The Drop: New Games This Week

The Drop: New Games This Week

What does a ninja, story-telling king, and a cyberpunk swindler have in common? They all star in games coming to PlayStation this week! What a coincidence! Platforming fanatics, take note: N++ is out this week on PS4 and comes packed with literally thousands of hand-crafted levels. Brimming with nail-biting challenges and brutal enemies, N++ presents…

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Atomfall is getting a spooky DLC set on an offshore island that also lets you blast pretend pirates with a blunderbuss

Atomfall wasn’t as good as it could have been when it launched in March, mainly due to its barebones combat and anaemic stealth and survival systems. But I nonetheless enjoyed exploring Rebellion’s eerie take on the Lake District while unravelling the mystery behind the catastrophe at the Windscale Power Plant. I’d be more than happy…

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Roblox introduces real-time AI chat translation, says the next frontier is seamless voice translation including the ‘tone, rhythm, and emotion’ of its users’ lil voices

Roblox has introduced a new AI text translation feature, which translates users’ chat in real-time into other languages. The feature is available to all Roblox experiences (the terminology used by the platform for user-created worlds) via the TextChatService, and Roblox Corp said it means “the chat window will automatically show Korean translated into English, or…

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Smash Bros. Modder Promotes Infamous Nintendo ‘Cease And Desist’ Letter To Playable Character

“See how much court fines you can stack up against your opponents”. Super Smash Bros. Melee modder Mooshie has added a fake ‘Cease and Desist’ letter to the game, poking fun at Nintendo’s famously litigious nature. The parody note turns Kirby into an official-looking communication from the company, but, upon closer inspection, it contains the…

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After nearly three years, Terraria’s 1.4.5 update is totally, definitely, indisputably almost finished: ‘We are in the endgame now’

Terraria has been nearly finished for around half a decade now. Developer Re-Logic began the process of rounding out its 2D survival game way back in 2020, and it’s been almost three years since the most recent update—1.4.4. Now though, it really does seem like the end is nigh. Re-Logic has assured players that it…

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