Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

PlayStation’s bigwigs are content to stick with their current approach to multiplatform releases for now, making it unlikely we’re going to see a sudden switch to day-and-date PC ports of Sony’s big single-player games anytime soon.

SlayPtation have been bringing their studios’ multiplayer and live-service games to PC at release for a while now, it making sense with the likes of Helldivers 2 and, er, Concord, to try and ensure the maximum potential player base possible right out of the gate. On the other hand, for single player stuff like God of War Ragnarok and Ghost of Tsushima they’ve been content to wait a year to bring over to the other video game boxes.

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If you pine for the rotting corridors and tactical limb-surgery of Dead Space, it looks like Bloober’s upcoming Cronos: The New Dawn may have you covered. Fresh from revealing that they’re remaking the first Silent Hill, the Polish team have released a new trailer for Cronos that shows off more of its bubble-suited third-person gunnery.

In particular, it spotlights the Merge mechanic, whereby guttural tendril beasts known as Orphans devour the corpses of their brethren to enhance their abilities. It’s implied that they can do this more than once, so be sure to clean up after yourself. As in so many other walks of life, punctual incineration may be the cure.

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There aren’t many games lately which have compelled me to do a tweet, or skeet, or whatever you prefer to call ejaculating one’s thoughts out onto the socials. The Trolley Solution‘s Steam Next Fest demo not only did that, it convinced me to post a tweet I didn’t even write.

It’s a game from indie dev byDanDans that starts off as a series of moral quandaries, each inspired by philosopher Philippa Foot’s famous and now also thoroughly memed-to-death Trolley Problem. That being a thought experiment which forces you examine the ethics of either letting nature take its course to deliver one outcome that could cause harm to others, or actively intervening to cause another that might do the same in a different fashion. I didn’t go in expecting to become enraptured in what I can only describe as a tragic rail romance.

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Good news, people who’re still interested in giving MindsEye a go for reasons that don’t involve gleefully watching as a poor NPC undergoes a sudden glitchy elongation. Developers Build A Rocket Boy have just pushed out the first in a series of updates designed to swat a bunch of the performance and crash-related issues that’ve plagued the game’s launch.

If you were busy with other hobbies such as arctic exploration or hardcore spelunking earlier this week, the GTA/Cyberpunky Mindseye suffered a pretty nightmarish debut. The user reviews weren’t totally negative right out of the gate, but it’s fair to say it didn’t land in the fashion ex-Rockstar bigwig Leslie Benzies’ studio probably hoped.

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Right, put your hands on the table. Please. I won’t ask again. Thank you. Stellar Blade arrived on PC as of June 11th, and naturally that’s brought a new lease of life the the modding community who’d only had a demo to play with up until that point. Around 40% of the game’s mods over on the Nexus right now are a bit risqué, so we’ve done you a favour and picked out the three filthiest on offer.

Don’t feel you have to thank us. Well, me. This is all part of the job description, alongside all of the holding power to account and providing a service to the consumer stuff. Odds are my Pulitzer’s already in the post.

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If you’re desperate for some company of a non-Adoring Fan kind as you run around Cyrodiil in Oblivion Remastered, odds are the base game’ll leave you wanting. Enter a new mod, which adds in a beast master system that’ll let you tame a furry or scaly pet.

After all, one could argue you’ve not really experienced Tamriel unless you’re having to stop after every fight to give your precious wild boar Bobo some heal minor wounds-infused tummy tickles

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Okay, now, I know you’ve probably read that headline and thought to yourself “why on earth would outdated UI in Silent Hill f be a good thing?” Allow me to explain! To be a contrarian for a moment, I think that a large amount of triple-A games have incredibly boring UI. It’s very much because of that late 2010s trend of simple, emboss-free graphic design you see in logo design everywhere these days, and I hate it.

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I feel like every time I write about shooters, I always have to add a caveat along the lines of, “I don’t really like shooters… but!” There often is a but, because occasionally one of ’em rolls around that feels like it just gets me, you know? This week, it’s a shooter that feels like it was born to be a Flash game on Newgrounds in the mid-2000s that you’ll sometimes bring up to your friends saying “man, remember that one game?” It’s called Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion, and as simple as its title is, there’s a lot going for it.

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Despite having received a plethora of updates, bits of DLC, and expansion packs over the course of the past 11 years, there are still things that featured in The Sims 3 that The Sims 4 is yet to receive. Seriously, The Sims 4 has been supported for twice the length of time The Sims 3 was, and yet it’s only this year that it’s getting a pack that features fairies. They’ll be coming in the just announced Enchanted by Nature pack, which includes a bit more than just a new supernatural designation for your Sims.

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There are two reasons you shouldn’t watch the trailer for Still Wakes the Deep’s just announced DLC Siren’s Rest. The first is that, well, it’ll probably spoil at least some of the events of the base game given that the expansion is set more than a decade on. The other is for the subset of you that have just the worst case of submechanophobia, because the trailer is absolutely full of man-made objects under water. You’ve been warned, don’t come crying to me if you don’t heed me, I’ll just say I told you so.

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