The phrase ‘Nothing’s certain but death and taxes’ needs an addendum—because the inevitability of Palworld having Pokémon modded into it is, statistically, more likely than both of those things. Medical science could outpace death given a couple hundred years. A post-scarcity society could move beyond the need for taxation—but the moment someone could send Pikachu…
When Games Workshop first released sci-fi miniatures for Warhammer 40,000 in the 1980s the line included space dwarfs, also called squats, with a hairy biker aesthetic—like if the forgemasters of trad fantasy evolved into greasy spaceship mechanics. Never as popular as space elves or space orks, by the second edition of Warhammer 40,000 they were…
Today, a teaser trailer called “False Sense Of Security” was posted by the Alien: Isolation YouTube account. An industrial door unlocks and opens into a gloomy, rainy cityscape, and the scene cuts to one of Isolation’s emergency phone save points. It’s hard to believe it’s been 12 years since the first game scared the bejeezus…
The folks over at Epic Games have revised the release date for the third season of Fortnite and has announced it will now be arriving on Thursday 11th June. That means that Season 2 has been extended for another week. The company had planned to release Season 3 a lot earlier but obviously the coronavirus…
Gaijin Entertainment’s War Thunder is usually in the news for one repeated reason: The people who play this military simulator take it incredibly seriously, and have a habit of leaking classified information onto the game’s forums in an effort to win Internet arguments. But when they’re not targeting each other, the favourite target of the…
Square Enix and Yuji Naka have unleashed the opening movie for the 3D platformer Balan Wonderworld which is due out on Nintendo Switch on 26th March. The game is led by the enigmatic maestro Balan and the stars of the show are the two children Emma and Leo. It has shares plenty of characteristics with…
This popped into my head literally like a lightbulb turning on. I just figured it out. I was sitting there using ChatGPT, working through something… typed a prompt, got a response, tweaked it, tried again, refined it, pushed it a little further… …and it hit me. This is a text adventure. Not “kind of like…
If you’ve lived in California, you drove. The uniqueness of your personal transportation said a lot about who you were, since you spent most of your day relegated behind the wheel, and that car was indeed an extension of you. The average person accumulates about 12,000 miles on their car per year. This was another…
Indie creator Robert Yang—who makes good, funny, incandescently homosexual videogames—has an ongoing project. Radiator Forever is a free megabundle/remaster of Yang’s experimental, short-form games that includes titles like Hurt Me Plenty (description: “consent, negotiation, spanking, and aftercare”), Succulent (“juicy cheek physics and demonic possession”) and Stick Shift (“autoerotic night-driving, manually pleasure a gay car”). I’m…
In late March the news broke that four Korean companies were competing to pitch for the StarCraft license from Blizzard. NCSoft, Nexon, Netmarble, and Krafton are all absolute giants and, attracted by StarCraft’s long and storied history in South Korea, were pitching everything from an MMO to a mobile game as a continuation of the…