Good Riddance (Time of Your Life?) Come June 25, the final nail will be driven into Ouya’s coffin. It’s a coffin already riddled with nails, this last one more symbolic than fate-sealing. Ouya has been dead for some time now, but there’s one final chapter to write. This epilogue is a closing reminder that, yeah, the Ouya sucked. Maybe that should be on its epitaph rather than in its epilogue....
John Freeman walked like speed of light back to his motorcycl and left behind the bad place behind him. John Freeman had to ride his motorcycle really fast back to the office but John Freemans gas ran out. John Freeman jumped fast off the motorcycle and landed on dead peoples hands. “Gordon Freeman is now these hands… i must kill the next boss and live up to full-life consequences!” John Freeman said out loud....
No Mac version planned When the originalSanctumcame out, it took the indie world by storm. As a first person tower defense game in 2011 (that kicked ass by the way), it was pretty unique. Coffee Stain Studios looks to repeat that success with a fully featured sequel, and if the playable build I sat down with at PAX East is anything to go by, they’re going to surpass their prior efforts....
Insert some pun ending in Jailhouse Rock Don’t blink, or you might just miss Overkill release some new content forPayday 2.Whoops, there goes another… and another… Sod it, let’s just look at this newest one:The Golden Grin Casino. With swanky as hell music, promises of a taking Elvis hostage, and copious gambling,The Golden Grin Casinois the last heist to feature ‘The Dentist,’ played byBreaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito. It will also introduce a new playable character who sounds decidedly Russian, but my language skills aren’t perfect....
Curt Schilling’s enthusiasm for 38 Studio’s first title,Kindgoms of Amalur: Reckoning, is unquestionably infectious. I’m at the Baltimore-based Big Huge Games, a studio that sits a mere three miles from where I live. I’m listening to Schilling talking about the game in a small, dark room, sitting next to his 38 Studios partners: artist andSpawncreator Todd McFarlane; best-selling fantasy author R.A. Salvatore; andElder Scrolls IV: Obliviondesigner, Ken Rolston. Schilling, best known by most as a former pitcher for the MLB, is grinning from ear to ear....
Production woes hamper next-gen success Sony has released itslatest financial resultsfor the fiscal year ending March 2022. And while its powerful new platform PlayStation 5 has successfully surpassed an impressive 19.3 million shipments since its 2021 launch, the publisher has missed its overall second-year PS5 sales target by around three million units. The industry giant shipped two million PS5 consoles in the first three months of 2022. While this is certainly not a number to be scoffed at, it is way down from the 3....
The app will find controller compatible games for you Razer’s latest is the Junglecat, an iPhone 5/5s specific gaming controller. It features a full d-pad, four face buttons, and two bumpers. Unlike some of the competition, you’ll be able to hide the controller by simply sliding it out of view. The Junglecat is 20mm thin, and Razer says it feels like a standard protective case. Hard to judge based on pictures, as it does look kind of beefy....
Robotron evolution A few seconds intoNex Machina, I knew Housemarque had nailed it. Fundamentally, it justworks. The studio has won over a lot of arcade lovers with games likeSuper Stardust HDandResogun. I liked ’em and the team’s newer title,Alienation, quite a lot. ButRobotron: 2084was always my main jam. That’s what I wanted to see someone base their game on. That’s what gets me fired up. Nex Machinais the same “shoot the robots, save the people” concept but modernized through the lens of Housemarque andRobotron‘s own Eugene Jarvis, who served as a creative consultant....
While I was sold on the concept ofWET— a chick shoots and slices up thugs in a grindhouse-inspired action game — I wasn’t exactly sold on what’s arguably a game’s most important aspect: How it plays. I had some hands-on time with the game at E3, and while it was enjoyable, I was admittedly a bit underwhelmed. When that same E3 demo hit consoles a few months later, my original impressions had been confirmed — lots of style, with little substance and questionably stiff and sloppy controls....
It’s hard to keep track of the numbers, isn’t it? Well,Modern Warfare 2is right around the corner, but there’s already talk ofCall of Duty 7, and the rumors connect the musical score to some possible locations. The folks atThat Videogame Blogheard from a source that Activision has been looking to license music forCall of Duty 7, and it seems that they were looking for Vietnam War era tunes for the score....
There were complaints about the game’s randomness Reading through Alasdair’s review ofGods Will Be Watching, I don’t know if I could put myself through some of the game’s horrors even once, much less multiple times due to failure. Deconstructeam’sMercy updateshould help. It offers three new difficulty levels, two of which are free of the dreaded random-number generator (RNG), following player feedback. There are some miscellaneous fixes in the update, too. Good on you, Deconstructeam — both for acting quickly to implement these changes and for coming up with that image....
Is Grunkle Stan a kid or a squid? If you’re still trying to figure out if you’re a child or a mollusc, fear not. You’re in for a treat tomorrow, and a new chance to truly find yourself, when the new map forSplatoonarrives. Camp Triggerfishis the new map’s name. Featuring a lot of bridges and choke-points, therealmatch begins when gates around the map open up and allow for easier access to the other team....
Cool name The folks behindHuman Revolutionare working on anewDeus Exfor current-generation consoles and PC. Could its title beDeus Ex: Mankind Divided? Square Enix trademarked the phrase in the United Kingdom, reportsCVG. It sure seems thematically appropriate. During the brief announcement for the aforementioned unnamed project, studio head David Anfossi spoke about the concept art above, saying the piece “shows trans-humanism segregation, which is a backdrop to our vision for the nextDeus Ex....
