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- Total War: Warhammer 3's roadmap lays out plans for Immortal Empires and mod tools
- Skull & Bones footage leaked, but it sounds like an official re-reveal isn't far off
- The making of The Gunk: how the SteamWorld devs went from mist balls to saving the planet
- A Fallout 76 theatre troupe are performing Romeo and Juliet live in-game tomorrow
- I stand with the excellent regicidal duelling robots of Hats Are Not Allowed
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt system requirements, PC performance and the best settings to use
- Dragon Age QA testers are joining the growing ranks of unionised industry workers
- Winkeltje: The Little Shop keeps things simple, but lets my imagination run wild
- Shotgun King is roguelike chess with a shotgun
- Respawn reveal the surprising backstory for new Apex Legends hero Newcastle
- Activision Blizzard shareholders approve the company's $69 billion acquisition by Microsoft
| Total War: Warhammer 3's roadmap lays out plans for Immortal Empires and mod tools Posted: 29 Apr 2022 02:39 PM PDT  Creative Assembly have laid out the 2022 development roadmap for Total War: Warhammer 3. It contains detailed descriptions of the fixes and balance tweaks to come over the next few months, but the exciting stuff will all land this autumn, including the series-spanning Immortal Empires, mod tools and the first of several revamps for the series' older races. |
| Skull & Bones footage leaked, but it sounds like an official re-reveal isn't far off Posted: 29 Apr 2022 01:56 PM PDT  Pirate 'em up Skull & Bones has been delayed and delayed, and is currently expected to reach port sometime this year or next. It's been a while since we last saw it in action, but four minutes of footage leaked earlier today, showing a walkthrough of the game designed to prime journalists or testers before they play the game. The seemingly old footage has already been taken down, but the official Skull & Bones Twitter account has tweeted a hint that it won't be long before we see something more official. |
| The making of The Gunk: how the SteamWorld devs went from mist balls to saving the planet Posted: 29 Apr 2022 09:00 AM PDT  Finding your niche can often be the key to success for smaller developers, but Swedish team Image & Form refuse to be pigeonholed. Over the last ten years they've tackled every genre, from tower defence to turn-based tactics, RPGs and action platformers. With their latest game, The Gunk, they've finally entered the realm of 3D adventure games. Released on Xbox Game Pass at the tail end of last year, The Gunk was a big step up for the makers of SteamWorld Dig. Not only was it their first game in 3D, and their first time using a new engine, but it was also their first title that had nothing to do with the series they'd built their name on. As it makes its way to Steam today, I sat down with director Ulf Hartelius to talk more about the creation of the game's titular goop, and how the timing of its environmental themes about cleaning up its gunked up planet was much more than just a Death Stranding-style happy accident. |
| A Fallout 76 theatre troupe are performing Romeo and Juliet live in-game tomorrow Posted: 29 Apr 2022 08:36 AM PDT  Rarely has the threat to bite your thumb at someone resulted in all-out nuclear armageddon, but one group of Fallout 76 players will prove the exception tomorrow when they perform William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet live in the game. The Wasteland Theatre Company has even built a stage they say is modelled after London’s Globe Theatre, renowned for its performances of the Bard’s plays. They’re a week late to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, but I won’t judge because I can’t even add up properly in Freddos. |
| I stand with the excellent regicidal duelling robots of Hats Are Not Allowed Posted: 29 Apr 2022 08:30 AM PDT  This is just superb. I'm not a fan of most fighting games. All too often they have too many elaborate moves, too much memory testing, or they feel like glorified puzzles you have to figure out the one solution to. Hats Are Not Allowed takes an approach I find far more interesting. Combat is pared down to a few basic principles, and the challenge comes from learning how to combine them, and timing is less about animations than about second guessing your opponent. I can't say it's one of the best dueling games ever, but it's the best one I've played for ages. |
| Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt system requirements, PC performance and the best settings to use Posted: 29 Apr 2022 07:30 AM PDT  Battle royale spinoff and subtitle collector Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt launched this week , following a delay to address feedback from its early access phase. That included ample reports of performance issues, but fortunately, what I’ve played over the past couple of days points towards a much more stable brand of last-vamp-standing shootery. Let’s take a look, then, at Bloodhunt’s PC performance, system requirements and the best settings to tweak. |
| Dragon Age QA testers are joining the growing ranks of unionised industry workers Posted: 29 Apr 2022 07:30 AM PDT  QA contractors working directly on the next Dragon Age with BioWare Edmonton have filed to unionise, just the latest in a string of such decisions affecting high-profile companies throughout the industry. The workers are employed by the internationally-operating contract services company Keywords Studios but contracted out to BioWare. They’ve now formed the KWS Edmonton United group and have named low pay and concern at being instructed back into the office while Covid-19 remains a danger as their reasons to seek collective bargaining. |
| Winkeltje: The Little Shop keeps things simple, but lets my imagination run wild Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:30 AM PDT  A rooster calls, and the sun rises as I stock the shelves for another day in Winkeltje: The Little Shop, a business management game about running a little store in a fantasy town. I recently inherited Hefford’s Hovel and, after a manic start, have managed to become well-known for my loaves of bread. Each day customers charge into the store and raid the various displays, tussling over freshly-baked rolls before scrambling home to slap them on a plate. It’s mass hysteria, but what can I say? I make damn good bread. Fresh meals are just one of six item categories you can sell in Winkeltje, but I don’t need to worry about the rest. Over a few in-game days, your store starts to specialise in the goods you stock, so customers will visit expecting to find those same items. When you enter the Hovel, you’re greeted with the toasty warmth of the oven as the scent of baking dough drifts through the air. You won’t see us preparing potions or crafting clothes, no sir. For that, you’ll have to go elsewhere. |
| Shotgun King is roguelike chess with a shotgun Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:13 AM PDT  Take chess, reduce one side to only the king, fill him with a terrible wrath, hand him a shotgun, then watch him go. That's Shotgun King, a roguelikelike turn-based shooter where units (mostly) move like chess pieces, only our lone king has a shotgun. It might sound like a throwaway joke game but Shotgun King is an interesting and fun challenge, especially when your upgrades also bestow different buffs upon the opposing army. And it has a free early version so you can have a go yourself. |
| Respawn reveal the surprising backstory for new Apex Legends hero Newcastle Posted: 29 Apr 2022 04:56 AM PDT  The latest backstory video for Apex Legends has arrived, but it turns out Respawn and EA pulled a fast one on us when they supposedly confirmed the identity of rookie Legend Newcastle as Jackson Williams. So Newcastle isn’t the Newcastle that's been in the Apex Legends backstory for ages, yet he is Newcastle. How does that work? Well, Jackson Williams is Newcastle now. He just wasn’t always. |
| Activision Blizzard shareholders approve the company's $69 billion acquisition by Microsoft Posted: 29 Apr 2022 03:57 AM PDT  Shareholders in Activision Blizzard approved overwhelmingly to accept Microsoft Corporation’s offer of $68.7 billion (£54.66 billion) to acquire the company at yesterday’s Special Meeting of Stockholders. More than 98% of the shares voted in favour of the buyout offer, Activision Blizzard confirmed in a statement released on their website. The largest payment for a technology company in recorded history, toppling Dell’s acquisition of EMC Data Storage from 2016, it’s now expected the deal will conclude during Microsoft’s fiscal year, which ends on June 30th 2023. |
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