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Electronic Arts have opened a new studio called Cliffhanger Games to work on a game starring Marvel superhero Black Panther. They don’t have much to say or show yet but EA describe the untitled project as a “third-person, singleplayer” game set in an “expansive and reactive” version of Wakanda, the futuristic kingdom that Black Panther calls home.
Capcom and Square Enix were both recently asked about whether more remasters and remakes were planned in the future. Both publishers gave non-committal responses but we know more redos/reimaginings/remakes are coming. Of course they are. Seemingly every publisher under the sun is onboard the remake train and it’s only a matter of time before your favourite game gets a nostalgic refresh. So, dear readers, what older games would you like to see return?
Halo is a series where you explore ancient places and uncover secrets left behind by an alien civilisation of engineers, so it’s fitting that developers 343 Industries and modding team Digsite have been doing a bit of Halo excavation of their own in real life. Over the weekend, Halo’s community team posted a new blog post detailing the results of a year-long partnership with Digsite to restore lost features from Halo’s cutting room floor to the Master Chief Collection – including never-before-seen maps and weapons from the archives of Halo: Combat Evolved, as well as some vehicles from the series’ earliest days as a third-person shooter and real-time strategy game.
Over the past two years, a slew of game publishers have announced plans to intergrate the blockchain and NFTs into future projects. Sega were among them, registering a trademark last year for Sega NFTs.
Now Sega co-chief operating officer Shuji Utsumi says they’ll keep their biggest series away from the blockchain, and called play-to-earn games “boring.”
Magic martial arts, grapple hooks and rooftop-hopping make Naraka: Bladepoint one of the best battle royales on PC. Now it’s going free-to-play next week on Thursday, July 13th.
Yuji Naka, the co-creator of Sonic The Hedgehog, has been found guilty of insider trading. The former Sega and Square Enix developer has been given a suspended sentence of two years and six months, and ordered to pay two fines totalling ¥173 million (around £948,000).
Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin‘s open beta is live now. You’ve got until July 10th if you want to give the Stormcast Eternals or the Orruk Kruleboyz a spin in Frontier’s real-time strategy game.
Gaze ye upon the latest edition of our best Anti-Prime Day deals guide: RPS’ annual attempt to make Amazon Prime Day a little less, uhhh, Amazony, while keeping to the theme of highlighting choice savings on PC gaming hardware. Fancy a bargain SSD, gaming monitor or graphics card, but are steadfast in your refusal to pay for Jeffy B’s third yacht? You’re in the right place.
At last, a game to unite Graham, Ollie, and me in a triumvirate of absolute dorks. Mars First Logistics is a game about designing little moon rover buggies to pick things up and drive them to somewhere else.
If you looked at it and went “ooh”, your coo lobe was right. “Design a vehicle” games are often too fiddly and/or competition-oriented for me, and trucking games too businesslike and grounded. This threads the needle beautifully. It’s challenging, but gently, prioritising an approachable design and smooth controls without sacrificing the satisfaction of solving a decent engineering puzzle. It’s even pretty, so that even plain driving back and forth is pleasant and rewarding.
I was gone but now am here again to join my co-hosts on this week’s Electronic Wireless Show podcast, much like the hundreds and hundreds of of hours of interviews, press briefings and old presentations salvaged by Noclip and heaved onto YouTube. We were going to talk about children’s games this week, but given the game for children I was going to talk about was once Stadia exclusive Gylt it seemed a time to talk about the precariousness of digital media a bit (and also make James explain Stadia).
We’ve all been playing a few games here and there, and most of them are current, with Nate still very enthusiastic about being a dinosaur. James comes with more beans to the hardware altar, and we all have some slightly weird suggestions for your recommendations. Plus, because Liam is actually away this week, I made a special effort to pay attention to audio levels and reduce background noise because I’ve seen ye all complaining about when I have to edit the podcast and I’m sick of it.
