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Devolver have released a Let’s Play for robo-philosophical puzzler The Talos Principle 2 in which the Let’s Player is GLaDOS, nemesis of Valve’s Portal games, with which The Talos Principle has a few things in common. They’ve brought on original Portal voice actress Ellen McClain to narrate the footage, and the result is genuinely quite funny. As you’d expect, GlaDOS isn’t that impressed by Croteam’s work. I score this a 7/10 on the Hoot And/Or Holler scale.
Bloober Team and Konami’s forthcoming Silent Hill 2 remake will feature a playable origin story for Pyramid Head, according to a Best Buy listing. Specifically it says “fan favourite character, Pyramid Head, makes a return along with a special origin story for fans to play through.” That’s pretty much all she wrote, where the much vaunted “news-reporting” aspect of this news article is concerned. Now to spend several hundred words whining about why this is probably a terrible idea.
Sundays are for seeing lots of pals you’ve not seen in a while. Before you travel over, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things).
Overwatch 2‘s next hero is Mauga, a chaingun-loving tank that seems reminiscent of Team Fortress 2’s Heavy. He’s due to join the free-to-player shooter in Season 8 on December 5th, but you can also give him a go right now until November 5th in a limited-time trial.
Diablo 4‘s first expansion will arrive sometime late in spaceyear 2024, but it’s also a throwback to Diablo 2. That’s because Vessel Of Hatred is all about one of the Prime Evils, Mephisto, who auld players would have slain in that most-beloved of hack-and-slashers. It’s also going to add a new character class “never before seen in the Diablo universe.”
Many World Of Warcraft expansions add a new continent, but The War Within, announced at Blizzcon this weekend, is a little different. It’s set in a new subterranean world beneath Azeroth – and it kicks off a three-expansion story arc Blizzard are caling The Worldsoul Saga.
Remember remember the fifth of November, when either we celebrate someone being stopped from bursting the king or we celebrate someone trying. Sometimes I’m still not sure which. My head says thwarting, my heart says attempting. You wrap up warm, keep your pets safe, and enjoy the shmup particle effects. But what are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!
“The game is called Bloodthyrster X,” the nerd-coded detective explains, twisting in their ill-fitting suit and furiously shaking an upside-down Xbox controller while their colleagues stare aghast at a TV screen looping a three-second clip of shoddy CGI ultraviolence. “The objective is to run over babies in your minivan while shooting cops and other players. It’s taking over the dark web… and IRL.”
You don’t need me to tell you that fake video games appearing in TV shows and movies are typically absurd and terrible. But just because something is bad, doesn’t mean it’s uninteresting. Having watched dozens of movies and episodes with fake video games, I’m going to celebrate a few over the coming weeks. Some daft fake games have neat ideas, some shows portray their fake games in an interesting way, and some fake games are even quite good. Let’s start now with Deadware, an unknown horror movie which does a great job recreating something a bit bad: a spOooky haunted browser game from 1999.
Honkai: Star Rail has dropped a release date and details for its 1.5 update, taking the anime sci-fi RPG to a spooky new region with new events and three new characters along for the ride.
Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street, the influential developer with credits on both World of Warcraft and League of Legends – including the MOBA’s unreleased MMO – is working on a new MMORPG under his own studio.
