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- This week’s PlayStation-exclusive shooter starring a snail is coming to PC
- Here’s what BioShock looks like in Unreal Engine 5
- Golden Axe has been remade in Doom, and you can try it now
- Summer of ’58 dev quits due to a “huge number of returns” of the 90-minute Steam game
- Fortnite’s alien season adds the one Will Smith character who hasn’t fought aliens
- Norman Reedus outs Death Stranding 2 as “in negotiations”
| This week’s PlayStation-exclusive shooter starring a snail is coming to PC Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:25 AM PDT  This Tuesday sees the release of a pretty unusual game, even by our standards - Clid The Snail, a gritty top-down shooter starring a grumpy snail fighting against killer slugs. If that description has you intrigued, the bad news is that it's a PS4/PS5 exclusive - or at least, it was, as it's getting a Steam release later this year. Clid The Snail is described as an "innovative top-down shooter" with a focus on story and a careful Dark Souls-esque approach to combat, along with puzzles to solve and mechanics to overcome. The cast of characters on Clid's team includes "a shy hedgehog, a shaman turtle, a mute bat, and a ninja frog", a list that makes us want to play it even more. We'll get our chance, although sadly not for a while. While Clid The Snail (we even love typing that) is out for PlayStation consoles on August 31, it's not coming to PC until "late 2021" - although the game's Steam page is up already. It costs £15.99/$19.99/€19.99 on PS4/PS5, so expect the price to be similar when the game comes out on PC.  |
| Here’s what BioShock looks like in Unreal Engine 5 Posted: 29 Aug 2021 12:27 PM PDT  A talented developer has remade the original BioShock in Unreal Engine 5 and released a three-minute-long trailer to showcase their efforts - complete with combat, a whale, dialogue, an underwater Big Daddy fight, and several cats for some reason. Creator noodlespagoodle previously did a video of what BioShock would look like in Unreal Engine 4 back in 2014, and while other developers did more direct recreations of areas in the game they opted for an original area that recreated the feel of BioShock instead. Now noodlespagoodle has done something similar in Unreal Engine 5 (thanks DSOGaming). The short demo uses the original textures from BioShock to keep faithful to the game, but the developer has created an original scenario in a new part of Rapture. It looks, feels, and plays like a better-looking remake of BioShock, complete with a lot of identifiable features such as the Gatherer's Garden vending machine, weapons, audio logs, UI, a crazed Splicer, a Little Sister, and even a Big Daddy in an underwater fight - but there are some obvious differences too. RELATED LINKS: Bioshock system requirements |
| Golden Axe has been remade in Doom, and you can try it now Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:39 AM PDT  A talented Doom modder has created a first-person version of SEGA's classic MegaDrive/Genesis hack-and-slash game Golden Axe, and it's available to play now. The Golden Axe Doom mod is only at the pre-alpha stage, but it captures the feel of the original game perfectly. The game is being created by self-proclaimed Doom modder and retro FPS enthusiast @BBblazkowicz on Twitter, who is creating Golden Axe Doom using the latest version of GZDoom. A pre-alpha build of the mod is available now, which allows players to try out the first level of the game, 'Village Outskirts'. Since Golden Axe doesn't have any guns or long-range magic like in Amid Evil, combat is entirely melee-focused - and the mod adds a number of controls to make it fun to play, including the likes of jump-attacks, alternate-fire kicks, and even spinning attacks. Other than that it's a pretty authentic Golden Axe experience for fans of the original game, except in first-person - which actually makes the game a lot tougher. RELATED LINKS: Doom PC release date, Play Doom |
| Summer of ’58 dev quits due to a “huge number of returns” of the 90-minute Steam game Posted: 29 Aug 2021 07:00 AM PDT  The developer behind the recent short horror game Summer of '58 is quitting game development, which it puts down to the "huge number" of refunds given by Steam. As the PC-exclusive horror game is less than two hours long, any user on Steam could get a refund even if they completed it. Summer of '58 is the latest first-person horror title from indie developer Emika Games, which was released in July and features a video blogger investigating an abandoned and supposedly haunted Russian children's camp - which of course goes very badly indeed. At £6.19/$6.92 on Steam it's a cheap purchase even full-price, and it's currently 23% off. The game's Steam page makes it very clear that Summer of '58 only has an average play-time of around 90 minutes. However, according to Emika Games, Summer of '58 has received "a huge number of returns" - despite being rated 'very positive'. The developer blames this on the fact that its game "does not reach two hours of playing time" - under Steam's return policy, any game under two hours can be refunded.  |
| Fortnite’s alien season adds the one Will Smith character who hasn’t fought aliens Posted: 29 Aug 2021 04:20 AM PDT  Will Smith has just been added to Fortnite, although Epic's choice of characters may surprise fans. The new update adds Mike Lowrey - Will Smith's character from Bad Boys - as a playable skin for the alien-themed Chapter 2 Season 7, despite him being one of the few Will Smith characters who hasn't battled aliens. Captain Stephen Hiller in Independence Day. Agent J in Men In Black. Floyd 'Deadshot' Lawton in Suicide Squad. Cypher Raige in After Earth. All of these Will Smith characters had intense fights with alien invaders, to say nothing of the likes of I, Robot's Del Spooner, I Am Legend's Robert Neville, or Bright's Daryl Ward. So the news that Fortnite is adding Will Smith's character from buddy cop movie Bad Boys - and without his partner, Martin Lawrence's Marcus Burnett, no less - is an interesting choice. Fortnite has been known to add characters unrelated to the season's theme before now but given the range of thematically appropriate Will Smith characters, it's intriguing that it's the entirely earthbound hero that gets added - to say nothing of Deadshot, since Fortnite also has a Suicide Squad and DC Comics collaboration going on too. RELATED LINKS: Fortnite V-Bucks, Fortnite Skins, Fortnite Creative Codes |
| Norman Reedus outs Death Stranding 2 as “in negotiations” Posted: 29 Aug 2021 03:19 AM PDT  With the Death Stranding director's cut not due out until the end of September - and that's only on PlayStation consoles so far, a PC release is yet to be determined - star Norman Reedus seems to have already outed the existence of a possible Death Stranding 2. Director Hideo Kojima himself has been teasing a possible sequel to Death Stranding since at least June last year, a month before the original game even arrived on PC - although there he only referred to it as a "new title". Apparently, Kojima also approached renowned manga artist Junji Ito to help with "a horror-based game", which may be closer to Kojima's cancelled Silent Hills than Death Stranding 2. Death Stranding star Norman Reedus - who was also down for Silent Hills - doesn't seem to go in for subtle teases like Kojima. Instead, in an interview with AdoroCinema (via partner site IGN Brazil) about The Walking Dead's final season, he outright says "I think we're doing a second Death Stranding." He continued by saying, "[Death Stranding 2] is in negotiations right now. So… yay!" RELATED LINKS: Death Stranding PC release date, How long is Death Stranding, Death Stranding Steam |
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