Ikaruga Is Now Available On Steam
Great news for shoot ‘em up fans as Ikaruga has just been released on Steam. Ikaruga is a vertical shoot ‘em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay, in which players can switch the ship’s polarity and “get hit and absorb” enemy bullets. Continue reading
Total War: Rome II Beasts of War DLC introduces throwing bees, snakes, scorpions
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I can never quite muster the necessary enthusiasm for giant robots sometimes required for PC gaming, and for that I blame Beast Wars: Transformers - the Canadian CGI spinoff that I watched after school in the ‘90s. In that, the robots became birds and bears, and so Optimus Prime became Optimus Primal, y’see? Very clever stuff.
This is not a tie-in to that - though you can’t rule such things out while Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior exists. Rather, it’s an only marginally less ridiculous unit pack that brings ranged scorpion hurling to Total War: Rome II.
It Came: From The Depths
By Nathan Grayson on February 19th, 2014 at 12:00 pm.
From The Depths certainly looks ambitious. I’ll give it that. It’s a naval first-person mermaidurer where you build all of your own vehicles and then fly/sail/submarine/hot air balloon them into battle. Oh, and it’s voxel-based, naturally, so expect mighty capital ships that look like they were assembled by children who’ve yet to learn their capital letters. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it has kind of become The Style Of The Time. To be frank, I’m more worried about how all sorts of disparate elements – detailed physics, a random world, construction of every vehicle you use, and “dozens” of co-op and competitive modes – will come together. Freeform building tends make things a bit tough to balance, after all, and there are so many things here. But then, perhaps that’s the point.
What’s Yours Is Charity’s: Humble Indie Bundle 11
By Nathan Grayson on February 19th, 2014 at 11:00 am.
Another Humble Indie Bundle? What a strange turn of events. I thought for sure that Humble was going to suddenly and inexplicably shut down their massively successful enterprise this time around. I mean, they’re on Humble Indie Bundle 11 now. What a gross number. Ten – nay, X – was so svelte, so confident. It plucked the olive from life’s martini glass just so, and we all just wanted its gaze to fall on us for a single precious second. So seriously, what’s even the point of having more Humble Bundles? Oh, right: amazing games and charity and stuff. This time around, the star-studded lineup includes Guacamelee, Monaco, Antichamber, and my personal favorite puzzler of 2013, The Swapper.
Square Enix "definitely interested" in bringing future Final Fantasy games to PC
Square Enix is interested in bringing future Final Fantasy games to the PC, it's said.
While MMO Final Fantasy games Final Fantasy 11 and Final Fantasy 14 are available on PC, none of the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy of games are, and Final Fantasy 15 is confirmed for release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One only.
It's a series whose heritage is on console, but according to Final Fantasy producer Yoshinori Kitase, that may change.
"Let's not forget, when we developed the Final Fantasy 13 series, all three titles, at the early stages of development we were working on PC," Kitase told Eurogamer.
"Then we had to port it to the consoles. As far as the technology is concerned, it would have been possible for us to make a PC version, but we decided against it for two reasons: we looked at the market situation and we didn't think it would be a good idea, and also it would have involved lots of complex issues like security. So we decided not to do it this time around.
"But we see potential in it and there are lots of regions and countries where PC is very strong. So in terms of our hope of being able to deliver our games to every single country in the world and to as many gamers as possible, yes, we would definitely be interested in pursuing that route in the future."
Square Enix has recently released some of the Final Fantasy games on Steam, including Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8. Kitase said these titles had enjoyed success, making more launches on Valve's enormously successful digital platform likely.
"Final Fantasy 7 and 8 are now available on PC and they've been proving quite popular," he said. "It's an early stage for us. We haven't got an awful lot of experience in this field. So when we have more know-how and experience in this market we would be very interested."
In June last year Square Enix unveiled Final Fantasy 15 for PS4 and Xbox One, in development at the company's First Production Department and under the guidance of producer Shinji Hashimoto, director and character designer Tetsuya Nomura and co-director Hajime Tabata. Kingdom Hearts composer Yoko Shimomura is also working on the game.
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