Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2019
Tamashii is an aggressively unsettling horror platformer
Horror is a genre I appreciate, but seldom gets under my skin the way it does for others. Tamashii, despite being a relatively simple-looking puzzle platformer, jangles my nerves like a dozen spiders crawling across my face. Released today and developed by Vikintor, I’ve had my eye on this one for a while after seeing some early footage on Twitter. The game has a bizarre video collage look combined with some aggressive post-processing effects that just makes my skin crawl, even if at its heart, it’s not too unusual as a game. Take a peek at the launch trailer below.
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Hearts Of Iron IV: Man The Guns rewrites history today
There’s a new Hearts Of Iron IV expansion out today, and this one goes ham on the history books. While Paradox’s grand strategy series has always played a bit fast and loose with real history, the Man The Guns expansion pairs a slew of naval warfare upgrades with some wildly divergent histories. The British Empire could re-establish monarchic power, or decolonise decades early, while America can hurl itself into a second civil war in pursuit of reforms. Of course, this being a Paradox game there’s a shipload of free naval changes coming in a free update for owners of the base game. A trailer sets sail below.
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Space Engineers launches out of early access with a free weekend
I’ve always admired how Space Engineers stuck to its guns – while it may have added a couple small scripted scenarios, it’s still just a game about building, with no overarching plot. Even as it exits early access today and launches in full, Keen Software’s game about being an astronaut engineer remains a true sandbox. Players bodge together improvised spacecraft (optionally with friends) and make their own fun. Whether that fun involves solitary mining and construction or multiplayer team shooter scenarios is up to the players. See the launch trailer below.
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Destiny 2 adds goodies free and premium next week in Season Of The Drifter
New places to go, new gear to hoard, a heavy focus on the PvPvE Gambit mode and the return of the universe’s most hated pistol – Thorn – are at the heart of Destiny 2‘s next season of updates. The first parts of Season Of The Drifter kick off next Tuesday, March 5th, with the introduction of Gambit Prime, a more focused, single-round variant of the hybrid play-mode for annual pass holders. There’s also some new Gambit maps coming for everyone who owns the Forsaken expansion, and the option to host custom matches. See Bungie break it down in the video below.
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Podcast: Lies, tricks and twists
“Truth is the first casualty of first-person shooters,” said the philosopher Ian Videogames. Time has proven him correct. Not a game is developed without some use of smoke and/or mirror. But this week on the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, we shall not be lying to you. We are journalists and we stand for the Truth with a big ‘T’. No more tricksy use of code and polygon, we say. No more lying!
Unless it makes us go really, really fast.
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Offworld Trading Company’s free multiplayer client is open for business
Has Offworld Trading Company, the combat-free RTS about big businesses competing for a slice of Martian pie, now become renowned enough that we don’t need to stick ‘Soren Johnson’s’ in front of it any more?
The Civ 4 designer’s bullet-free strategy game always did a smart job of recreating the tension of conflict and agonies of decision-making within the world of science-fictional business, but if you’ve long been unconvinced from afar, here’s a late chance to sample it for no-pennies. Its promised free multiplayer client, acting as a demo of uncommon largesse, is out today.
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Dissidia Final Fantasy NT punching onto PC as free-to-play
Following the epic boyband road trip of Final Fantasy XV, Square Enix now plan to let us create our own pop trios in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT. Today they announced the 3v3 crossover brawler, made with Dead Or Alive developers Team Ninja and released on PlayStation 4 in 2018, is coming to PC as a free-to-play edition. I think my dream pop trio might be Noctis, Kefka, and Sephiroth? Or Yuna, Lightning, and Noctis could be an interesting musical dynamic. Squeenix insist the trios do fight each other, but I assume it’s mostly about building and admiring your dream lineup.
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Anthem components – all the masterwork components
In order to bulk out your Javelins in Anthem, you can equip components. Each one equipped can upgrade the amount of damage you can take, how long you can fly, and rounds you can carry. However there are some that are just flat out better than others; with Masterwork and Legendary components being the most coveted. This guide will go over all of the masterwork components in the game, which Javelins can use which one, and listing what they can do.
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The Sinking City wants players thinking like (weird) detectives
It’s hard enough being a private eye when the world makes sense, but when there’s fish-men on every corner, weird cults and magic involved, investigating crimes in The Sinking City looks tricky. It’s a challenge I’m eager to try my hand at, though, after seeing the latest chunk of footage from Frogware’s upcoming survival horror detective adventure. There’s clues to find, but no prompts popping up saying you’ve cracked the case – the player gets to decide when they’ve built up a strong enough profile to accuse a suspect. Take an investigative peek for yourself below.
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The RPS Verdict: Trials Rising
Brendan: Hello, John. We have been playing Trials Rising. It is a extreme game about being extreme. Do you have time to talk about motorbicycles and all the amazing flips and flops that they can do?
John: Oh, I suppose so.
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Mutant Year Zero now has a demo, plus a challenge mode
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, engages in turn-based tactical combat like a duck, and is free to look at like a duck, it must be a demo for Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden. All and sundry are now invited to try out 2018’s delightful tactics ’em up for free, sneaking and shooting through the post-apocalyptic wasteland full of mutants and oddities in the game’s opening stages. It’s a bit XCOM-meets-S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-meets-Howard The Duck-meets-Hitman, and really quite a bit good. As you can now see for yourself. For folks who were already Stalking around the Zone, hey, a new challenge mode with leaderboards launched this week too.
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The Division 2 open beta now locking and preloading
Ahead of The Division 2‘s free open beta test running this weekend, you can now preload the beta client so you’ll be ready to go when it’s go time. Well, you’ll be ready if you can download 44.5GB by tomorrow morning. Yes, that preloading period does seem a little short for folks without mega-whizzy connections. But hey, if you want to scamper about apocalyptic Washington D.C. with your warpals in Ubisoft’s online looter-shooter, hop to it.
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Yarr! Fortnite Season 8 erupts with lava and pirates
Pirates and their natural meme enemies, ninjas, have brought their decade-old cyberfight to Fortnite with the launch of Season 8. Epic have once again reshaped the landscape of their free-to-play battle royale ’em up, sprouting a volcano sicking up lava. What I’m most interested to see, however, is the pirate cannons now scattered around the map, which players can use to fire boooring cannon balls or hop in themselves and fly with terrible destructive force as a human cannonball. I’ll take that foolishness, thank you.
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