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Andrew Mayfield

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AK's VS Full Plate VS Queue Times
Feb 24 2024
AK's VS Full Plate VS Queue Times
Helldivers 2 - The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter. - Arrowhead Game Studios (Steam, PS5, Available now) Video game consoles are doomed… right? - Article by GamesIndustry.biz New Platforms, New Players: Four Fan-Favorite Xbox Games Coming to Nintendo Switch and Sony Platforms - Article by Xbox Wire Last Epoch - Uncover the Past, Reforge the Future. Ascend into one of 15 mastery classes and explore dangerous dungeons, hunt epic loot, craft legendary weapons, and wield the power of over a hundred transformative skill trees. Last Epoch is being developed by a team of passionate Action RPG enthusiasts. - Eleventh Hour Games (Steam, Available now) Kingmakers - Go back in time to a war-torn medieval era with a vast arsenal of modern weapons, change the course of history, and save the future in this epic action/strategy sandbox. Build your kingdom, grab a gun, and lead an army of thousands into massive, real-time simulated battles — solo or in co-op. - Redemption Road Games (Steam, TBA 2024) Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth - FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is the highly anticipated new story in the FINAL FANTASY VII remake project, a reimagining of the iconic original game into three standalone titles by its original creators. In this game, players will enjoy various new elements as the story unfolds, culminating in the party’s journey to “The Forgotten Capital” from the original FINAL FANTASY VII. - Square Enix (PS5, February 29th 2024)
Helldivers 2, and the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Demo #1
Feb 16 2024
Helldivers 2, and the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Demo #1
This week we played Helldivers 2 and the first of two demos for one of the worst named video games of all time - Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth! Then we dive into the unethical way the military is influencing your kids. Abiotic factor takes us back to the heyday of the Half-Life era, and Larian reminds us they made a great game and continue to make it greater. Lastly we discuss Millenia, a game that might give Civ a run for it’s money! Helldivers 2 - The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter. - Arrowhead Game Studios (Steam, PS5, available now) The US military is embedded in the gaming world. Its target: teen recruits - Article by The Guardian Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth - FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is the highly anticipated new story in the FINAL FANTASY VII remake project, a reimagining of the iconic original game into three standalone titles by its original creators. In this game, players will enjoy various new elements as the story unfolds, culminating in the party’s journey to “The Forgotten Capital” from the original FINAL FANTASY VII. - (PS5, Feb 29th 2024) Abiotic Factor - Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats. - Deep Field Games (Steam, May 2nd 2024) Everything We Know About Baldur’s Gate 3’s Sixth Big Patch - Article by Kotaku Millennia - Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures. - C Prompt Games (Steam, Coming Soon)
WHAT ARE THESE GAMES!? STEAM NEXT FEST FEBRUARY 2024!
Feb 10 2024
WHAT ARE THESE GAMES!? STEAM NEXT FEST FEBRUARY 2024!
Backrooms - The Backrooms is an Online Co-Op experience with friends, dynamic levels, and proximity voice chat. Every second week new level will be added! Or CREATE your own levels with the in-game level editor! Face the unknown together, communicating strategically in this immersive and chilling adventure. - Found Footage Studios (Steam, March 2024) Star Trucker - Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre. - Monster and Monster (Steam, TBA 2024) Dungeonborne - Dungeonborne is an immersive first-person PvPvE dungeon crawler. Venture solo or join forces with trusted companions to hunt for treasure, explore ominous dungeons, and battle terrifying monsters and cunning adversaries. Escape before succumbing to darkness and greed. - Mithril Interactive (Steam, TBA) Echo Point Nova - Grappling hook. Hoverboard. Guns. Featuring singleplayer and online co-op. By the creators of Severed Steel. - Greylock Studio (Steam, TBA 2024) Lightyear Frontier - Lightyear Frontier is a peaceful open-world farming adventure on a planet at the far edge of the galaxy. Climb into your versatile mech and start your new home on a distant planet with up to 3 friends as you farm alien crops, build your own homestead, and explore the untamed wilderness of the world. - FRAME BREAK, Amplifier Studios (Steam, March 19 2024) Rotwood - Rotwood is a 1-4 player hack-and-slash dungeon crawler by the makers of Don't Starve and Mark of the Ninja. Battle corrupted beasts, gather what remains, and forge a safe haven with your friends. - Klei Entertainment (Steam, TBA) Layoffs are sucking the joy out of video games | This week's gaming news - Article by Engadget The Console Wars Are Over. Some Influencers Won’t Let Them Go - Article by WIRED SAG-AFTRA expands its indie game performer contract - Article by GAMES hub
CES 2024, Pacific Drive, and AI vs Gamers
Jan 12 2024
CES 2024, Pacific Drive, and AI vs Gamers
We’ve got new handhelds, new gpus, new broken records, and some broken hearts from those working in the gaming industry. On this episode of Video Game Tango a 13 year old has BEATEN Tetris for the first time! Then, an estimated 2400 people have been laid off in the gaming industry already this year including nearly 35% of Twitch staff. Another series of handheld announcements have been made including MSI’s “The Claw” and a new SteamOS-fueled Ayaneo Next-Lite! Then we discuss upcoming indie developed “Pacific Drive”, a game we have been keeping a close eye on for some time is getting early reviews, and seems like it might be quite a standout release title for Ironwood Studios! Sag-Aftra is making some hard decisions in the face of AI competition in the gaming space, and NVidia have announced a new lineup of 4000 series RTX graphics cards! Are they going to be worth your hard-earned dollar? Special thanks to @aGameScout for their coverage of Tetris being beaten by 13 year old “Blue Scuti” Willis, and @Splattercatgaming for his early footage of Pacific Drive! https://www.youtube.com/@aGameScout https://www.youtube.com/@Splattercatgaming 11 Days Into 2024 And 2700+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced - Article by Kotaku MSI unveils new handheld PC device, the Claw - Article by GamesIndustry.biz Pacific Drive - Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive. - Ironwood Studios (Steam, PS5 releases Feb 22nd 2024) Ayaneo announces the Next Lite, the first non-Valve handheld PC with SteamOS preinstalled - Article by PCGamer SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games - Article by Variety Why Video Game Voice Actors Don’t Love The New SAG-AFTRA Deal - Article by Kotaku Nvidia Announces RTX 40 Super Series At CES 2024 With The 80-Class Seeing A Price Drop - Article by MMORPG NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super, 4070 Ti Super, & 4070 Super Official Specs, Price, & Release Dates - Video by Gamers Nexus
The Game Awards 2023
Dec 15 2023
The Game Awards 2023
It’s that time of year again for Geoff Keighley to wave his magic Wiimote and give us the gift of new game trailers to drool over for the next few months! Nick and Josh have chosen a couple games showcased during the announcements to discuss at length, and Andy drops a few honorable mentions! Nick’s picks: No Rest for the Wicked - From Moon Studios, the award-winning developers of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps comes No Rest for the Wicked, a visceral, precision Action RPG set to reinvent the genre. - Moon Studios (Steam, Xbox, PS5, TBA) Light No Fire - A game about adventure, building, survival and exploration together. Set on a fantasy planet the size of Earth. - Hello Games (Steam, TBA) Josh’s picks: Marvel’s Blade - In Marvel’s Blade, Eric Brooks is the legendary Daywalker, half-man, half-vampire torn between the warm society of the living and the rushing power of the undead. From Bethesda and Arkane Lyon, the studio that brought you Dishonored and “DEATHLOOP”, Marvel’s Blade is a mature, single-player, third-person game set in the heart of Paris, now in development in collaboration with Marvel Games. - Arkane Studios (PC, Xbox, TBA) EXODUS - EXODUS was announced at The Game Awards 2023 and is an epic new sci-fi action-adventure role-playing game franchise developed by the team at Archetype Entertainment. Produced by Blur Studio. BECOME THE TRAVELER. - Archetype Entertainment (PC, Xbox, PS5) Honorable mentions: Sega announced it’s working on at least 5 remakes, possibly more, and possibly new IP! We aren’t holding our breath on that last one, but here’s the trailer which contains Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage! Hideo Kojima has announced a new multi-media/new media horror project he’s been cooking up with genre enthusiast Jordan Peele! Little is known about the project, but there’s likely hints and spoilers for the upcoming game hidden in the trailer as usual! Let us know if you catch anything! Here’s the Trailer! Sony Santa Monica hit us over the head with a brand new DLC, free to owners of the game! This one is called God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla. More God of War is always good God of War isn’t it? Oh yeah, and it’s out already by the time you’re reading this! Embark Studios pulled a fast one on us, and dropped THE FINALS Season 1 during The Game Awards! Jump in now, free on your platform of choice! A link to the Steam version is here. From the creators of the humble smash hit Untitled Goose Game, comes a new game Big Walk. House House describes the game as a “Cooperative Online Walker-Talker” Set out with your friends through a wide-open world full of challenges, puzzles, and discoveries. You’ll need to work together to find your way around, stay in contact using an assortment of tools and toys, and figure out new ways to communicate when you suddenly find yourself speechless. Adventuring aside, there’s plenty of time to just hang out. Sit and watch the sunset, or steal your friend’s binoculars and kick them into the ocean. Spending time with friends is the best part of a big walk. A link to the Steam version is here. Lightspeed Studios showed off their project LAST SENTINEL. Set in dystopian Tokyo, this is an open-world action game with a seriously cool trailer. While we don’t know much about the game, and haven’t seen any gameplay, the trailer sure does look good! What would any game show be without a few Warhammer 40k games? How about the long-awaited Space Marine 2? The game looks awesome from what we’ve seen so far, and if the first game is any indicator, we’ll be romping around in powersuits draining the blood of our foes in religious fervor come Sept, 9th 2024!  Mecha Break is another in a series of new mech games we’ve been seeing lately. It looks faster-paced than Armored Core IV: Fires of Rubicon, and may be exactly what some mecha lovers need! There was plenty more shown at The Game Awards this year! If you weren’t able to catch it live, and would like to see the whole show in it’s entirety it’s available here! Happy gaming everyone! #thegameawards #tga2023 #gameoftheyear
Grand Theft Auto 6, The Zelda Movie, and Blizzcon 2023!
Nov 10 2023
Grand Theft Auto 6, The Zelda Movie, and Blizzcon 2023!
Who knew that being gone for a week would mean that all of the world's biggest gaming announcements were going to happen! This week we’ve got new details on Grand Theft Auto 6, a new Legend of Zelda live action movie announced by Nintendo themselves, Against the Storm, Caves of Qud, and more info from Blizzcon than you can shake a stick at!   Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer Arriving in December - Article by IGN Grand Theft Auto 6: All the news we’ve heard about Rockstar’s next game - Article by Polygon Nintendo announces a live-action film based on its hit video game 'The Legend of Zelda' - Article by Eurogamer Against the Storm - A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors. - Eremite Games (Steam, available now) Caves of Qud - Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. - Freehold Games (Steam, available now in Early Access) Blizzcon 2023 Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred will introduce a never-before-seen class to the Diablo franchise. It takes place in Hahantu, an area from Diablo 2, and continues Mephisto’s story. Vessel of Hatred is poised to launch Fall 2024 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHuaCwmx-Rg Overwatch 2: Blizzard announced a new hero Mauga who is the first Samoan hero to debut in Overwatch! Mauga features a kit that is designed to bash through the front lines and brawl his opponents in close-quarter combat, by wielding two powerful Chainguns that can either be fired individually or in unison. Ignite enemies with his Incendiary Chaingun “Gunny” to burn them when they take enough damage, then finish them with a critical hit from his Volatile Chaingun “Cha-Cha.” Paired with his Berserker Passive, which grants Mauga temporary health whenever he deals critical damage, he’s a mountain on the battlefield. Mauga’s not just a leading star—he also brings a host of new abilities to support his team as well. Mauga can break his way through the front lines with Overrun, a charging ability that cannot be stopped by any crowd control abilities, and stomps into opponents dealing a powerful knockback. When the fight gets intense for his team, he has Cardiac Overdrive to engage both of his hearts and create an aura that reduces incoming damage, allowing allies to heal themselves while dealing damage. Finally, when he really wants to tango up close with his foes, Mauga can unleash Cage Fight, his ultimate ability. Cage Fight traps nearby opponents in a cylindrical fighting ring. This barrier blocks enemy incoming damage or healing from the outside, forcing those trapped inside to face Mauga with Gunny, Cha Cha, and the barrage of infinite ammunition. If you can’t take him down quickly, the last thing you might see is his charming smile. Mauga will officially become available to play at the start of season 8 which starts 12/5/2023 Mauga Origin Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCLjZDkpBoY Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQfRHycUsmQ Hearthstone: Showdown in the Badlands: Deep in the heart of the Badlands, the Bloodrock Mining Company has struck gold! Or, rather, something even better: Azerite. Now they’re double-timing their mining, bleeding the land dry and putting everyone in the Badlands at risk. Mysterious heroes came on horseback to set the town right, but the corrupt Sheriff Barrelbrim’s stubborn as his hat is tall. It’s high time for high noon in this Showdown in the Badlands! New keyword “Quickdraw” - In the Badlands, being quick on the draw might just save your hide. Cards with the Quickdraw keyword get a special effect on the turn they are added to your hand. Shoot cards off as soon as you draw them, or plan around your Quickdraws with bounce and generation effects! New keyword “Excavate” - There’s treasure in them there hills! Cards with the Excavate keyword get your treasures from the Azerite mine. Each time you Excavate, you dig deeper and find rarer treasures! Sketchy Townsfolk - The entire town is digging deeper and deeper into the mines, looking for Azerite treasures. Townsfolk classes have extra Excavate synergies and a unique reward for their Excavations! The corrupt Sheriff Barrelbrim’s behind the operation, and he doesn’t care what damage they do to the Badlands... or what they might awaken. Heroic Outlaws - Sometimes, it takes an outlaw’s intervention for folks to start straight-shootin'. Some classes brought an outlaw to the Showdown in the Badlands. These lone gunslingers have extra effects if there are no duplicates in your deck. So, what do you say, are you feeling lucky? Hearthstone: Showdown in the Badlands is available to play on 11/14/2023 Hearthstone What’s Next Panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcyDB4pBTHQ Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5___jYm6vs Warcraft Rumble: Warcraft® Rumble™ is a mobile action strategy game set within the Warcraft universe where collectible Minis come to life to battle in frantic melee skirmishes. Play in multiple modes, including the single player campaign, going head-to-head in epic PvP battles, and more. Experience the true meaning of joyful chaos! Deploy: Use gold reserves to deploy your Minis strategically on the battlefield. Gain additional gold passively over time, by mining, or finding treasure chests. Capture: Capture objectives like Guard Towers and Meeting Stones, then use them to deploy your Minis closer to the objective. Controlling the map is key to victory! Strategize: Different Mini abilities give you an advantage in combat. Flying troops are strong against melee troops. Siege troops deal additional damage to Guard Towers, and so on. Master your Minis’ abilities to succeed and learn Talents to make them even more powerful! Conquer: Your Minis will march towards enemy Leaders and attempt to take them down. Support your deployed Troops with powerful Spells and direct them to victory. There are 5 factions: Alliance, Horde, Beast, Blackrock, and Undead. Control heroes from Warcraft lore like Tirion Fordring, Grommash Hellscream, Hogger, General Drakkisath, and Baron Rivendare! Blizzard has also made the 3D blueprints available for all their Mini avatars for free, so you can 3D print them for just the cost of 3D printing supplies! Warcraft Rumble is available to play now on Android and iOS! Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgOreJl6BJQ World of Warcraft World of Warcraft Classic: Season of Discovery: Those hoping for a Classic+ are seemingly getting what they’ve asked for! The announcement of Season of Discovery for WoW Classic! In Season of Discovery, players will discover new secrets by scouring Azeroth to find class-altering abilities. Tanking Warlocks, Mage healers, and more will be possible. The Season will launch with an initial level cap of 25, and upon reaching max level, players will be met with a new level-25 endgame! Discover a 10-player Blackfathom Deeps raid with new and reimagined bosses, mechanics, and rewards. Not long after, the level cap will be increased by a few levels, bringing even more endgame content. As players progress through Season of Discovery, they will find class-altering abilities in the form of Runes. These runes will alter spells, or grant new abilities that allow classes to do things they haven’t before, or to augment their current abilities and spells to do something entirely different! This even includes Runes that are inspired by later expansions, granting classes abilities that have never been seen in earlier iterations of World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft Classic: Season of Discovery will launch 11/30/23 WoW Classic: What’s Next Panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1rcs9mmf-s&t=1998s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic: It’s the Cataclysm all over again…But different, but same. Same but different. If Classic Wrath of the Lich King is any indicator, Cataclysm might have a bright future ahead of it! Cataclysm Classic comes with an improved leveling experience, a new dungeon difficulty, account-wide pets and transmogs, a streamlined auction house, and a level cap of 85! World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic will launch on or before 8/21/2024 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XT7Q9Am8yM World of Warcraft: The Worldsoul Saga: Chris Metzen delighted fans of World of Warcraft with an announcement of not ONE, but THREE new expansions for the retail version of World of Warcraft! Starting with the subterranean expansion The War Within, which takes us deeper into Azeroth than ever before! This expansion includes new zones Azj-kahet, Isle of Dorn, The Ringing Deeps, and Hallowfall, new dungeons, raids, a new battleground, and a new Allied race playable to both the Alliance and the Horde: The Earthen Dwarves. Along with the new zones to explore, it also comes with all new Hero Talents, which is a separate talent system, and a new treasure hunting activity called Delves, which can be played both solo and with a group to acquire new items and gear. Similar to dungeons, Delves will often contain formidable foes, but unlike dungeons, they will also contain puzzles of varying difficulty, and possibly more that has not been announced. And to wrap it all up, a new feature known as War Bands has also been announced. War Bands share a bank, reputation gains and more! The Worldsoul Saga also has 2 additional expansions titled Midnight, and The Last Titan respectively. Not much was announced about these two expansions, other than the World of Warcraft team is dedicated to bringing out all 3 of these expansions in a much quicker cadence than we’ve seen expansion launches in the past. This isn’t too surprising though, as Final Fantasy 14 has done this in the past, and if Blizzard is good at anything, it’s copying good ideas. The War Within expansion will launch on or before 12/31/2024 The War Within Features Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSvLkzRt9fc The War Within: What’s next Panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMDQzaRsVqc The War Within Deep Dive Panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqZ7LSGjSU Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c55uHFbfeaw
Getting Slim and Slippery
Oct 28 2023
Getting Slim and Slippery
XBOX Partner Preview shows us some games to look forward to, Nick shows us some games we can play now, and Josh and I talk about nerdy numbers and specs and whatnot! XBOX Partner Preview - XBOX wants to put the spotlight on it’s 3rd party developers, feeling they haven’t shared much of the limelight since the announcement to acquire Activision Blizzard King. So let’s not forget that there are games coming from other developers other than them, and Bethesda! Check out these upcoming games from Konami and more!  Buy Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova Edition - Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies. - Stardock Entertainment (Steam, available now) Whoa, Alan Wake II’s PC Requirements Aren’t Screwing Around -  Article by Kotaku Backpack Battles - The inventory management auto battler! Buy rare and legendary items to build powerful setups. Then battle other players with it. - PlayWithFurcifer (Steam, available April 2024, demo available now) Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth takes around 40 hours to beat, and you won't start from level 1 - Article by GamesRadar ENDLESS™ Dungeon - ENDLESS™ Dungeon is a Rogue-lite Tactical Action game, set in the award-winning ENDLESS™ Universe. Recruit a team of shipwrecked heroes, plunge into a long-abandoned space station, and protect your crystal against never-ending waves of monsters… or die trying, get reloaded, and try again. - AMPLITUDE Studios (Steam, available now) PS5 Slim Disc Drive Comes With Bizarre Online Requirements - Article by Kotaku Nvidia Could Be Working on New Arm-Based Processors for Windows - Article by GameRant Twitch allows simulcasting to it’s direct competitors! This means that, excluding partners with exclusivity clauses in their contract, Twitch streamers can now stream to platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Kick and more! This comes with some guidelines later posted in their Terms of Service.
THESE DEMOS ARE INSANE! STEAM NEXT FEST!
Oct 13 2023
THESE DEMOS ARE INSANE! STEAM NEXT FEST!
Unity’s CEO is out! The mills are aflutter with rumors of Titanfall 3! Rocket League isn’t allowing player trading any more! And apparently it’s 2009 all over again, because the Fall of the Lich King dropped for Wrath Classic today! Then on top of that we have some excellent video game previews thanks to Steam’s Next Fest! Unity CEO is Stepping Down Following Pricing Controversy - Article by GameRant Microsoft Reportedly Plans to Buy Activision Blizzard Next Week - Article by IGN Rocket League Will Ban Item Trading, Nuking Market For Secondhand Skins - Article by Kotaku Foundry - Build a factory in an infinite simulated voxel world. Mine resources, craft machinery and automate your research to progress. Face logistic challenges by planning and building a conveyor belt and pipe network. Manage a complex power system and expand your constantly growing production lines. - Channel 3 Entertainment (Steam, demo available now) Fall of the Lich King - World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King Classic: Fall of the Lich King is now LIVE! (Youtube Trailer) The Thamaturge - The Thaumaturge is a story-driven RPG with morally ambiguous choices, taking place in the culturally diverse world of early 20th century Warsaw. In this world, Salutors exist: esoteric beings that only Thaumaturges can truly perceive and use for their needs. - Fool’s Theory (Steam, demo available now) My Work is Not Yet Done - My Work Is Not Yet Done is a narrative-driven investigative horror game, combining elements of the survival/simulation genres with a dense, nonlinear plot exploring the imbrication and dissolution of human identities/meanings within uncanny wilderness. - Sutemi Productions (Steam, demo available now) Slime 3K - Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels. - Konfa Games (Steam, demo available now) Gunhead - Gunhead is a fast paced strategic roguelike FPS where you take the role of a pirate mech with a gun for a head, looting derelict spaceships filled with monstrous drones made out of bone and steel. Sequel to the 2d roguelite Cryptark. - Alientrap (Steam, demo available now) Enshrouded - ou are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players. - Keen Game GmbH (Steam, demo available now) The Last Exterminator - You're an exterminator. You kill things for a living. When a hostile invasion of alien cockroaches rocks your city, you've got a job to do. A high-octane retro-FPS inspired by some of the best games of the 90s - Ironworks Games (Steam, demo available now) Last Train Home - The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive. - Ashborne Games (Steam, demo available now)
MASSIVE XBOX LEAKS AND EVEN BIGGER MECHS
Sep 23 2023
MASSIVE XBOX LEAKS AND EVEN BIGGER MECHS
This week Phil Spencer has a massive leak on his hands, and thy name is XBOX. Unity is trying their best to climb out of the hole they dug themselves. Sony’s State of Play happened this week and we took our first look at the release trailer for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Then we talk about the recently released God of Weapons, a little more on Blasphemous 2, and then we talk about the revival of a beloved shooter franchise…Titanfall. Details on the XBOX leak Axios Engadget iPhone 15 plays modern titles natively with ray-tracing GameRant. Unity follow-up and their apology Kotaku Everything that happened at Sony State of Play September 2023 Digital Trends Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth trailer, and invite-only demo Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Release Trailer A Detailed Look at Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Gameplay Demos (Story, Combat, World & More) God of Weapons - Embark on a thrilling journey in God of Weapons, an action roguelike where you must ascend the tower of Zhor to reclaim the last light for the world. To survive the monster onslaught on each tower's level, you'll need to obtain and carefully organize weapons and accessories in your inventory. - Archmage Labs (Steam, available now) Blasphemous 2 - The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all. - The Game Kitchen (Steam, available now) They fixed Titanfall 2 and it's AMAZING!
IN UNITY AGAINST UNITY
Sep 15 2023
IN UNITY AGAINST UNITY
Unity has unified gamers, developers, and stock owners against them! The Sag Aftra strike might hit the video games industry! XDefiant is such a buggy mess that it failed it’s certifications for both Playstation and Xbox! We dredge up baby’s first C’Thulu story! Valve has some surprises and cheap games up it’s sleeves, and maybe a new VR headset! Then things get Blasphemous….2 Unity plan pricing and packaging updates - Unity Blog (edited after the podcast) Unity are in EXTREME Trouble - Deep dive by Bellular Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume - article by Axios   Video Game Workers Are Now Voting Whether to Strike Over AI, Wages - article by Vice Are Hollywood-Style “AI Strikes” Coming For The Video Game Industry? - article by Techopedia   Ubisoft’s XDefiant Gets Hit With a Delay After Failing Xbox and PlayStation Certification - article by GameRant   Dredge Review - video review by IGN’s Gabriel Moss Dredge - DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten. - Black Salt Games (Steam, available now)   Leaked Valve Device Is Likely Not the Steam Deck 2 - article by GameRant Steam Kicks Off Big Sale to Celebrate 20th Anniversary - article by GameRant   A Story Analysis of Blasphemous 2 - video by Gingy Blasphemous 2 - The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all. - The Game Kitchen (Steam, available now)