Monday news, part two:
Cloudpunk looks amazing in first-person mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/cloudpunk-looks-amazing-in-first-person-mode/
Cloudpunk's aggressively neon city is one of the best-looking videogame locales I've hung around in this year. Developer Ion Lands works magic with voxels, creating a place that I'd hate to live in but love to gawk at. And thanks to the upcoming first-person camera, I'll be able to gawk a lot more effectively.
Summer Game Fest joins with Day of the Devs for two more events
https://www.pcgamer.com/summer-game-fest-joins-with-day-of-the-devs-for-two-more-events/
Day of the Devs is an annual festival hosted by Double Fine Studios and iam8bit, free and open to all, where fans can meet up with indie developers, hang out, and try their upcoming games. Obviously, that sort of thing isn't going to fly this year, and so it's being rolled into the Summer Game Fest, Geoff Keighley's multi-month online extravaganza of extrava-gaming.
Manchester United sues Football Manager over trademark infringement and mod support
https://www.pcgamer.com/manchester-united-sues-football-manager-over-trademark-infringement-and-mod-support/
Football Manager is, in North America at least, a relatively niche management simulation of the sport that likes to call itself The Beautiful Game. In much of the rest of the world it is one the most beloved consistently high scoring series on PC: Aside from a blip in 2015, you won't find a sub-80 review score through a decade's worth of games.
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Alas, that remarkable run of reviews was not enough to protect the game from the wrath of Manchester United, the giant English Premier League team (and brand licensing behemoth) that has filed a lawsuit against Sega and Sports Interactive for infringing on its trademark. As reported by The Guardian, the issue is that the game references Manchester United, but does so without using its official crest, "replacing the club crest with a simplified red and white striped logo" instead.
Wasteland 3 video showcases psychos, Gippers, and consequences of bad decisions
https://www.pcgamer.com/wasteland-3-video-showcases-psychos-gippers-and-consequences-of-bad-decisions/
I thought Wasteland 3 looked very promising when I checked out a preview build back in March, but it was a very small slice of the overall game. It revealed how and why I ended up in Colorado, and introduced the Patriarch and the basics of city politics, but the focus was primarily mechanical: combat, character creation, NPC interactions, and that sort of thing.
A new behind-the-scenes video released today digs deeper into what I think are the more important aspects of the game, which is to say the story and some of the characters you'll experience as you roam through the snowy mountains of the Centennial State.
Risk of Rain 2 is pushed back into August
https://www.pcgamer.com/risk-of-rain-2-is-pushed-back-into-august/
Risk of Rain 2, based on the development roadmap released in April 2019, was expected to go from Early Access to full release in the spring of this year. According to a quick Google search, spring 2020 is going to come to an end in just under a month—and today, developer Hopoo Games announced that the planned launch isn't going to happen on time.
Total War: Warhammer 2 now has a dabbing goblin named Niblet
https://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-warhammer-2-now-has-a-dabbing-goblin-named-niblet/
Step aside, Henry Cavill, Warhammer 2's latest DLC has a real star now: Niblet. Niblet is a goblin. He is not a goblin leader, he's more like the hype-man, standard-bearer, and charioteer for notably fat goblin Grom the Paunch. He's beloved by all right-thinking fans of Warhammer Fantasy, so much so that an entire color of Games Workshop's miniatures paint line is named after him. (Niblet's great feat, for the record, was getting sat on by Grom the Paunch and surviving.)
Assassin's Creed Valhalla will have Viking rap battles
https://www.pcgamer.com/assassins-creed-valhalla-will-have-viking-rap-battles/
The Vikings had all kinds of cool cultural traditions, from democratic councils and formal duelling rites to one of the earliest known forms of what we'd now call the rap battle: Flyting. See, the Vikings had rhyming insult-fights attested to in both historical record, myth, and semi-historical records like the Icelandic Sagas. There are flytings between the gods Odin and Thor, for example, or between Loki and literally every other god because nobody really likes Loki very much. (If you're like me, you know this practice from the old english word flite via Beowulf.)
Warframe: The Deadlock Protocol will soon revamp the game's oldest content
https://www.pcgamer.com/warframe-the-deadlock-protocol-will-soon-to-revamp-the-games-oldest-content/
Warframe's next update is The Deadlock Protocol, and is due to release in the next two weeks—most likely the week of June 5th. The developers' latest update also brings insight into Protea, the neato new flipping and spinning frame that'll release alongside The Deadlock Protocol.
Heartwarming adventure game Rakuen has an animated series DLC
https://www.pcgamer.com/heartwarming-adventure-game-rakuen-has-an-animated-series-dlc/
Rakuen is an adventure game developed by Laura Shigihara, who composed music for Plants vs. Zombies, To the Moon, and other games. It's both adorable and creepy, with as many layers as one of its sassy talking onion people.
To celebrate the third anniversary of Rakuen, the animated series first announced in 2018 is finally arriving.
The Wholesome Direct stream will show off 50+ indie games
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-wholesome-direct-stream-will-show-off-50-indie-games-on-may-26th/
If you enjoy a warm and fuzzy gaming experience then folks, do I have a thing for you. Wholesome Direct will be a presentation from the collective that is Wholesome Games. It's coming this Tuesday, May 26th at 1PM ET. (That's perfect dinner viewing hours for you Brits, or a morning delight for the US West Coast.)
Drox Operative 2 trailer shows off the sci-fi action RPG
https://www.pcgamer.com/drox-operative-2-trailer-shows-off-the-sci-fi-action-rpg/
I told you earlier this month that Drox Operative 2 was a thing, and now it's a thing with a pretty exciting trailer, full of lasers and exploding ships and rock music and galactic conquest, as you explore a region of space that's being 4X'd by competing alien empires.
Family Man, the Breaking Bad-like blocky RPG, is out now
https://www.pcgamer.com/family-man-the-breaking-bad-like-blocky-rpg-is-out-now/
Choices in RPGs tend to have far-reaching consequences, but what if your decisions hit a little closer to home? That's the premise of Family Man, a blocky RPG where your choices will affect your family and town, for good or ill, as you try to rustle up enough cash to pay back the mob.
Twin-stick roguelite I, Dracula: Genesis hits early access
https://www.pcgamer.com/twin-stick-roguelite-i-dracula-genesis-hits-early-access/
If the Bitmap Brothers had made Enter the Gungeon or Nuclear Throne, it would look something like I, Dracula: Genesis, an isometric, twin-stick, roguelite shooter that's just launched in Steam Early Access. There's a fun, tantalising demo on Game Jolt (though be warned that it's time-limited, and fairly brief).
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