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Ubisoft have reportedly offered a corporate spin on the backlash Assassin’s Creed Shadows faced from right-wing grifters prior to release, with CEO Yves Guillemot framing it as “a battle with our fans, to demonstrate that we were, in fact, more of a video game than a message”. The company also seem to be trying to canonise the events as some kind of masterful marketing victory, which arguably isn’t too surprising, even if the fact they’re not trying to pretend the controversy never happened is.
Oi, gaffer! I know you’re busy trying to work out the exact moment at which we should park the bus and start unleashing the long throw-ins, but you’ll probably want to know about the chunky patch Football Manager 26 devs Sports Interactive have released into Steam beta. It’s aimed at fixing a lit of the initial issues which’ve been causing ire since release earlier this week.
There is perhaps no better setting than some woods or a forest that just sucks ass. Just a confusing, scary, maybe sometimes enchanting mess of nature that is impossible to navigate. Today’s latest update for Peak just so happens to present such a visage, with towering, beautiful trees, and yet again a wonderful sense of scale.
Throughout my time playing Hollow Knight: Silksong, I mostly didn’t actually miss the first game’s not-so-titular Knight. I do love that bug, it’s just Hornet made for quite a compelling protagonist (even if I think that the game has a number of issues that go further than just it being potentially unfairly hard). I doubt this will be a universal feeling however, which is where this handy mod where you can once again play as the Knight, but in Silksong, comes into play.
There are many words that could be said, and I’ll attempt to say a few of them here, on the gamification of both menial labour and tasks, but it is always fascinating to me when a new game crops up that somehow makes me go “oh, sure, why not!” Today that applies to a game called Leaf Blower Co., which is a simulation game about exactly what you’d expect (blowing leaves) and I suppose not what you expect (blowing paper boats and coconuts).
It has not been a good time for Simmers recently, and that’s not even touching the recent controversial private buyout that has led to a creator exodus. The Sims 4, for a while now, has been riddled with bugs that simply make it difficult to play, prompting Maxis to outline a quality of life roadmap in September. Part of said roadmap was delivered yesterday in a big update that introduced more than 150 community-voted fixes, as well as some free goodies!
I called out sliding as one of my favourite aspects of Arc Raiders in a launch-day write-up. It lends the looter shooter a gambolling giddiness you might not expect from its heavily laden packmule characters. In more practical terms, it makes you harder to hit and allows you to flank or retreat while regenerating stamina, the catch being that you might slide into somewhere you’d rather not be, like directly beneath a bunch of Hornets.
After a few hours spent doing migrant penguin impressions in Buried City and Blue Gate, a thought occurred: hang on, this is almost like the hypermobile ski shooting in Tribes: Ascend. I mean, not really, but perhaps if they made friction a setting on custom servers, this crouch-walking pillage ’em up could be a bona fide movement shooter.
Like an asteroid touching down in a freshly shaken martini, Europa Universalis 5 is now available on Steam, and some players have been having trouble playing it. I don’t mean the people who don’t understand inflation or why they can’t make friends with Greenland. I mean the people who can’t even get the new 4X strategy game to launch, because their PCs are too pitifully puny for this behemoth of history. Don’t fret, those people. The hardware Popes at Paradox are blessing your meagre graphics cards with a sneaky workaround.
Awooga, awooga, the bomb’s about to be dropped. Well, the anniversary edition update for Fallout 4‘s about to arrive at any rate. As with its next-gen predecessor, the question is how it might affect whatever established mod load order you’ve got in place. Helpfully, Bethesda have now specified any mods which change the game’s home screen as ones you’ll certainly want to disable ahead of the update’s arrival.
That’s right, time to kiss farewell to the image of Paladin Danse in a risque pose you’ve had lurking behind the start new game button. At least temporarily.
In ‘Yeahhh, probably should have had that already’ news, the Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED are getting a new low-power mode that will let the handheld PCs continue any active downloads with the display switched off. It’s part of a SteamOS update that’s available right now on the Beta and Preview channels, at last closing a longstanding feature gap that’s had us all downloading games to our Decks with the screens chewing up precious battery life. Like savages.
