Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Indiescovery is recorded a week before we release it, and never has this small time delay been more apparant than in our latest episode. Last week the temperature in the UK was (pardon my french) bonkers boiling. As we are professionals we recorded this episode with all of our windows closed and our fans turned off in order to avoid any unwanted background noise. Choosing to do this while sat in a British house during a heatwave actually violates several human rights laws, and we’ve all since been arrested for crimes against ourselves.

Oh, we also talk about our favourite indies from this year’s Not-E3, which probably highlights the slight time delay more than the heat thing because in video game industry terms Not-E3 may as well have taken place 30 years ago. But listen, indie games are always relevant, aren’t they? Plus I got to do a bit where I pretended to be a games executive in the intro so as far as I’m concerned it all worked out well in the end.

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Free-to-play extraction shooter The Cycle: Frontier is shutting down servers and going offline on September 27th, developers Yager have announced. “Despite our best efforts and meaningful improvements brought to the game since launch,” they wrote in a Steam blog post, “the reality is that The Cycle: Frontier is unfortunately not financially viable,” leading to the game’s shutdown twelve months after launch.

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I like to think I’m good at picking passwords. The real secret is to not pick passwords, it’s to let software generate passwords for you, but I think I can pick a memorable yet secure password when required to. Well, I thought that until I played The Password Game, a free game you can play in your web browser. You simply need to pick a password which meets its rules, but it keeps introducing more and more which become sillier and sillier. It’s a good joke and grows into quite a tricky puzzle game too. Plus it’s free!

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Death maze construction shooter Meet Your Maker is now free to play until July 3rd to celebrate the release of its first major content drop. Entitled Sector 1: Dreadshore, the big free update adds a new coastal location that has an appropriately grim lighthouse in it. It also doubles up as a research facility used to experiment on prisoners, which sounds like the perfect place to build hard-to-enter mazes.

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Among Us took the world by storm at the perfect time: when we were all stuck inside and paranoid about Imposters (family members) betraying us (swiping the last bit of edible food out of the fridge). Now, the hit multiplayer game will infiltrate the world of television, as developer Innersloth have teamed up with CBS’ animation crew to work on a new series based on the game.

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Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty got a new trailer and a release date during this month’s Xbox Games Showcase. If you watched Xbox’s extended showcase a few days later then you would have seen more of the game and of one of its stars, Keanu Reeves.

Let’s assume you didn’t watch that, though. Let’s assume that you, like me, were by that point too exhausted from 90 second trailers to tune in. Let’s instead watch these videos now, since they’ve just been uploaded as separate videos, to learn more about Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’s new district, Dogtown.

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Project Rene – aka The Sims 5 – seems a long way off, but that isn’t stopping Maxis from showing the game in its early, in-development state. The second episode of their community stream, Behind The Sims, continues from the first by showing lots of different prototype features, including glimpses of a new lighting model, new emotive animations, daily routines, hair customisation and more.

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Diablo 4‘s first major patch, 1.0.3, is out now. It fixes a lot of bugs, but its main goal is to re-balance and buff every class and to “smooth out the leveling experience” by increasing the power of certain skills.

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Prime Day 2023 is scheduled to kick-off in mid-July, but we’re already seeing some awesome deals on speedy Micro SD cards ahead of the big day. One that caught my eye today is the Kingston Canvas Go! Plus, which is available in a 256GB size for just £17.85 – down from an original price of £30!

For context, that’s just £1 more than Samsung’s Evo Plus SD card of the same size, yet you get maximum read speeds of 170MB/s compared to 130MB/s. That’s 30% more, and well worth the extra quid!

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Following phenomenally frightful survival horror game Darkwood, Polish team Acid Wizard Studio are now making… a football game? They’ve just released a free public alpha for Soccer Kids, inviting everyone to try their turn-based tactical footie game starring schoolkids in 90s Poland. This is extremely not what I expected next from the studio whose debut game made Adam backtrack to kill his own dog “because the world is convincing and I didn’t want to leave suffering animals lying around the place if I didn’t have to.” Come watch the trailer.

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