LEGIONNAIRES – A Brutal 8-Bit NES Game
LEGIONNAIRES – A Brutal 8-Bit NES Game is being developed by German father-and-son team German Garage Games. The Kickstarter reached its €5,000 funding goal in just two hours, and the campaign is now moving towards its next stretch goal. Inspired by Contra, Metal Gear and Predator, Legionnaires combines run-and-gun action with environmental puzzles and two…
A ‘fundamental’ update for this 34-year-old survival game is coming in October
Survival game UnReal World is getting an update this October: Here’s why that’s rad: The game launched in 1992 and it’s still getting patches The 34-year-old game is considered the first open world survival game—it even has a Guinness World Record for it Its creator, Sami Maaranen, has no plans to stop updating it: “When…
CD Projekt lays out why you should play The Witcher 3 Remastered
The Witcher 3 Remastered is coming out on September 29, which is tomorrow. That doesn’t leave you a lot of time to make up your mind about whether you want to jump back in. So I, with a certain amount of assistance from CD Projekt Red, am here to help. To begin, we must answer…
Steam’s tidying game trend is about to get the haunted meat it’s been missing
What happened: I Am Your Beast and Clickolding developer Strange Scaffold has announced Something is Wrong with the Library, a tidying game set in “a library haunted by blood and meat.” Players will both reshelve the library’s scattered books with a real Dewey Decimal System implementation while facing the accursed energies emanating from the corpses…
I have broken GTA 5 by installing so many mods that the game only launches in windowed mode now
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. Can a game go…
The writer of The Witcher 3’s best quest has returned to CD Projekt after a decade away
XThat the quest ‘Family Matters’ stands out as the best quest in The Witcher 3—a game filled with great storytelling and characters—is a true testament to the skill of its creators. That’s why it’s so exciting that one of the main forces behind it, writer Karolina Stachyra, has returned to CD Projekt after a decade…
Embark should’ve implemented a PvE mode into Arc Raiders a long time ago
I am very excited at the prospect of an Arc Raiders PvE-only mode. I have been ever since I got a tiny taste of what it could be like in Shared Watch, and even before that while playing in friendly lobbies. I know some aren’t happy at the prospect of a mode with no PvP,…
Feature: Okay, Let’s Talk About The New Resident Evil Movie
5/5 STARRRRRS. This write-up contains FULL SPOILERS for the new Resident Evil movie, including its ending. If you don’t want to find out what happens, come back later after you’ve seen it for yourself. I’m a little late to the party with this, but I finally saw Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil over the weekend. Read…
Forest of Deceit: Why Localisation Matters When Everyone is Lying
Summary How social deduction games function through clarity. We improved clarity by adding new languages. Customize your localization at a granular level. The last thing you want in a game about lying is to look suspicious just because you didn’t understand what exactly was happening. Forest of Deceit, the social deduction party game created by…
A love letter to the Guitar Hero X-Plorer Controller
I’ve given it my all, on that same 20-year-old X-Plorer, with one of my favourite songs from that time. Scroll down for my cool video. I peaked at 16 years old. I was part way through an expert run of ‘Through the Fire and the Flames’ by Dragonforce on Guitar Hero 3 at a friend’s…