Sonntag, 31. März 2019

Reminisce about childhood imagination in Where The Bees Make Honey

I don’t think I’ve ever played as a frustrated telemarketer in a video game before, but that’s Sunny, the protagonist of Where The Bees Make Honey, a narrative puzzle game that released earlier this week. It’s not a game about making cold calls, though, but instead about reminiscing on the freedoms of childhood. Here’s a trailer showing off some of those moments of reflection, all made hazy by what I assume is the visual representation of nostalgia.

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Eavesdrop on past events in Unheard, out now

If you press your ear up against the keyhole, you’ll be able to eavesdrop on Unheard, the audio-based detective ‘em up that launched this week. Players can now spy on the recordings of past crimes to their heart’s content, or at least until they’ve unravelled the tangled waveforms from a set of apparently unrelated mysteries. Listen in to the trailer below.

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Screenshot Saturday Sunday: Goat meets go-kart, sci-fi scenery, and squirrel songs

Screenshot Saturday, Twitter’s weekly tag for developers to share snippets of their in-progress games has again rolled around, leaving behind a treasure trove for me to pick through and choose some pretty gifs to share with you. Within: an over-eager goat, a sun-drenched world, and some octopus-battling rodents.

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Dollhouse schedules scares for May release date

Film noir horror game Dollhouse is launching on May 24th, and they’ve put out a new trailer to celebrate. I made the mistake of watching said trailer last night, after dark, while home alone. I do not recommend this for the faint of heart. It has all the things you need from a horror game: giggling children and muted colours and warped children’s lullabies. And jump scares. Lots of jump scares. If it’s still light out where you are, or you’re braver than I am, take a peek through your fingers.

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for recuperating after seeing the Peatbog Fairies, my favourite Celtic electro-folk-rock-jazz band. Or for reading the best writing about videogames from the past week.

Or maybe the best writing about Dril, the famed semi-anonymous Twitter scamp who deserves a Nobel Prize. That’s according to Tom Whyman, whose piece for the New York Times had me cackling where actual Dril tweets earn a bemused smirk at best.

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Samstag, 30. März 2019

Cycling rolled into esports at the Zwift eRacing Championships

Move aside, competitive Farming Simulator. Make way, e-tennis. Get out of here, professional Stardew Valley. There’s a new esport in town, the majestic British Cycling Zwift eRacing Championships, which took place this week.

The thing about eRacing is that it’s not a biking simulator. It is actual biking, on what is essentially a stationary unicycle, which then gets transmuted into controls for your avatar. You can tell it’s a video game, though, because it also has power-ups. I can’t for the life of me figure out how you collect them, but they are there.

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‘Skyrim grandma’ Shirley Curry to become NPC in The Elder Scrolls VI

The Elder Scrolls 6 is still a (long, long) ways off, but Bethesda have confirmed the only news about it that truly matters: YouTuber and grandmother Shirley Curry will be included in the game. Last year, fans rallied to get her added as an NPC, and the developers have obliged, inviting Curry to their studios have her likeness scanned and saved for use in their development magic. The future is here and it’s nice sometimes, actually.

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EGX Rezzed 2019: Join us at the RPS Mixer in association with Fishing Cactus

EGX Rezzed is the UK’s loveliest gaming event, attended by gaming’s loveliest people – and also the staff of RPS. That’s why every year we hold the RPS Mixer, as an opportunity for all those lovely people (and also the staff of RPS) to hang, to chat, to prattle and jabber. This year is no different: we’ve teamed up with developers Fishing Cactus to hold the RPS Mixer on Thursday, April 4th at the Captain Kidd. Come, join us, and read on for details.

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Heave Ho will ask you to trust your friends as far as you can throw them

Who among us has not at some point wanted to gently take our friends’ hands and then hurl them bodily across a perilous gap? That’s the aim of the game in Heave Ho, an upcoming cooperative grapple-and-fling physics ‘em up from French studio Le Cartel. Here, I’m slinging a trailer at you across the dangerous pit that is the internet.

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A psychologist talks about game addiction and other brain things at EGX Rezzed 2019

I, one of the Alices (guess which) have read at least two entire books about video games, and one of them is a book called Lost In A Good Game by Dr. Pete Etchells. It’s about how games aren’t as bad as some studies, Piers Morgan, and approximately all of the newspapers say they are, plus a little bit about his own life and the role video games have played in them. How interesting!

And look, by coincidence, Dr. Etchells is going to be talking to me at EGX Rezzed 2019 about all that and more. Truly, we shall become the real psychonauts.

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Valve teases its virtual reality headset, the Valve Index

A website has appeared for the Valve Index, a new virtual reality headset from (obviously) Valve. This is where I’m supposed to tell you more about it, but alas, I cannot, because the webpage simply reads “Upgrade your experience. May 2019.” What will happen when May rolls around? I do not know. What exactly is this experience upgrade they’re talking about? Your guess is as good as mine! Can I put a third thing here, as article rhythm dictates I should? No, because that’s literally all the website says.

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What are we all playing this weekend?

This weekend, we are like a duck: aloof, quizzical, gagging for bread, aggressive to strangers during mating season, and calm on the surface but paddling like hell underneath. PAX East is this weekend in the Americky, and we have a small part in it thanks to sharing parent companies. Then next week is EGX Rezzed, the games show in London which we have a much larger part in. I’ve heard what some of the others are up to and… oof, that’s a murderload of prep work, let alone on-the-days work. Me, naw mate, I’m skipping it all to stay home. I only leave Scotland for births, marriages, deaths, and free dinners.

ALSO, REMEMBER: clocks go back on Sunday morning in the UK. Or forward. Spring back, leap forward? Your clock is wrong, I’m saying.

What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!

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Freitag, 29. März 2019

Gwent goes gloriously gothic as The Crimson Curse launches

It’s best not to count a vampire out, but this launched yesterday already, so the Count is definitely out. Higher Vampire Dettlaff van der Eretein and his bat-winged horde have descended upon Gwent, CD Projekt’s Witcher-spinoff CCG. Today’s expansion, The Crimson Curse is the first major card expansion the game has seen since its open beta debut in 2017, a long time for a CCG to go without fresh blood. Fortunately, it looks like The Crimson Curse brings a juicy transfusion of new stuff to the meta, including five new leaders and 101 new cards and fun new rules to learn. Below, the developers walking through the new stuff.

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