Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

“Huh.” This, as admiringly as I can make this sound, was the first thought I thunked when I put down the demo for Titanium Court. Here is a game that is many things. The first thing it is is a play, in perhaps a literal sense, perhaps as a tool to immediately allow one to suspend their sense of disbelief at everything that is about to follow. We’re watching a play, a narrative vehicle where anything can happen as long as what’s on stage is convincing enough to make us believe it’s happening. And truthfully, I’m still trying to wrap my head around what did happen.

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Remember Hyper Scape? I acknowledge that this might come across as a tad mean, but in this ridiculously fast-paced world we find in, it can genuinely be hard to remember one failed live service game from the next. For a refresher, this was Ubisoft’s attempt at a battle royale game back in 2020, though it didn’t pan out as it was shut down only a couple of years later. Well, anyway, it’s back! Sort of, not quite, but it might soon, or actually probably eventually, will be thanks to the efforts of a group of people hoping to revive it.

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I think that with a game like Crimson Desert, you’d be well within your right to have an eyebrow pre-raised considering its online, sort of free-to-play (depending on where you live) predecessor Black Desert Online regarding the like of microtransactions. I know I certainly have! At a glance Crimson Desert certainly looks like it could fall into similar pitfalls if only based on vibes alone. However! Developer Pearl Abyss would quite like you to know that, in that regard at least, you have nothing to worry about.

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Video game updates are an incredibly funny thing, mostly because I come from a time where they weren’t a thing at all, apart from the odd second printing that patched some things here and there. Which is why my humerus has been particularly tickled by the news that a new Assassin’s Creed Shadows has arrived today that, amongst a couple of other things, add in the ability to simply let you jump.

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I wake up at 3AM. Do 50 pull-ups on a halberd wedged in the door frame. Do 50 push-ups on the cold stone floor. A servant hands me my protein mead and a wine frappamachiato. I violently double fist the two beverages. I don’t eat breakfast, because food that isn’t flavourless cup gruel is the enemy of productivity. Then, I’m dressed in my robes for the commute to the throne room. The magic starts. It’s 5AM in Crusader Kings 3 and I’m on my medieval monarch grindset.

I pull out Paradox’s latest dev diary. Oh, look at that, they’re working with a mystery modder on bringing exactly the sort of big number tables to the strategy game that I need to tell at a glance whether I’m out-grinding my inbred wealth-creating cousins who rule other nations across the world.

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Well, this is cool. You can now download Unreal Tournament 2004 for free and with a patch that ensures it’ll run smoothly on modern hardware. This is all thanks to a fan community called OldUnreal, who’ve made it their mission to keep Epic’s classic shooters alive, even going as far as getting the Fortnite publishers’ permission to do so.

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While a lot of the Witchery chatter so far this year has been about an extra Witcher 3 DLC rumoured to be in the works, one of the projects we know for sure CD Projekt have on the go is a remake of the first Witcher game. Ahead of the remake’s arrival, a key dev on the 2007 RPG has just finished a developer commentary run through it, which makes for a great way to pass some time between Witchery things.

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As feared, the recent uptick in Steam Decks being noted as out of stock is down to the ongoing memory crisis. RAM prices have been driven through the roof by AI companies gobbling up memory sticks en-masse, with the other downside of that being the tech’s very scarce at the moment. Cue companies like Valve stuggling to keep on securing as much as they need to make and sell hardware without interruption.

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Creative Assembly have just detailed Total War: Warhammer 3’s first character pack, these being “smaller, focused content drops built around a single character with their own unique feature, supported by a handful of exciting new units”, priced (in this case) at £3.99, $4.99 or €4.99 apiece.

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Fuse Games’ take on offroad speeder rushes in a galaxy far, far, away, sounds more and more up my alley every time I hear about it. That’s no different in a freshly published interview with Fuse founder Matt Webster and creative director Kieran Crimmins, which sees the pair chat about boost mechanics which sound a lot like the environmental temperature-sensitive system from PS3 racer Motorstorm: Pacific Rift.

The pair also made some interesting points when asked why they went for a more traditional track racer rather than an open world one with this game, and whether the latter’s reached a point where it’s a bit of a stale concept.

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