I miss the fake humans, but Fallout 76 feels like Fallout

“Every character you see is a real person,” said Todd Howard at E3, explaining the lack of traditional NPCs in Fallout 76. But I’m not so sure. Does Howard really expect me to believe that ‘CocktimusPrime’ isn’t waiting to greet everyone outside their vault? He’s there as I step into the light, his big, dumb name floating in front of a horizon that’s meant to elicit awe. And there’s no reason it shouldn’t. That sea of autumnal trees and distant storm clouds are lovely. Having winced at the wonky footage of the Xbox One beta last week I’m genuinely surprised at how pretty West Virginia is. Well, the bits of it that aren’t CocktimusPrime.

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Bubsy: Paws On Fire! takes the rubbo bobcat autorunning

After years as a punchline, it seems Bubsy has again become an active series. And we’re supposed to accept that. We’re supposed to tell our children that’s the world we’ve created for them. Our children, who’ll grow up knowing Bubsy not from the astonishing Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits The James Turrell Retrospective but from collectathon platformers with awful puns. Our children. You tell my child, you tell them that one year after the release of Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back, publishers Accolade have announced Bubsy: Paws On Fire! This time, the developers stepping up are Choice Provisions, the makers of the BIT.TRIP games.

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Have You Played… For The King?

Fallout 76 beta date, preload, start times, release date, trailers

It’s been a bit of a rough start, but the beta for Fallout 76 is now out for PC. Therefore it’s worth catching up on everything that we know about the game. Since its reveal at E3 2018, there have been several trailers, some including vague explanations about how it’ll play, and the release date for the game. You’ll also be able to get all the up-to-date beta information and those vital PC minimum/recommended specs. There’s also some lore stuff, along with everything else we know about the game so far, such as any hidden details that could hint at what is to come. (more…)

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Halloween 2018 Special: Some lovely games!

Video games, you may have noticed, are often a little bit horrid. All sorts of naughtiness, and a distinct lack of people just being kind to one another. What are we like?! But fortunately there are games that make an exception to the potty-mouthed meanies that dominate, and today I celebrate them and their cuteness with a collection of lovely screenshots.

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Undertale creator reveals next game in playable… thing

“FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, YOU ARE ADVISED TO REFRAIN FROM DISCUSSION OF THE PROGRAM FOR 24 HOURS,” Undertale creator Toby Fox says about his mysterious new… thing. I wouldn’t want to broadcast hazardous information willy-nilly, so I’ll refrain from that and simply say that the new thing seems to be named Deltarune and Fox wants you to download and run a… thing. It’s a survey, he says. For those willing to take their lives in their hands and read dangerous information, I’ll explain more.

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EA announce Project Atlas, a futuristic dev platform powered by AI and cloud computing

If I turned to Ken Moss, chief technology officer at Electronic Arts, and asked him if one day his tech will let me upload my conscious into a digital utopia – I bet he’d look me square in the eyes and tell me yes. In an official EA blog post announcing Project Atlas, he mentions practically everything else.

Project Atlas will be a game development platform powered by cloud computing and futuristic AI. Moss hopes that devs will use it to create hyper-personalised “living, breathing worlds that constantly evolve”, where your chats with NPCs are “virtually indecipherable from a human interaction”. Presuming all this actually works.

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