS4 and Xbox One behind. The Division 2 originally launched back in March 2019, with versions for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Streaming versions for Google Stadia and Amazon Luna launched in 2020, and it is playable now on new consoles via backwards compatibility. Last week, The Division 2’s fifth year of content was laid out for fans of Ubisoft’s ongoing post-pandemic co-op…