Ah, here we are doing the same thing over again – and yet, this one is different. Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son is breaking the loop of movie sequels sticking to the same media format and will instead be a virtual reality adventure game.
You can see what’s old and what’s new, plus some cute little rodent friends, in the trailer.
Sundays are for being on aeroplanes. Possibly reading the best writing about videogames from the past week.
For Eurogamer, Cian Maher spoke to the Oblivion modders who collaborated with Terry Pratchett. It’s a heartwarming piece, not least because it provides a new perspective on a great man whose signature used to sit on my mantelpiece.
“Have you heard the quote, ‘We know more about deep space than we do about the ocean’?” writes developer Paloma Dawkins on Oceanarium’s itch.io page. “This is a game inspired by that. It doesn’t seem fair if you ask me, the ocean is full of undiscovered aliens.”
They’re about to get discovered, though, since you can now dive into Oceanarium for free. There are even a handful in the game’s teaser trailer:
Rainstorm EP is a pleasingly simple game about digging up cassette tapes that have been lost around a rundown car park, and then listening to them as the nighttime rain pours down.
Playing it has made me quite sleepy, so here, take a look (and listen) to a little of it in the launch trailer below.
Twitch have released some new tools into the livestreaming wild today, aiming to make it easier for community moderators to keep those chat boxes free of bad actors.
Streamers and their chosen mods will be able to keep better track of people who are chatting away by viewing information like the date of their account creation and any previous timeouts and bans, as well as leaving notes about their behaviour for one another to read.
Stealthy 2.5D side-scrolling platformer Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China is free for keepsies as part of Ubisoft’s Lunar New Year sale right now.
It’s been a while since I played this first entry in the Chronicles trilogy, and it was on a platform forbidden in these halls, but I remember it being quite good. The painterly style is certainly nice to look at, and if you can get into a rhythm of sneaking and stabbing through the levels the fluidity is very satisfying. Nabbing it for nothing sounds like a fine deal to me.
Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers expansion will launch on July 2nd, Square Enix have announced in a keynote at the Paris fan-festival.
Game director and producer Naoki Yoshida also spoke about many new details, including announcing a crossover raid that will draw on the world of Nier: Automata, called YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse.
A new trailer, helpfully grabbed by YouTuber Giuseppe’s Gaming, teases many of the expansion’s additions, including story beats and the new job class, known as gunbreaker:
