Author: Garry Smith
Life is full of little rituals, and little rituals are also a huge part of the appeal of games. Build orders, sending loot off on your pet, typing out a cheery GG. But the best rituals go beyond any individual games. They exist, as platform holders might say, at the hardware level. Here’s a favourite. I find a spot in the park. I check for the position of the sun. I arrange bag and book and Tesco Meal Deal, lie back and then fiddle with the screen of the tiny device I’m holding just so, until it catches the light…
Guacamelee developer Drinkbox Studios has announced Frozen Hearth, a new chunk of paid DLC heading to its action-RPG Nobody Saves the World on 13th September. Frozen Hearth takes players to a forgotten new region, deep underground, “where the strongest warriors compete for glory in The Tempering”. Here, hardy adventurers can tackle a series of puzzles and challenges intended to test their transformation skills and creativity, unlocking the new Killer Bee and Mechanic forms that can be used in the DLC and main game. “When we shipped the original game, there were so many ideas we had to leave on the…
Digital Extremes has shared more on Warframe’s Veilbreaker update, confirming it’ll be launching for all platforms some time in September, and that players will be able to get instant free access to Styanax – the sci-fi shooter’s 50th Warframe – for two weeks after its arrival. Styanax – who gets a proper introduction in the animated Ascension Day trailer below – is described as a “mighty and herculean” Warframe whose designed is inspired by the ancient Greek warrior Astyanax. His abilities include the Axios Javelin – which can push back enemies on impact, causing damage if they hit a wall…
Homeworld is back: that’s Homeworld 3 in a nutshell. It’s the real-time strategy series you remember and, probably, what you want it to be now. And actually, to hear Rob Cunningham tell it in our interview below – he who helped dream up Homeworld and co-founded Relic, and now leads Blackbird, the studio making Homeworld 3 – this game is actually what they always wanted Homeworld 2 to be. Computers just couldn’t handle it at the time. But now they can. They can handle this big idea of using space wreckage as cover to hide behind, fly through, sneak around…
To celebrate the upcoming launch of the Steam Deck in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Valve has released a new booklet all about the company, Steam, and its handheld Steam Deck PC. This booklet is just over 50 pages long, and is available in Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and English. It will cover some background information on the company, as well as an overview of Steam including “how it came to be and where it is now”, and the “story of Steam Deck”. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This…
Denuvo has clarified more details of its upcoming Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection solution, which it announced earlier this week.In its announcement, the company invited publishers to include Denuvo’s anti-tamper software in Switch games to help crack down on piracy and PC emulation. But many fans were not happy with Denuvo’s involvement, worried about the effect the software may have on performance.A Denuvo spokeperson has since responded to questions surrounding the software, as well as the driving parties behind it. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes…
We’ve finally seen Big the Cat in Sonic Frontiers. The big purple creature first appeared in Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast and has since become a fan favourite character, appearing in a number of games in the series. It’s been known for a while that Big the Cat would feature, but thanks to Twitter user Bibs he’s been spotted with Sonic in-game at Gamescom. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
Following Sony’s announcement that it will be raising the price of PlayStation 5 in select countries, Microsoft has responded to the news, merely noting that existing Xbox Series X/S prices remain the same. Sony announced it would be increasing the cost of PlayStation 5 – in response to “high global inflation rates, as well as adverse currency trends” – earlier today, with the price hike impacting most markets around the world, effective immediately. That increase affects both the disc and disc-less models of PS5, and equates to £30 in the UK and €50 in Europe – with similar bumps occurring…
Following Netflix’s announcement earlier this year that it’s adapting Irrational Games’ acclaimed shooter BioShock into a live-action film, the streaming service has revealed it’s now secured a writer and director for the project. When word of the BioShock adaptation first broke in February, there was little to go on beyond the fact it was being developed alongside publisher Take-Two and Vertigo Entertainment with an eye on turning it into a cinematic universe. Now, though, Netflix has revealed that two key roles on the project have now been filled, with Francis Lawrence having signed on in the director role. Read more…
It’s only been a couple of weeks since Capcom dropped the first free title update for Monster Hunter Rise’s Sunbreak expansion, but already the publisher is teasing Update 2, with a first look at incoming new monster variant Flaming Espinas. Espinas returned to the Monster Hunter series back in August with the launch of Rise’s Sunbreak expansion, marking the first time the creature had made the roster in a new game since its debut in 2008’s Monster Hunter Frontier 2.0. In its base form, Espinas is a Flying Wyvern capable of paralysis, poison, and fireblight, and while Capcom is yet…