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Gosh, can you believe it? It’s already the 35th anniversary of Ruin! It came out before I was born, but even I’m feeling the passage of time with this one. With such a momentous occasion upon us, a special 35th anniversary edition of the legendary RPG has been released by its developer Official Electric, split across just four floppy disks… except, well, you’ve definitely already clocked that Ruin isn’t quite real. At least not in the way it’s been presented.
Let’s get something real clear here right off the bat: I couldn’t possibly tell you if Team Cherry are planning to make any more Hollow Knight games. That isn’t to say there isn’t more Hollow Knight on the way, as Silksong will be getting… something, at some point, in the future. However! Studio heads William Pellen and Ari Gibson have at least floated a hypothetical idea around how the world of Hollow Knight might get bigger.
I think miHoYo might just have a bit too much money. Somehow, they have yet another game on the way called Varsapura, yet another anime-looking, open-world action game, this time by way of psychic mishappenings. As many have pointed out, there’s a vague Control-like quality to it, at least in its newly shown off, lengthy gameplay demo.
Hytale has had a bit of a rough go of it, given how it’s been in the works for a decade, still isn’t finished, and was unceremoniously cancelled. Not to worry though, as it’s back! And it’s in the hands of its developer’s original co-founders. With the announcement that Hytale will live on, it was also noted that the game’s pricing would be revealed soon, and soon it was as it’s already been confirmed.
It’s been 10 years since Fatshark’s Warhammer Tide years kicked off, starting with Warhammer: End times – Vermintide, and to celebrate that anniversary the developer has been offering up various in-game events and updates in both Vermintide 2 and Darktide. Earlier this week Vermintide 2 received a free new level, a point we’ll come back to, but the big thing you should know first is that you can pick up the co-op dark fantasy game for free on Steam right now, and keep it forever.
Can a ship be a horse archer? This is one of the many maritime musings Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord‘s devs had to grapple with when putting together the flotilla of vessels which make up its naval warfare-themed War Sails expansion.
Ahead of War Sails’ release on November 26th, I chatted to a couple of its developers. Naturally, I was keen to hear about what the process of assembling the expansion’s armada. A particular challenge as each of Calradia’s historically-inspired nations has access to unique ships.
Seasons of Solitude is a soulful balance of survival game and turn-based strategy about an exiled prehistoric tribesman who is trying not to trash his own habitat. It’s the work of Estonian developers Ninjarithm Studio, and is based on Estonian myths.
There’s a demo on Steam, which I’ve spent barely any time with, but this seems Interesting – Interesting enough that I wanted to get a write-up in front of you before the weekend. Please disregard the rapid-fire editing of the trailer below: it works as an overview of the mechanics, but doesn’t really convey the sleepy pensiveness of the actual game.
Krafton have revealed PUBG spin-off Black Budget, just in time for alpha testing of the extraction shooter to kick off next month. As you might expect given the genre, this latest work from PUBG Studios is all about getting out of the bad vibe zone in good time, after shooting some baddies in said zone. Oh, sorry, tactically shooting some baddies in the bad vibe zone.
If Ubisoft’s rumoured Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag remake were an actual ghost ship, we’d be long past the point of snatching glimpses of the vessel through unnaturally dense fog at two bells during the morning watch. We’d be long past the point of spotting a spectral Jolly Roger between stormy crests, its deathshead wreathed in St. Elmo’s Fire. The damn ghost ship is square abreast of us now, the hollow-cheeked revenant of Edward Kenway dangling from the rigging.
People keep pointing at the ghost ship and screaming, but Captain Ubisoft has his eyes firmly on the horizon. “Steady as she goes, lads!” he trills, as hordes of translucent pirates pour over the rail. “Steady as she goes till some hypothetical future time when we might announce a thing, maybe!”
It’s fair to say Fallout 4‘s anniversary update’s earned some stick due to effect it had on PC mods, just like the RPG’s next-gen update did before it. Lots of works needed updating, and while that happened pretty quickly in a number of cases, there was still disruption for some additions that generally feel a lot more necessary over on console.
Enter modding platform Nexus Mods, who’ve decided to follow-up the update by putting together their own “anniversary collection” of Fallout 4 mods from the works they host, with hopes it’ll serve as a free alternative aimed at celebrating ten years of the RPG being modded.
