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• The amazing Resident Evil 4 HD remaster mod is out now
• Gibbon: Beyond The Trees is a gorgeous 2D tree-swinging adventure
• Battlefield 2042's season one delayed in favour of finishing the game
• World Of Warcraft will let Horde and Alliance players team up for raids and dungeons
• Bloodborne PSX is on PC even if its inspiration isn't
• Steam will run two sales a month through till the summer
• I'm a Life Is Strange die-hard and I have hella mixed feelings about the Remastered Collection
• Can the games industry please stop with the acquisitions for one second, please, cheers
• Kingston Fury Renegade review: the fastest SSD we’ve tested
• The Waylanders review: a classic RPG that's as endearing as it is janky
• Microsoft Flight Simulator has prettied-up Australia in a free update
• Startup Panic is a fun management game about a social media company, but will it be as bold as I'd like?
• Wordle bought by the New York Times for a seven-figure sum

The amazing Resident Evil 4 HD remaster mod is out now Posted: 02 Feb 2022 02:49 AM PST Capcom released an 'HD' remaster of Resident Evil 4 in 2014, but their official makeover is nothing compared to the work by a small team of modders across almost eight years. Their mod, the Resident Evil 4 HD Project, is out now, and I think it's the most impressive remaster mod ever made. In replacing the game's textures and models with high-def versions, they've tried hard to replicate both the form and the style, and even tracked down locations and objects Capcom had photographed to work into textures. Dead impressive. Read more

Gibbon: Beyond The Trees is a gorgeous 2D tree-swinging adventure Posted: 01 Feb 2022 03:38 PM PST Gibbon: Beyond The Trees is a 2D adventure in which you swing between treetops and slide down branches like Disney's Tarzan or an arboreal skateboarder. It's Gibbon's Pro Skater. GibbonGibbon World. It's from the creators of Old Man's Journey and looks similarly gorgeous, and it's due out in early 2022. Watch the announce trailer below. Read more

Battlefield 2042's season one delayed in favour of finishing the game Posted: 01 Feb 2022 03:00 PM PST Battlefield 2042's first season of post-release content is being delayed so that its developers can focus on implementing "extensive fixes to the game." Voice comms, a revised scoreboard and better player profiles are all on the way before season one arrives early summer, among other changes designed to improve the dev team's communication with players. Read more

World Of Warcraft will let Horde and Alliance players team up for raids and dungeons Posted: 01 Feb 2022 02:18 PM PST World Of Warcraft is downplaying the "War" bit and planning to let Alliance and Horde players play together. It'll be an opt-in feature for those who want it, but it'll let you form cross-faction parties for running dungeons, raids and rated PvP when it launches. Read more

Bloodborne PSX is on PC even if its inspiration isn't Posted: 01 Feb 2022 01:49 PM PST Sony continue to port their first-party games to PC, with 2018's God Of War launching earlier this month. Every time they announce the next port in development, the howls of Bloodborne fans can be heard across the internet. When will From Software's gothic slasher make the move to our superior home computers? I've no answer for you, but fan-made demake Bloodborne PSX should tide you over for a little while. It's Bloodborne as if made for 32-bit consoles, four hours long, and features the original game's first two bosses. It's out now. Read more

Steam will run two sales a month through till the summer Posted: 01 Feb 2022 01:12 PM PST Valve have announced the dates for a number of upcoming Steam sales and events. That includes the demo-laden Next Fest on February 21st-28th, the Steam Summer Sale on June 23rd-July 7th, and several themed sales around specific genres such as JRPG, racing, and survival. Read more

I'm a Life Is Strange die-hard and I have hella mixed feelings about the Remastered Collection Posted: 01 Feb 2022 10:39 AM PST There's no two ways about it: I'm a big old card-carrying Life Is Strange nerd. Seriously, I own some geeky merch to demonstrate my love for this series; up to and including, yes, the official Life Is Strange deck of playing cards. In other words, I am exactly the sort of fan the Life Is Strange: Remastered Collection is geared towards; so you may be surprised when I say that I'm not planning on picking it up anytime soon. I'll be honest, I've been wary of the remasters of the first Life Is Strange title and its prequel Before The Storm ever since the first stills were released. "Look how much emotion their faces show now!" was the boast, splashed across side-by-side images of Rachel frowning in the original vs Rachel smiling in the remaster, Chloe frowning in the original vs Chloe smiling in the remaster, Max smiling slightly in the original vs Max grinning widely in the remaster... perhaps you begin to see my issue. Read more

Can the games industry please stop with the acquisitions for one second, please, cheers Posted: 01 Feb 2022 10:08 AM PST Hi, nice to meet you. Can I get you anything? A drink, a bite to eat, an acquisition maybe? There are apparently a lot of them to go around, after all. Hear that? It's Sony buying Bungie. It's Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard. It's Tencent accidentally dropping £365 billion down a grate as they stroll down the street and unknowingly buy the Earth's crust. They were on the phone to me at the time, putting an offer on my flat. I am tired of these big companies buying everything. Can we just slow down for a hot second and chill out a bit, please? Read more

Kingston Fury Renegade review: the fastest SSD we’ve tested Posted: 01 Feb 2022 07:36 AM PST Oh, this is classic Kingston. I don’t think any other SSD manufacturer so consistently goes quiet for months on end, then suddenly rocks up at your house, slams a world-beating NVMe drive on your desk and wordlessly disappears again. It happened with the A2000, it happened with the KC2500 and now it’s happened with the Fury Renegade. Read more

The Waylanders review: a classic RPG that's as endearing as it is janky Posted: 01 Feb 2022 07:00 AM PST I keep trying to figure out how to describe The Waylanders’ unique blend of endearment and jank. Unfortunately I am cursed with chronic writer’s brain so all I can come up with is this: it feels like a really good first draft. For every aspect of worldbuilding that I enjoyed, there was a bug that had to be overlooked. For every character that I found charming, there was some voiceover that was jarring. For every area that was absolutely gorgeous there was a part of the script that made me extremely grateful for having editors on all my writing. Over and over, I found these flaws didn’t stop me from enjoying the core that I could see underneath. At least, until the game (as far as I can tell) bugged so badly that I literally couldn’t continue. Read more

Microsoft Flight Simulator has prettied-up Australia in a free update Posted: 01 Feb 2022 05:39 AM PST World Update 7 has landed in Microsoft Flight Simulator, continuing efforts to fancy up the globe with more-detailed terrain and handcrafted models for landmarks. This time Australia gets the polish, with scanned photogrammetry replacements for 11 cities, handcrafted models for 94 landmarks and points of interest, and new local missions. It looks pretty! Check out the trailer below. Read more

Startup Panic is a fun management game about a social media company, but will it be as bold as I'd like? Posted: 01 Feb 2022 04:00 AM PST I often find myself intrigued by games where you have to manage a business - not the slow, thoughtful ones like Strange Horticulture (which I like for a different reason), but the surprisingly deep management ones that are like strategy games except for coffee production instead of war. I am usually catastrophically bad at these games, as I lack the sheer nerve to commit all my assets to something at once, or take out loans to cover a product run, even in a fictional digital setting. Still, I was drawn to Startup Panic like a moth to a flame, and giggled to myself at the prospect of cosplaying as a Silicon Valley nerd trying to reinvent having a chicken coop. I called my founder Beth, and the company was therefore Betherium. But it turned out that the product I was tasked with making and selling was, basically, Facebook. Read more

Wordle bought by the New York Times for a seven-figure sum Posted: 01 Feb 2022 02:29 AM PST Oh sure, Sony buying Bungie was big buyout business news yesterday, but the real mega-acquisition of the day was Wordle. The New York Times, a hardcopy blog, are buying the viral hit word puzzle game for "an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures." They say it will be free when it moves under their banner, though it's not clear if it will stay that way. Read more

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