One Way Heroics is a pretty neat game. You should all go and buy it, it's real cheap.
Way to Singularity flies you into a blackhole
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Block holes, the gravity well left behind by a dead star, draw into them everything from dust particles, to light, to milkshake. Under immense force a black hole will crush those particles down into super dense molecules. Picture the densest, darkest brownie you’ve ever eaten - the kind with big chocolate chunks in it - that’s nothing like a black hole but it’s hardly wasted time to think about a chocolate brownie.
Way to Singularity puts you in the pilots of a ship aiming right for the centre of such an entity (a black hole, not a brownie), and it’s great fun. It’s free, too.
Elder Scrolls Online to be lovingly cluttered with more items
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When we sat down to play Elder Scrolls Online, Nick, Jeremy, and I all separately came to the conclusion that there wasn’t enough stuff. We didn’t care what it was - plates, butter knives, blank bits of paper - we wanted more of it. This is an MMO based on games like Morrowind and Skyrim, after all, the kings of game worlds filled with detritus.
Zenimax Online Studio have answered. In the near future we’ll see the world populated by things. There are a great many other changes coming, too.
20,000 Leagues Above the Sky takes piracy to the islands floating over the seven seas
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Floating islands, steampunk airships, pirates. 20,000 Leagues Above the Sky has tapped straight into the Davy Jones’ Locker that is my heart. Taking nods from Baldur’s Gate, Firefly, and Studio Ghibli, the game has you fly between different floating skyports, picking up odd jobs and brigands, all the while learning about the strange world you inhabit.
Colour me excited: Perlinoid is a puzzle game based on palette
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This won’t be a game for the colourblind. Perlinoid’s a game about blending and separating colours to advance through alien environments. We’ve only a short video of in-game footage to work from but in 30 seconds we get a pretty good idea of the puzzles and scope this mechanic has.
Watch it and prepare to have your brain scratched.
Proven Lands sets its sandbox world in the golden age of sci fi
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Let me just quote the developer here to see if you’re interested - separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak - “Starting with a backdrop of endless, procedurally generated terrain, Proven Lands combines 3D, science fiction, survival, sandbox, roguelike and RPG elements with an AI-driven meta game - like a game master - and on top of all that: modding!”
Still here? Good, because Proven Lands looks freakin’ awesome.
Age of Empires II: The Forgotten discovers a whole new free campaign: El Dorado
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Microsoft are continuing to support the recent HD rerelease of Age of Empires II by giving a free campaign to all owners of the The Forgotten expansion. El Dorado tells the story of Francisco Orellana and Gonzalo Pizarro in their search for the lost city of gold. It’s made up of four new missions and a load of historical backstory for interested players.
THIEF – New Patch Comes With Performance Improvements & Crash Fixes
EIDOS Montreal and Nixxes Software have released a new patch for THIEF, featuring various performance improvements and crash fixes. As always, this update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client. You can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading
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