Are videogame publishers andThe Mawin cahoots to overwhelm me with impulse-buys and sabotage my attempts to Report the News?
The Maw can be pretty cunning for an indiscriminate force of cosmic famine.
How else to explain Phil Spencers T-shirts?
But lets not worry about that for the moment.
As ever, let us know if Ive missed anything obvious, like a newHalf-Lifegame or something.
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
IT IS MONDAY
Set up a cordon around the emergence site!
Salt the entrances and exfoliate the wallpaper!
ZA/UM have formally acknowledged layoffs and a project cancellation reported last week byGHLF.
The changelog is so massive they’ve broken it into chapters.
Do the words “Spine of Malatros” mean anything to you?
PCGhave dug upan Elden Ring modthat turns the whole game upside down.
One to occupy you while you wait for the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, perhaps.
Midday music: quite a downbeat choice, but I’ve been enjoying Metric’sNothing Is Perfect.
It’s thevery lovely, c’mon, Touch The Artwork 2.
Many SP & MP ODST themed ones.
Some galaxy-spanning, some more intimate…and one that was really dark.
Andmerry Balatro weekto you as well!
But what does “triple-A” mean?
An open-world multiplayer affair?
Towers to climb in your cab?
Your guess is as good as mine.
The ideal way to pass time while you’re waiting for official expansion Shadow of the Erdtree to arrive!
TUESDAY DAWNS
Cry havoc, and let slip the blogs of war!
I get an ever-so-gentle Outer Wilds vibe from it.
According toPCGamer(specifically, freelance RPS contributor Rick Lane- hello Rick!)
It’s set after Judgement Day, which is certainly a good timeframe for a survival experience.
Will we get to infiltrate human enclaves as closet cyborgs?
Here’s Nacon’s teaser trailer from a year back.
PCGamesNreportsthat Everywhere and Mindseye studio Build a Rocket Boy are laying people off.
This is the studio founded by former GTA developer Leslie Benzies.
Apparently, the publishing department, QA and art teams have gotten the worst of it.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader hasreceived a major patch.
Assassin’s Creed: Mirage has anew updatethat adds permadeath to the game.
Here’s a new trailer for Sand Land, Bandai Namco’s Dragon Ball-flavoured vehicular RPG.
People are still having a devil of a time finding a sessino in Helldivers 2.
As reported byPCGamesN, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt has said it’s not as simple as buying more servers.
“We need to optimise the backend code,” he said.
“We are hitting some real limits.”
That’s a lot of money, and a lot of games, if you were wondering.
Build A Rocket Boy is the new studio from former GTA producer Leslie Benzies.
Balatro, the Poker roguelikeKatharine awarded a Bestest Best in her review yesterday, is actually out now.
You’ll find iton Steam.
It’s being published by Gearbox and developed by frequent co-development studio Abstraction.
Original developers Motiga closed down with the game.
It’s aiming to release this yearand there’s an announcement trailer now.
Here’san expanded breakdown of what Gigantic: Rampage Edition is, and how it came to be.
Xbox have announced a second set ofgames coming to Game Pass in the second half of February.
The first trailer for#ELDENRINGShadow of the Erdtree will be revealed in 16 hours.
Join us at 15:00 UTC.https://t.co/vdG8dJvcetpic.twitter.com/lBbKJYxW2z
HERE BE WEDNESDAY
Warp factor 4, engage!
Keep on trucking, DayZ!
So, Elden Ring DLC time.
Any hopes or speculations?
Perhaps they will let us play as one of those giant living urns.
Heck, I wouldn’t mind being an NPC in Elden Ring.
It’s very peaceful when there are no players around.
Jeppe Carlsen has shared a clip of an early prototype for what would become Cocoon.
COCOON - first prototype (2017) vs final game (2023).
I’m going to crudely summarise it as Terraria Sea Of Thieves.
They also released a hotfix patch to address a ‘Running out of GPU memory’ error.
you could see the full breakdown below.
Our team has been poring over your feedback and plotting out the path for future plan.
Very excited for this one.
The project was originally funded via Kickstarter back in 2015.
Riot’s long in-development tag team fighting gameProject L finally has a real name: 2XKO.
Millennia, Paradox’s take on the history-spanning 4X genre, willlaunch on March 26th.
Today, it was announced thatit too would shut down on April 22nd, 2024.
Another revival project using Paragon assets,Fault: Elder Orb, remains live in Early Access.
There’s also a cinematic trailer with some really pleasingly practical, ramshackle mech and exosuit designs.
FRIDAY AT LAST
Instruct the ion beam crews to open fire!
Here’s a video of the forthcoming Adventure mode for the Steam edition of Dwarf Fortress, feat.
Tarn Adams of Bay12 Games.
Eleventh Hour Games founder Judd Cobler has written arecap postabout Last Epoch’s launch.
It’s already an excellent game, if you haven’t played it, asKatharine’s review explained.
I’m in love with Night-Runners and itsfree Prologue demo on Steam.
That work will finish on February 27th with the release of the Trackmania: Rally Update.
I really like the look of its BMX bike riding.
