Dawn of War III WAAAGH!s are the best WAAAGHs!

It’s still early days for me in Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War 3 [official site] , and, truth be told, I’m still not entirely sure what to make of it. It’s tricksy beast, a little higher-maintenance than I’m used to from this series, with less attachment to any individual squad/unit, but the pay-off for that is far vaster armies and a more spectular sense of Only War than ever before.

The stand-out element for me so far, though, is the Ork Waaagh! Dem boyz really go to town when they hear the call to war.
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Create religion for animals in the grindark Agatha Knife

A nine-year-old insomniac founds a new religion to convince animals that being eaten is the way to salvation and happiness in Agatha Knife [official site], an adventure game released yesterday. It’s the follow-up to MechaNika, a 2015 game about a child building her own mech – which our John quite enjoyed until its anticlimatic ending. Agatha Knife is set in the same ‘Psychotic Adventures’ world as MechaNika, and Spanish studio Mango Protocol looks to be continuing with that same cheery grim tone. (Note: I hereby coin the term ‘grindark’.) Peep this trailer: … [visit site to read more]

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Wot I Think: Under Leaves

Sometimes tiny is just enough. Isn’t that a lovely thought? But more often it’s not quite enough, because it’s tiny. Under Leaves [official site] is a very pretty, very tiny little hidden objects game, and it’s not quite enough. … [visit site to read more]

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Tilt Brush adds Sketches for non-VR browsing

Tilt Brush [official site] was, hands down, one of the best things in VR last year, but given the VR platform means a smaller potential player-base it’s got that challenge of “How do I share any of this cool stuff with people not wearing VR headsets?” That’s where the new Sketches gallery comes in, letting you peer at people’s creations using a regular browser. … [visit site to read more]

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The Flare Path: Maghrebian Musings

Graviteam’s reputation for martial eccentricity is under threat. Their next standalone dual-layer wargame isn’t set in a cobwebby corner of the Eastern Front. It doesn’t simulate an operation in the Bangladesh Liberation War or the Western Sahara Conflict. Manned exclusively by German and US personnel, the monikered-with-a-mallet Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943 (out on Monday, price TBA) has at its hub an operation that is almost a household name compared with the likes of Operations Zvesda and Hooper. … [visit site to read more]

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Echolocation horror Perception coming in May

Perception [official site], the first-person spookhouse horror starring a woman who sees with Daredevil-style echolocation, now has a release date: May 30th. We’ll get to explore an abandoned mansion, investigating something spooky which has lurked for generations, by making noises which send out soundwaves we can magically convert to eerie images. Oh, and of course the horrors haunting the mansion are attracted to sound. Great. Good. Lovely. See in this trailer: … [visit site to read more]

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Subnautica update sounds the fire alarm

Ooooh! A Subnautica [official site] update! This one is called Silent Running and yet the trailer is VERY LOUD. I think the silent bit only applies to the Cyclops (a big underwater craft) which you can now run silently if you want to sneak around. Sneaking is now important because of the underwater jerks trying to munch on your Cyclops. That sounded wrong. Let’s move on and watch the video: … [visit site to read more]

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