Frictional Games’ Dev On Alien: Isolation: “Game Suffers From Two Major Horror Design Issues”
SEGA and IGN have recently released a video showing the reactions of IGN’s journalists while playing the game. Naturally, this video went viral and Frictional Games’ Thomas Grip felt the need to mention a couple of things about this upcoming horror title. After all, Frictional Games was behind the amazing Amnesia game – and is currently working on SOMA – so who better than Thomas to comment on that recent footage? Continue reading
Millennium: A New Hope – Old-School JRPG – Hits Steam
JRPG fans, here is something for you today. Aldorlea announced today that its popular, award-winning RPG series ‘Millennium’ has hit Steam, as Episode 1 (‘A New Hope’) in the 5-game saga finally saw a release on Friday – with a special 20% discount for a week. Continue reading
Tom Clancy’s The Division – Three New Screenshots Released
Ubisoft has released three new screenshots for The Division. These new images show great visuals, so it will be interesting to see whether the French company will be able to deliver. The Division is planned for a 2014 release but I’m pretty sure that it will get delayed to 2015. Enjoy! Continue reading
Unreal Engine 4 – Elemental Tech Demo Now Available For Download, 8K Screenshots Look Great
We’ve been getting a lot of emails about the availability of the Elemental Tech Demo. Which is a bit surprising as there was a link in our previous UE4 story (featuring all the tech demos released till now). But anyway, time for a proper post, focusing exclusively on the Elemental Tech Demo. Continue reading
Off-Screen Gameplay Footage From Namco Bandai’s Upcoming F2P Brawler, Rise of Incarnates
During the GGD 2014 Las Vegas event, VGBR captured and shared some gameplay footage from Namco Bandai’s upcoming Rise of Incarnates. Rise of Incarnates is being developed by the teams behind Tekken, SoulCalibur, and Gundam Extreme VS and features ground-breaking 2 vs. 2 gameplay, a multitude of characters and roles, and battlegrounds throughout shattered yet accurately rendered real-world cityscapes. Kudos to our reader ‘CoolingGibbon’ for informing us. Enjoy! Continue reading
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – “Good Game” Documentary Airs Tomorrow
Devolver Digital announced that Twitch TV is running a live airing of the StarCraft 2 documentary “Good Game” on Tuesday, April 29th at 10AM PDT / 1PM EDT / 1700 CET. The documentary will be followed directly by a live chat room Q&A with director Mary Ratliff and various casts and personalities from film. Continue reading
The Lighthouse Customer: The Age of Decadence
By Christopher Livingston on April 28th, 2014 at 9:00 pm.
Each Monday, Chris Livingston visits an early access game and reports back with stories about whatever he finds inside. This week, isometric turn-based RPG combat (and attempting to avoid it) in The Age of Decadence.
Imagine walking out of a store and discovering that not only have you been pickpocketed while shopping, but the expensive item you bought is actually a worthless trinket. When you complain to a city guard, he suspects you’re the real thief, and when a friendly citizen offers to help, you soon find yourself in an alley surrounded by armed thugs. You’ve been ripped off, robbed, accused, mislead, and stabbed to death, all in a single afternoon. Welcome to The Age of Decadence! A quote from the tutorial seems fitting: “Remember to save, you are going to die soon.”
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Roguelike-like FPS Rogue Shooter Blasts Out With A Demo
By Alice O'Connor on April 28th, 2014 at 4:00 pm.
The roguelike-like spirit has meandered across video games history for a few years now, turning old things new with a little roguelike RPG kick, and now it’s hit the unusual host of wonky ’90s shareware FPSs. Rogue Shooter: The FPS Roguelike launched last Friday, looking and sounding like something from the dark corners of a 1996 cover disc but pleasing with procedural generation and oodles of items and stats crafting and all that.
A hearty launch discount brings it down to £3.49 on Steam and a demo’s that-a-way too.
How Health Troubles And Obamacare Gave Life To Last Life
By Nathan Grayson on April 28th, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
Last Life is an exceedingly promising looking cyberpunk noir adventure game being published by Double Fine. As is often the case with these things, you’re solving a murder. As is significantly less often the case with these things, it’s your own. The game’s utopian, dystopian, MarsTopian future posits that humans have figured out how to 3D print new bodies, thus making The End significantly less… final. It’s an interesting conceit for a mystery plot, but it turns out that the rabbit hole runs much deeper for creator Sam Farmer. An abiding love for transhumanism practically bleeds out of him, and there’s a very good reason for this: he’s been struggling with a chronic disease for most of his life. His health issues are always right behind him, lunging to drag him down, hold him back. But this life doesn’t offer do-overs, so he’s done holding back.
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