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- A brief history of Sonic The Hedgehog on PC, from musical conspiracies to not-really-3D 3D games
- Crypto copycat store duplicates Itch.io, gets slapped down by founder
- Dicey Dungeons rolls out its free Reunion update in July
- Untangling minimalist puzzles in Hook 2 is catchy
- Occupy White Walls review: create and curate your own personal art gallery
- Ron Gilbert doesn’t want to talk about Return To Monkey Island anymore
- Our favourite games of 2022 so far
- This parody of The Witness is funny, fun, and free
- Much-delayed expansion Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course is finally out today
- Cult Of The Lamb is like The Binding Of Isaac had a cute colony sim, but with more Satan
- Valve halve Steam Deck SSD bandwidth on some models, say games performance is unaffected
| A brief history of Sonic The Hedgehog on PC, from musical conspiracies to not-really-3D 3D games Posted: 30 Jun 2022 09:30 AM PDT  Let’s face facts: the old Sonic games have been re-released more times than I’ve had hot dinners. And every single Sonic fan has bought every single one of them, such is our sheer madness. We’re a little spoiled on PC for Sonic content these days, with every recent game of note having its own PC port that’s immediately been modded from bottom to breakfast. But it wasn’t always this simple, oh no. It used to be pretty slim pickings for us Sonicsters, and I’m here to tell you what we fought through to get to the promised land of ports we bask in today. |
| Crypto copycat store duplicates Itch.io, gets slapped down by founder Posted: 30 Jun 2022 09:07 AM PDT  The creator of indie game storefront Itch.io has called out a website that appears to have taken the site’s code for itself and begun selling creators’ games without permission. Dubbed 'W3itch.io', the copycat site's creator replied to a tweet from Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran, who promptly asked them not to "rip off" Itch.io anymore. W3itch.io even described itself as a “free-as-freedom open marketplace for independent game creators inspired by Itch and Gitcoin”. Not the most sensible of ideas to engage with the person whose work you’re replicating, W3itch.io. |
| Dicey Dungeons rolls out its free Reunion update in July Posted: 30 Jun 2022 09:00 AM PDT  Charming roguelike deckbuilder Dicey Dungeons will see six new episodes added to its gameshow on July 7th in the free Reunion update for all players. Hailing from designer Terry Cavanagh, the DLC gives each of the base game’s six contestants an episode with “wildly new designs and rules”, the devs say. Play through all the episodes and you should get another 4 to 5 hours out of the game. Watch the trailer below for a looksee. |
| Untangling minimalist puzzles in Hook 2 is catchy Posted: 30 Jun 2022 06:13 AM PDT  A few years back, Pip enjoyed Hook, a minimalist puzzle game about untangling mish-mashes of hooks and pins by removing pieces in the correct order. If you try to remove that one, the hook will snag on that pin, so first this pin needs to go but ah! that goes through the middle of this ring, so... it's interesting to understand a shape and system so you can pull it to pieces. Now a sequel is out, and it's also nice, and it's under £2, and it has a demo too. |
| Occupy White Walls review: create and curate your own personal art gallery Posted: 30 Jun 2022 05:00 AM PDT  Back in 2020, a group of digital art smugglers lifted the National Gallery’s entire art collection, nabbing each of the 2,400 hi-res digital artworks straight from the institution’s website. Since the collection is made up of paintings long past their copyright expiration, countless works by Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt, and the rest were all legally (technically) snatched up in what could have well been the biggest digital heist in art history. The cheeky looters in question were StikiPixels, the very same team behind the art gallery sim Occupy White Walls, and now anyone who owns a PC and a copy of the game can hang these priceless paintings in their own private virtual collections. In OWW (officially pronounced Owouawwouaw if you have the time), you can build your own architecturally ambitious gallery and stuff it full of artwork. |
| Ron Gilbert doesn’t want to talk about Return To Monkey Island anymore Posted: 30 Jun 2022 04:41 AM PDT  Monkey Island co-creator Ron Gilbert appears to have taken down his long-running blog today, after posting that he doesn’t feel he can share news about the upcoming Return To Monkey Island online anymore. While no longer there to view, VGC managed to capture Gilbert’s post on grumpygamer.com before the site became unavailable. You can see the new art style for yourself in the trailer below. |
| Our favourite games of 2022 so far Posted: 30 Jun 2022 04:00 AM PDT  Against all possible odds, we're officially halfway through 2022. What a year it's been so far! After one of the busiest starts to the gaming calendar in recent memory (looking at you, Elden Ring), my backlog is barely keeping it together right now. I've started so many things on as many different services that just keeping track of what I've played when is fast becoming a second job. If you, too, have been feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of new and exciting releases coming out, then why not have a gander at this freshly compiled list of all our favourite games from the year so far? Maybe you'll find something that will similarly catch your eye, just as it's done ours. I'll warn you now, though. It's a big list. |
| This parody of The Witness is funny, fun, and free Posted: 30 Jun 2022 03:52 AM PDT  Video game parodies are often ropey, being neither funny nor fun to play. I am delighted that The Looker is both, and free too. It's a loving send-up of The Witness, inviting us to a strange island to solve more line-drawing puzzles and listen to more audio tapes. Some of the puzzles are quite clever, and many of the jokes made me laugh—plus it's only an hour or two to complete. |
| Much-delayed expansion Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course is finally out today Posted: 30 Jun 2022 03:26 AM PDT  Classically animated platformer Cuphead will finally get its Delicious Last Course with the release of the expansion on Steam today. The DLC adds a new character, Ms. Chalice, the third beverage-container bonce you can play as. Once you’ve unlocked her in the DLC you’ll be able to play as her in the base game too. There's also a new island with mountains, icy tundra and desert to navigate. Watch the trailer below, although it’s getting on a bit now. |
| Cult Of The Lamb is like The Binding Of Isaac had a cute colony sim, but with more Satan Posted: 30 Jun 2022 02:41 AM PDT  It wasn't until I played a hands-on preview of Cult Of The Lamb this weekend that I realised how much ovine imagery is knocking around Christianity. All them lambs being sacrificed in the Old Testament, shepherds, flocks, the lion and the lamb. In Cult Of The Lamb, which is sort of a dungeon-crawling roguelite with a colony sim bolted on, you are a literal rather than metaphorical lamb. Although possibly also a metaphorical lamb. Point is, the game makes great hay from the juxtaposition of cute fluffy animals and a violent cult. |
| Valve halve Steam Deck SSD bandwidth on some models, say games performance is unaffected Posted: 30 Jun 2022 02:30 AM PDT  Steam Deck production might be ramping up again but it turns out more recent orders could be something of a lucky dip, SSD-wise. Valve have quietly updated their Steam Deck tech specs page with a note that the NVMe SSDs in “some” 256GB and 512GB models might now use the PCIe Gen 3.0 x2 interface, meaning the drive has half the usual bandwidth of the Gen 3.0 x 4 SSDs that previously featured as standard. As first spotted by German site HardwareLuxx, there's no indication as to why Valve made this change, and it doesn’t look like anyone with an outstanding Steam Deck order will know which SSD bandwidth they’ll get in advance. However, Valve's added note explains that “In our testing, we did not see any impact to gaming performance between x2 and x4.” |
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